Jul 25 2016
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 […]
Jun 29 2016
Vintage TV has left the Freesat satellite platform. The removal of the channel from Freesat comes just before Vintage TV is due to launch on Freeview channel 86. Vintage TV, previously available on Freesat 505, and specialising in older music videos and performances was dropped from the free-to-air satellite service this week without any prior warning […]
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 18 2016
A+E Networks UK (a joint venture between A+E Networks and Sky) is to launch a new FTA entertainment channel in the UK this autumn on Freeview, following a long-term DTT capacity deal with UK digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplex operator SDN. The channel name and content line-up will be revealed later this summer. This deal […]
May 2 2016
Sky have announced that Channel 5 HD (171/105) will be going free-to-air tomorrow May 3rd 2016. Once encryption has been removed, Channel 5 HD will no longer be part of Sky’s entertainment pack and will be available to all Sky HD viewers in the UK. Viewers in the Republic of Ireland will be able to […]
Apr 27 2016
The free-to-air launch of Channel 5 HD appears to have moved a step closer, although no announcement has yet been made by Channel 5 or parent company Viacom. Channel 5 obtained a licence for its HD channel on Freeview a while ago, now the station has begun transmitting Freesat programme data alongside its still encrypted […]
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 […]
Mar 31 2016
UK communications regulator, Ofcom, announced that the 700 MHz spectrum band – currently used for digital terrestrial television and wireless microphones – would be repurposed for mobile data services. Disruption to DTT viewers is agreed to be kept to a minimum, and Ofcom explain that the vast majority of viewers will only need to retune […]
Mar 22 2016
True Crime has launched on Freeview, Sky and Freesat. True Crime and True Crime+1 have replaced More>Movies and More>Movies+1 on Sky and Freesat. You can find True Crime and +1 on Sky channels 185 and 186 and Freesat channels 143 and 156. More>Movies is now no longer available on satellite, it was a simulcast of the […]
Mar 18 2016
ITV3+1 is changing its broadcast hours on Freeview at the end of March, as part of some technical changes that are taking place on Wednesday 30th March. ITV3+1 (channel 34) will revert back to broadcasting from 6pm until midnight, undoing a recent change which saw its broadcast hours extended through the night. Children’s channel CITV […]
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Jul 28 2016
Talking Pictures on Local TV
Classic film channel Talking Pictures has signed a deal with two local TV operators, which will see the channel’s vintage movies available to a wider audience from 1st August. As part of the deal, Latest TV Brighton and Bay TV Swansea’s daytime schedules will feature up to 10 hours of classic films from Talking Pictures […]
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By Expat • UK Media News • Tags: Freeview, Local TV, Talking Pictures