UKTV G2 simulcast the BBC's live matches, including the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica, England 's game with Paraguay and the final. The channel also showed highlights of every match in the tournament.

UKTV G2 (now known as Dave) was originally launched on October 1, 1998 as UK Gold Classics, becoming the first digital-only UKTV channel. It was a part-time service that aired the channel's older programmes during weekends.

The main aim for the closure was to coincide of the rebranding of UKTV G2 as Dave, which would allow the channel to broadcast on Freeview. It would also allow Dave's timeshift service to expand to 24 hours, which it wasn't able to do as UKTV G2, due to Bright Ideas sharing the same EPG bandwidth on Sky and Virgin Media.

On 8 March 2004, all UKTV channels adopted the UKTV name; thus UK G² became UKTV G2. On 15 October 2007, UKTV G2 was relaunched as Dave, as part of a major rebranding of UKTV's channels, where every channel would get a distinct name. The tagline for the new channel was "the home of witty banter".

A one-hour timeshifted service of the channel – then known as UKTV G2 – began to operate on 1 November 2004, under the name UKTV G2 +1. As UKTV G2 at the time was a primetime service, the timeshift also operated in the evenings only, using the satellite and cable capacity which, during daytime, was used by the now-defunct UKTV Bright Ideas .

UK Gold Classics was rebranded as UK Gold 2 on 2 April 1999, which acted as a time shift of the original channel, showing the daytime programmes from UK Gold in the evening on UK Gold 2. In November 2003 it was relaunched as UKG2, a new channel aimed at a younger audience, with an emphasis on Comedy.

2007年10月15日 · Contacts and information for U&Dave, the television channel in the UK, including postal address, email and telephone numbers.

This was the Day Before UK Gold 2 became UK G2 then UKTV G2 now simply known as Dave ...more.

Along with the rest of the UKTV network, the "UK" prefix was changed to "UKTV" on 8th March 2004 and is thus now known as UKTV G2. The continuity announcers have been known to make fun of the extreme length of the full name saying "it's for watching rather than saying"

2007年10月14日 · With Dave starting the following day, the UKTV network closed down UKTV G2 on 14/10/2007. I don't know the time this was taken.INCLUDES:Dave Launch Promo - 0...