UK Free TV story archive

2010

Brierley Hill transmitter all TV services 8am-6pm, 2nd February

2009

BBC iPlayer on Freesat
ITV HD on Sky+HD Boxes
No Freeview HD boxes means it's Freesat HD for these Christmas TV hits
Freeview HD London details
Ten Million Freeview homes
Manchester and North West - switch off ends Wednesday 2nd December
UK Free TV mobile site
Clarifications...
BBC iPlayer on Freesat - starts soon
Freeview HD will be 1080p25 and 1080i25.
Freeview HD - final dates
Prediction system update
What will you be doing in for new year 2020?
Top Gear goes HD on Freesat
No encyption for Freview HD, Freeview HD extended
Manchester and North West - switch off starts Wednesday 4th November
Two new Freeview channels - almost everywhere
BBC News Interactive closed on Freeview Tuesday 27 October
Why has the BBC given away 75% of a Multiplex to the commercial sector?
FIVE limited resolution in some parts
Freeview retune - poor public service transmitters deal
BBC One is now statisitcally multiplexed thoughout the UK
Freeview retune - statement
Freeview retune - the results
QUEST launches at 12pm
Freeview retune day - how was it for you?
So far, so good
30 September 2009 Retune Video
Operation time!
All Freeview equipment must be retuned at midday on 30 September 2009
Clairmont Cairn photos
Switchover notes - multiplex names
30 September Freeview Retune - list of manuals
ONE DAY to stop DRM on Freeview HD
Freesat sells 600,000 untils since its launch
BBC FOI transmitter data - first draft
Progress report - BBC FOI and my shoulder!
Pace Freeview HD Press Release
Transmitter engineering blogger
BBC Freedom Of Information - transmitter radiation patterns
Updates to Engineering information
The Wrekin - analogue closed on 3rd September 2009
Aerial group performance
At a funeral - Wednesday
BBC Rogue Traders
TV Catchup upgraded
Digital switch-over problems
Quest will launch on 30 September
How much does, at DSO, an aerial or satellite dish installation cost?
A hotel rip-off
UK Free TV and all five browsers
What is behind the 30 September Freeview retune?
Twitter #ukfreetv
BBC HD Idents
How to cut back your TV subscription
Jordy's 800Mhz question
Dates confirmed for STV North (ne Grampian) transmitters
BBC Proms in HD and digital surround sound
IAAF World Athletics Championship in HD
New "Reads and Feeds" page
Feedback
Mobile site - an update
Mobile site under test
Virgin 1 24 hours, Virgin 1+1
Watch all the catchup TV in one place
An update
Test Tube Telly from C4
Fixed the post-swichover details
Identifying boxes on the roof
Back again...
Windows 7 Media with interactive BBC Wimbledon
Yes, Setanta Sports WERE mad
An Hotel "research" meeting
Digital upgrading a TV mast
Winter Hill - switchover date confirmed
Switch over and PC-based systems
talkSPORT on Freesat
Freesat awards
Freesat is "best new brand"
Freesat boss wins award
TechniSat HDFS launched
What's coming up
Caldbeck transmitter region to start switching Wednesday 24th June
Regional News Question
Digital Britain Report - why ITV regional news?
Digital Britain - providing for everyone
Digital Britain Report report
Digital Britain Report: radio
Sorry for my absence
CNN joins Freesat
Merge Sky News with The Times?
Aerial groups - new feature
A few improvements
Yorkshire, Westcountry and Border updates
Quest on 14 May, but not 24 hour
Yesterday, tomorrow
Rowridge 25th March retune
Freeview channel number shuffle
Another apology...
PARAS - Professional Aerial Riggers Against The Sharks
Catching up to do...
Manchester to get Freeview Channel M
Kangaroo cancelled
Film4 moves to 15
Digital Britain Interim Report is published
Freeview+ up 120% in December 2008
Five US to rebrand as .. Five USA
Apologies...
CNN on Freeview from this week
Problem with engineering information
The last BBC Re-Broadcast Standby test?
Freesat sales were 200,000 in 2008
Goodbye Price Drop, hello Discovery Quest!
LG to make integrated Freesat products
Can you help this poor man make up his mind about BSkyB's ITV stake?
High pressure causing channel loss through "Inversion"

