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NEWS: East Asia Television Channel Launching 2014 Including Anime

Its content will be dubbed and subtitled, with the option to choose between those formats on newer content.

Oh it's on sky...

You Brits are averse to anything foreign (ie. beyond the Anglosphere). There's a world of French cinema just over the Channel but Brits are only interested in American box office crap. Maybe this is why anime didn't catch on in the UK and the country missed out on Haruism, its seen as foreign here even though its dubbed in Eigo.

I don't think the fact that Brits don't like anything foreign is the problem. A lot if people seen anime as another cartoon which they like to being children's shows. This probably wasn't helped my the fact that animes like Dragonball and Naruto were shown on Cartoon Network, which is aimed at a younger audience. I remember Ghost in a Shell the series was shown on some obscure (possibly anime) channel on sky but not much else was shown on there and it was randomly placed within sky's tv channels. The fact that we are a fairly lazy country in terms of languages helps.

I don't think that the American box office can be called crap when your trying to state that us Brits don't like foreign shows, when that itself is a foreign product.

WHAT IS EAST ASIA TELEVISION?
It's a brand new television channel, that's what!
Okay maybe a little more elaboration, East Asia Television (Or EATV for short) specialises in Japanese, Chinese and Korean Media (though from launch our schedules will be full of animé goodness from classics to indie animations).
OH! And we'll be showing films, sport, music, lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, concerts, festivals, and simulcast events in a variety of mediums!