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Freeview is the collection of free-to-air services on the digital terrestrial television platform in the United Kingdom. The service was launched at 5 am on 30 October 2002 and is jointly operated by its five equal shareholders – BBC , ITV , Channel 4 , BSkyB and transmitter operator Arqiva .
The Digibox is a device marketed by Sky UK in the UK and Ireland to enable home users to receive digital satellite television broadcasts (satellite receiver) from the Astra satellites at 28.2° east. An Internet service was also available through the device, similar in some ways to the American MSN TV , before being discontinued in 2015.
The Freeview service underwent a major upgrade on 30 September 2009, which required 18 million households to retune their Freeview receiving equipment. [9] The changes, meant to ensure proper reception of Channel 5, led to several thousand complaints from people who lost channels (notably ITV3 and ITV4) as a result of retuning their equipment.
Electra at the time developed an IPTV platform called Trove which brought media services to the TV screen through Tesco-branded Freeview set top boxes. Electra believes that "the proposed vision, shareholder structure and aims of YouView are anti-competitive and significantly damage the UK interactive TV market".
Removed from Freeview in January 2019. ITV Box Office – A pay-per-view sports channel. Closed on 24 January 2020. Merit – A short-lived lifestyle channel. Sold to Sky on 20 August 2020. CITV – For children under 12 years old. Closed as a channel on 1 September 2023. Programming moved to ITVX and a daily morning slot on ITV2.
This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, and those that have been removed.. Almost all channels broadcast on DTT are free-to-air, with a limited number of subscription channels (requiring a subscription to a pay-TV package) and pay-per-view channels (requiring a one-off payment to view an event) also available.
In 2007 Freeview was available to only 73% of the population. [7] After analogue TV services were replaced in the digital switchover, this increased to 98.5% for the public service channels and 90% for the full 'Freeview' service. To provide more widespread coverage and a larger number of channels, a digital satellite alternative was felt ...
This category is to do with Freeview, who help promote and brand the free Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. Pages in category "Freeview (UK)" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.