2008

A happy MMIX to everyone
Is this the most far-flung Freesat advert?
No ITV2, ITV3 or ITV in East Midlands
A few speed improvements
Sales - Freesat and Freeview reductions!
Christmas help is here...
A Freeview Christmas present - a free online TV guide
Digital Radio's future
BBC iPlayer - Apple, Linux and Windows download version beta
BBC High Definition test card
Freeview "transmitter" name changed
Freesat - subtitles, ITV4, ITVHD (for UTV and STV)
Digital UK Scotland switchover schedule changes
Cardiff switchover dates set
BBC iPlayer day
Happy birthday BBC HD
A Freesat high definition Christmas?
All BBC channels now online
Teletext test - which transmitters work?
BBC ALBA now on the iPlayer
BBC One and BBC TWO online from November 27th
TV Catch Up
Arqiva statement on Selkirk switchover
Freesat+ in stores from Friday 22nd
Analogue off tonight from Selkirk and relays + FIVE on Freesat
Does the "Teletext Test" work?
Mid-switchover details added to the Selkirk page
TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode
Shopping channel axed from Freeview
Arqiva confirms switchover 'first phase' success
Five on Freesat from November 18th
New Freesat campaign
National Freeview+ campaign starts on 6th November
Switchover week, and FIVE on Freesat
Sky anti-Virgin 'ads' slammed by Ofcom
Who is responsible for digital switchover?
Humax Freesat+ official release information
Coming up.. digital switchover who's who and Stephen Fry and some Rhinos
Freeview HD may launch before switchover in London and other cities
Digital UK, nice new site, shame about not knowing about FIVE 98.5% after switch
North West England (Granada) and North Wales switch off dates finalised
FIVE slot on BBC multiplex confirmed - again
BBC HD: DOGs Update
Liberals don't like Freeview Lite
Post switchover signal strength.
Zingzing TV Listings
Recommended reading
Welcome to the blog!
Freesat on Freeview HD
Ofcom approves Freeview HD channels
New look UK FREE TV
Discovery to launch Freeview channel
New look UK Free TV - coming very soon
Lifeboats get taxed by Ofcom
Channel 4 cancels DAB radio channels
'Digital Switchover is today a done deal in 90% of UK Homes' - Grade
Another Freeview slot coming up
Freesat radio enhanced
Final dates for Isle of Man and Caldbeck switchoff
Ofcom delivers two important reports
Freesat confirms Freesat+ launch in November
Freesat sells 100,000 in first five month
Ofcom Public Service Broadcasting - part II
Five gets a new look
Michael's "Pay TV" investigation
Freesat awarded 'best contribution to digital TV'
Five more for Freesat on Tuesday
Sky cancels Picnic and annoys Ofcom
New site feature
Freeview PC
Freesat news .. and rumours
More Freesat channels on Friday
BBC R&I demonstrates Freeview HD
Freesat hires farm to promote Freesat
Freesat+ is here, bye bye Sky?
Metronic starts Freesat second wave manufactures
BBC iPlayer begins series stacking soon
BBC FOUR, CBBC and CBeebies live online
Freesat appoints Product Technology director
BBC Alba launches on 19 September
ITV2 goes 3D for the new season
Freeview+ will offer trailer selection soon
Some Wales switchover dates finalized
BBC Olympics in HD on Freesat
Humax Freesat+ debut on 11th September
How to get Sky News on a Freesat box
Another 'mode change' for Wales and E+SE England
Talk to the BBC HD boss Danielle Nagler!
Freesat has a new chairman
ITV3 classics now viewable on-line
BBC fined 400,000 for pre-mediated fake quizes
Sky's response to Freesat 'disappointment'
The Hits becomes 4Music but not on Freesat
Why Freesat did not launch with 230 channels
Five coming soon to Freesat, WotSat told
New Freesat channels now live
18 new channels on Freesat starting Thursday
How digital television works
Freeview 'mode change' in England
The great Channel 4 Global Warming Swindle Swindle
Problems with Sagem and TUTV Thompson PVRs
Freesat round up
BBC HD channel has new boss
First non-Sport ITV1 HD programme tonight
BBC World Service: Freeview retune 4 August
BBC and ITV English regions now on Freesat
Save up to 700 pounds a year on your TV costs
UK Free updates complete... what do you want next
How much did your aerial or dish install cost?
Ofcom - just 12.8% homes now are 'analogue'
Freesat dealing with HD box shortages
Another reason to get Freesat .. Sky hikes prices
BBC Annual Report released
BBC iPlayer 2 is live now
New format to switchover detail pages
Freeview+ the new name for Freeview Playback
BBC iPlayer 2 - now!
ITV, Channel 4 and five can apply for Freeview HD
BSkyB share price at record low too!
Freeview mode change in Scotland, NI and the North
ITV share price drops to 41.1p
BBC starts Freeview HD test in Guildford
Olympics in HD on Freesat and Sky HD
Free Sky box for pensioners
TMF fined 80k for bad language
ITV HD - starts with Euro 2008
BBC iPlayer version 2 coming very soon
RSS updates
U-switch's confusing report
Ofcom - no swearing, please Auntie...
DVB-T2 update
Rabbit - exclusive interview
New UK Free TV features
Digital UK's guide for local councils
Zattoo - Freeview online
Freesat installations
Humax FOXSAT-HD freesat HD
Freesat in the media...
Freesat launch confirmed for May 6th, 12:30pm
All about Freesat
Public Service Broadcasting Funding - an answer
Switchover month to be shortened or dropped
Is there a big problem with the Freeview HD plan?
Richard and Judy find a new home
Do you want to advise Ofcom?
BBC News 24 and BBC World to have new names
Channel 4 goes free for Freesat launch on 6th May
Ofcom PSB Review II
How green is your TV?
BBC Freeview services to drop 33% in quality in 09
Ofcom publishes Freeview HD plan
TV Licence rises by 3%
ITV Play: Michael Grade wins two million quid
What is Channel 4 for?
Lancaster problems comments from w/e 28 March 2008
Digital penetration reaches 86.7%
Lancaster transmitter upgrade problems
Five Life? No, have a fiver...
ITV1 super-regions announced
Updated look and features - coming soon
EU makes it time for Freeview Mobile?
Local Freeview for all
BBC iPlayer - now MP4 for iPhone
What to do with 'worthless' ITV?
Mr Shit For Brains?
LiveStation - new exciting beta version
BBC three - now Flash online (beta)
High pressure causing reception problems
HD and Freesat questions and answers
CITV moves .. but not to Wales
BBC Three gets a revamp

