Mar 12 2006
ITV has launched its brand new children’s channel, CiTV, on Freeview. The channel will not be carried on Sky Digital until May – but currently sits exclusively on Freeview channel 75. It is timeshared with ITV4 and Setanta Sports, and broadcasts from 6am to 6pm, except when Setanta Sports has a pay-per-view programme. CiTV is […]
Feb 9 2006
Channel 4 has confirmed plans to relaunch FilmFour as a free-to-view channel in July. The move, which will give Freeview, the UK’s free-to-view digital terrestrial platform, its first movie channel, follows negotiations with BSkyB. FilmFour will also become a free channel on Sky’s digital satellite platform, and on cable. Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan is […]
Jan 22 2006
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has asked the government to give the broadcaster free space on Freeview to allow it to launch more channels, rather than a lump cash sum. The Times reports that Channel 4 is concerned that it will struggle to make a profit in the digital age unless the government steps […]
Jan 16 2006
Ofcom engineers are investigating how a faulty Freeview set-top box could have triggered an RAF air-sea rescue mission. The set-top box in Portsmouth apparently generated a Mayday signal identical to that used by emergency beacons, and was picked up on January 5 by satellite and forwarded to RAF Kinloss in Scotland. From there coastguards on […]
Jan 5 2006
Nickelodeon is to launch a new pre-school block on Freeview via music station TMF, Broadcast reports today. Airing daily between 7am and 9am from the end of the month, the strand will be branded ‘Noggin’, the name of Nickelodeon’s pre-school channel in the US. Programmes will include pre-school favourites Dora the Explorer and Thomas the […]
Mar 7 2005
Broadcaster Crown Castle has found room on one of its multiplexes to allow the launch of a further new channel on Freeview. The same compression techniques as used onm multiplex D will be applied to multiplex C to make way for a new 18-hour channel. ITV and Channel 4 are among the front-runners bidding to […]
Feb 13 2005
The ITV News Channel looks set to reappear on Freeview this Spring. According to a Sky Viewers Enquiries helpline, the channel will resume in the Central region in mid March; Granada, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees in mid April; Meridian, Anglia, HTV West and HTV Wales in mid-May; Scottish and Grampian in late May; Ulster in […]
Feb 2 2005
ITV2 and ITV3 have performed better than expected on Freeview and, in terms of audience share, the platform has been better for them than either satellite or cable television.
Jan 24 2005
Five million British homes now have Freeview, according to official figures from the BBC, Sky and Crown Castle – its joint owners. The jump in figures come after approximately 190,000 set-top boxes were sold in each of the two weeks before Christmas.
Jan 24 2005
ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five and Disney are among the broadcasters vying to launch a new channel this Spring on Freeview. Crown Castle, one of the three partners in the digital terrestrial service, is freeing up some of its multiplex space to enable a new channel to launch as soon as April. Crown owns two […]
Jan 17 2005
Teachers’ TV, a new channel for teachers, is to launch on February 8. Run by the Department for Education and Skills, the channel will provide advice, news and information to a range of teachers – including head teachers, newly qualified teachers, governors and support staff. Teachers’ TV will be on air 24 hours a day […]
UKTV stays on satellite until the end of the decade
CITV: Children’s TV channel will close in September
That’s TV secures licence for That’s Cinema
BBC Radio 4 begins information campaign to transition listeners from Long Wave
Sky News launches international audio service
ITVX Kids launching in Summer 2023
CNN launches new FAST channel in Europe
More organisations join crusade to protect terrestrial television and radio
Channel launches and updates on Freeview
ITV announces closure of CITV
Apr 20 2006
Ofcom clears the way for pay TV on Freeview
Media regulator Ofcom has cleared the way for pay TV channels to be carried on the digital terrestrial TV service, Freeview, overturning access restrictions that until now have allowed only subscription-free channels to be carried on the platform. The move means that subscription-based channels such as Sky One, MTV, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel can […]
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By Expat • UK Media News • Tags: Freeview, Ofcom, Pay TV