Nov 2 2016
ITV has confirmed that it will be launching three new HD regional versions on the 24th November for viewers with Sky and Freesat. Sky and Freesat viewers in the South West and West of England and in the Borders will see the current ITV HD service replaced by a more appropriate version for their area […]
Oct 11 2016
ITV is preparing to launch more HD versions of ITV HD by the end of the year. The move will enable viewers on satellite to see a more localised version of ITV, and will make at least one sub-region from each of the main ITV regions in England and Wales vailable in HD. In the […]
Mar 18 2016
ITV is set to launch three new regions in HD on Sky and Freesat at the end of March, though Freeview and Virgin Media users will need to wait a while longer. On 31st March 2016, technical changes will take place on satellite allowing ITV to launch HD variants of ITV Anglia (East), ITV Yorkshire […]
Mar 3 2016
ITV has started testing more ITV HD regions on satellite, which are expected to be made available to viewers later in the year. Test streams of ITV HD Yorkshire and ITV HD Tyne Tees in HD are now broadcasting, bringing the current total of ITV regions testing in HD on satellite to three, following the […]
Aug 11 2015
ITV Cymru Wales will broadcast its news and programmes in HD from August 25. ITV Wales moved to a new HD-capable HQ in June 2014. The current ITV HD service from transmitters in Wales (on Freeview channel 103) will become ITV Cymru Wales HD. Viewers in Wales watching via Sky, Freesat and Cable will also […]
Jul 11 2015
Sunday July 12 2015 on ITV from 9:00pm to 10:00pm (UK) First in a three-part series which sees Joanna Lumley travel the 6,400-mile route from Hong Kong to Moscow. Joanna begins her train journey in Hong Kong, which she last visited when she was four. She has not been to Moscow since 1966, when she […]
Mar 27 2014
ITV has added two further HD regions to the Freesat platform, with the additions of the Central (West) and Meridian (SE) variants on channel 119. Previously, viewers in the south and the Midlands received ITV HD London, one of just two HD regions on Freesat. With all four ITV HD regions now available, Freesat can provide the […]
Feb 7 2014
ITV HD services have begun moving to the Astra 2F satellite. This is part of ITV’s plan to move all existing versions of ITV HD regions together. ITV HD versions for the Central (West) and Meridian (SE) regions have moved from Astra 1N to Astra 2F, frequency 11097 Vertical. ITV HD Central and Meridian have […]
Jan 14 2013
ITV has today re-branded its entire output. As part of the changes, the main channel became “ITV”, losing the “1” the channel acquired back in 2001 when other ITV branded services were launching. Coming just over two years after the launch of ITV1+1, the timeshift channel became ITV+1 and the main HD channel became ITV […]
Dec 2 2009
Freeview has commenced technical transmission of high definition broadcasts towards a full commercial launch in spring 2010. Freeview HD is now being beamed from the Winter Hill transmitter group in the North West and the Crystal Palace group in London following the world-first adoption of the DVB-T2 standard and MPEG-4. During a briefing at the […]
Nov 27 2009
ITV HD, which is currently available on Freesat through the red button on ITV1, has been rebranded to ITV1 HD, in preparation for the launch on Freeview and Freesat on December 2nd. The channel is showing some upscaled material at irregular intervals. Sky+HD viewers can manually tune in the channel which is labelled 10510. Frequency […]
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Dec 10 2018
ITV HD Freeview EPG Missing
Viewers have reported missing programme EPG data for ITV HD on Freeview and YouView on Sunday. Viewers in multiple regions were unable to access details of programmes on ITV HD due to missing EPG data in the 7 day Electronic Programme Guide used by Freeview and YouView. Some devices showed either a ‘no information’ label […]
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By Expat • Freeview, ITV • Tags: EPG, ITV HD