2007

Sorry for the break in service...
Ofcom: We Say You Pay a million and a half...
C4 HD on Sky
BBC iPlayer redesigned
Setanta Sports News - starts today
Ofcom's HD mystery shopping trip
Kangaroo: it's not Freeview online
3 Freeview HD channels will start 2009
BBC HDTV green light - but not on Freeview
Self-help relays
Whitehaven switchover complete
London and South East may switchover early in 2011
The Theft Factor?
Happy 5th birthday Freeview!
New switchover details published
The "secret" Ofcom plan for Freeview HDTV: DVB-T2
Digital switchover - Whitehaven
ITV: Ten million fake premium rate calls
Whitehaven switchover in progress
Crowngate - BBC One controller has resigned
Sky freezes out satellite competitors
Sky Picnic - or Payview?
What is happening to Freeview?
ABC-1 has stopped broadcasting
BBC Freeview HD service - you decide
Two million pound fine for GMTV
It's Dave - not Bright Ideas and evening History
Freesat contract goes to Arqiva
Ofcom - just 16% of homes without digital TV
C4 HD from December
Ofcom: BBC HD Service is "OK"
Freeview retune for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4
Virgin 1 - October 1
ITV Regional News to change
A BBC digital switchover plan?
ABC-1 to leave Freeview
Save BBC THREE and BBC FOUR
Freesat appoints Freeview launch director
Region maps upgraded
BBC podcast from Edinburgh with UK Free TV
UKTV G2 not coming to Freeview
Jeremy Paxman: how can we trust TV?
UK Free in Edinburgh
Scrap TV Poll Tax and some DRM - top Tory
Lost ITV2 or ITV3?
BBC iPlayer: how to install and use
Welcome to Setanta Sports
Channel 4 +1 on 20 August
BBC iPlayer campaign
Want to report Theft TV to the police?
LiveStation trial offers BBC News 24
five is 'blocked by trees' at Malvern
Blue Peter sunk by Ofcom quiz report
We Say You Pay - Richard, Judy and a huge fine.
4 Digital wins second DAB licence
Channel 4+1 from 20th August
Ofcom publishes switchover frequencies
Regional News and ITV1 fears
UK Free TV on Facebook
iPlayer - 27th July 2007
300,000 pound fine for Five's Brainteaser
Ofcom to consult about Sky's pay-for Freeview
Updated maps
Ofcom finally lets Freeview pass Sky
New Channel 4 numbers on satellite
BBC News 24 still fails at physics
Freeview Setanta
40 million pound Virgin 1 schedule announced
Sky Payview: more confusion
"Virgin 1" to replace FTN on Freeview
No ITV Movie channel
New Switchover simulation
BBC lowers HD expectations
Upscalers are NOT high definition
Sky+ ten quid monthly fee abolished
Setback for HDTV Freeview
Payview is on, Payview is off
BBC iPlayer - for Adults only
Minister considers TV premium calls ban
Natasha brings BBC Three's 60 seconds news to One
BBC News 24 - live online
UK Nova
Channel 4
ViewTV
Whitehaven switchover captions
Will MIMO bring HD to Freeview?
Try Joost
BBC Trust BBC iPlayer decision
BBC Freeview HD trail to end
Time to swap Freeview channels?
iPlayer decision this week
BBC/ITV Freesat - Spring 08
GMTV: Another ten million quid quiz rip off?
BBC iPlayer will work with Macs
Freeview Playback announced
ITV boss demands Freeview HDTV
A comparison of TV, HDTV and computer monitors
MPs demand Freeview HD
New transmitter monopoly
Updated maps
Channel 4 to join YouTube and add music channel to
New national radio announced
More BBC mobile TV
Payview is junked
Welcome to UK Free HDTV
ITV Play digital channel axed
ITV not coming out to Play today
BBC on YouTube!
BBC Backstage podcast: DRM and the BBC
Is the Sky falling in?
45% of Manchester aerial installers a 'rip-off'
Freeview BBCi multiscreen to add sport and weather
Payview is coming
Sky adverts: dishonest, untrue and unsubstantiated
Another two million Freeview sales
BBC Trust approves platform-agnostic iPlayer
MPs slam Quiz TV channels
Channel 4 apologies for racism?
New look BBC News 24
'Rawlplugs in handbags' channels face report
Freeview HDTV petition
TV tax on the TV tax
BBC publishes 'sack Greg Dyke' Governors’ minutes
New UK Free TV gadgets and maps
ITV media player 'end of March'

