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BBC HD began broadcasting on 15 May 2006 as a trial station to test the possibility and technical practicality of broadcasting programmes in HD. [2] [3] The first programme to be broadcast that was specifically made for HD was natural history programme Planet Earth, which was shown on 27 May 2006.
This is a list of local, regional, national and international television channels and radio stations owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom and around the world. List of television channels
BBC HD is also available on Virgin Media and Freeview. BBC One HD was launched on 3 November 2010 on Sky, Virgin, Freesat and Freeview. During 2006, ITV trialled its high-definition service ITV HD. This trial was a Digital Terrestrial trial which broadcast only from the Crystal Palace transmitting station in London. The channel was transitioned ...
BBC Two Wales HD [n 4] BBC Three HD: 10 December 2013 BBC Four HD: BBC News HD: BBC Parliament HD: April 2022 BBC Scotland HD: 24 February 2019 Bloomberg HD: Bloomberg L.P. 1 March 2017 Boomerang HD: Turner Broadcasting System Europe (Warner Bros. Discovery) 24 June 2015 Cartoon Network HD: 14 September 2011 CBBC HD: BBC 10 December 2013 ...
On 28 May 2010, the BBC announced that they would launch a simulcast of BBC One in HD to accompany the BBC HD channel, which aimed to show the best BBC programming in high-definition, whereas the new channel was aimed purely at being a HD version of BBC One. BBC One HD launched at 19:00 on 3 November 2010. In July 2011, rumours began to surface ...
The Now TV boxes and dongles have extra downloadable apps that provide access to free catch-up or streaming services such as BBC iPlayer, ITVX, and UKTV Play, as well as access to Sky Store, Netflix (added in late 2018), Peacock (added in November 2021), Sky Sports Box Office, Disney+ (added in April 2020) [31] and YouTube. [32]
The user interface of the BBC Integrated Media Player (iMP) in 2006. The original iPlayer service was launched in October 2005, undergoing a five-month trial by five thousand broadband users until 28 February 2006. iPlayer was heavily criticised for the delay in its launch, rebranding and cost to BBC licence-fee payers because no finished product had been released after four years of ...
Freely is a British free-to-air IPTV service launched in 2024 by Everyone TV, a joint venture between the country's public broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. [1] The service offers the ability to watch live television and on demand media from the main broadcasters while seamlessly switching between them in a unified electronic ...