Freeview is the Free-To-Air digital terrestrial platform in the UK.
Jun 23 2016
The BBC has announced it intends to speed up the adoption of the interactive TV standard HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) in the UK, moving away from the MHEG-based system that’s powered its digital text and traditional red button services since the launch of digital terrestrial TV. As part of its plan, it intends to […]
May 30 2016
Country music channel Keep It Country has announced it will be joining on Freeview from the June 1st, marking a further expansion for the channel which first launched on Sky in January, followed by Freesat at the beginning of March. The channel has been allocated Freeview channel 87, with transmissions due to start on Wednesday, […]
May 6 2016
The BBC says it’s found a solution to the sound problem that has been affecting some Freeview HD users. There have been reports by some Freeview HD viewers of sound dropouts on certain Freeview HD channels. Devices from Samsung and Toshiba were prone to the sound problem, this affected most of the PSB HD channels, […]
Apr 28 2016
Channel 5 HD has started testing on Freeview ahead of an imminent launch, which sees the service coming from behind the paywall and available to all HD viewers for the first time. Test transmissions started earlier yesterday, with the channel occupying capacity on the national BBC-owned Freeview HD multiplex (PSB3), which already carries the other […]
Apr 13 2016
Ofcom has agreed to requests from five local TV services to adjust their programme commitments, as specified in their broadcast licences. The requests from Birmingham’s Big Centre TV, London Live, That’s Manchester, That’s Oxford and That’s Solent will reduce the amount of ‘first run’ programmes on the channels. Birmingham On Big Centre TV, the number […]
Apr 12 2016
A recent announcement from Ofcom reveals that complaints on the picture and sound quality of standard definition on DTT are now non-existent. With the regulator not receiving a single complaint in the last three years. As the regulator reviews its Broadcast TV Technical Codes, it also explained that the commercial PSBs offering a simulcast HD […]
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Jul 25 2016
BBC Olympics on Freeview
The BBC has begun re-configuring its services on Freeview ahead of the 2016 Olympics, which start in Rio next week. Ahead of changes to three of its regular HD channels, which are due to occur on 27th July, additional Red Button streams are now available to around 70-75% of UK households and found between channels […]
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By Expat • BBC, Freeview • Tags: BBC Red Button, Freeview, HD, Rio Olympics