2006

Merry Christmas!
BBC licence fee agreed for six years
Heart radio on Freeview
NHS Freeview
Only 25% of main sets are analogue
Council aerial ban challenged
Full C4 on the Lobster phone
Peekvid: Easy TV on YouTube
Will Independent Television become Sk-ITV?
ITV West extended to North Gloucestershire
High pressure causing nationwide disruption
95% of UK will have digital TV by 2010
QuizCall's Number is Up
Fullscreen Freeview BBC Parliament
Channel 4 dumps Quiz Call
Is Setanta Sports mad?
New UK after-switchover maps
Time Trumpet take on digital switchover
Big Brother is fleecing you
Map of places needing a new aerial post-switchover
Ofcom - our previous figures were wrong
ITV1 Thames Valley, Sheffield and TTTV regions
Caldbeck switchover delayed until 2009
BBC and Microsoft "understanding"
New BBCone look
ITV Children's programmes and Stephen Carter
What price for an aerial installation?
Ofcom: will BBC iPlayer distort the market?
BBC and Arqiva finalise 1.8bn pound deal
New, free PC based TV guide from DigiGuide
Belmont, Lincolnshire transmitter
Freesat - free satellite
Virgin starts DAB TV service
BBC expands to six non-UK channels
Cornwall: No BBC multiplex until 18th September
How signal stregth, quality and bitrate relate
Unpopular Top Up TV turns to PVR
iPlayer goes for first ever BBC Public Value Test
Coming to the UK?
10 million Freeview homes
Two new channels five from October 15 and 16
Do you watch more than one BBC or ITV region?
ITV1 viewing drops further
Who is going to pay for millions of new aerials?
New features
BBC structure
New TV stealth tax
What is happening with the main five channels?
Whitehaven gets first half-Freeview in 2006
Do we need quiz channels?
BBC/ITV Freesat delayed until late '07
Planned downtime from midnight to 1am tonight.
How to upgrade a Guest House
Film4 comes to Freeview
Frequencies agreed for Switchover
You can watch Channel 4 online from Tuesday 27th
Where next for Television and the Internet?
Channel 4 will stream it's UK programming
Real, live mobile phone TV
Coming soon ITV2+1
iPlayer to launch anyway
Virgin Radio to join Freeview
BBC News to drop tainted 24 name
Free Media Center PVR!
Channel 4 can join iPlayer
Freeview passes Sky
New channel alert! Five life and Five US
BBC and ITV to try six month TV-over-DAB
All clear for launch of video on demand BBC TV
Ofcom has licensed two London HDTV channels.
BBC adds 1000 transmitters to Freeview
50 new answers and new features
Freeview PVRs to be called Playback
Have you seen a HDTV set-top box?
BBC HD has started
More questions answered
DTT HD trial puts five off the air
What was linear television? What is Martini TV?
Freeview becomes Payview?
ITV Play replaces Men and Motors
Cartoon wars: The end of broadcast television?
CITV to launch on Freesat on 8th May
No digital TV for some until after the Olympics
Dating Channel launches full-service on the web
Ofcom dismisses 44% of Freeview
How much is switchover worth?
CITV launched today
Analogue transmitter shutdown map
New site features
Tessa's other 616,705 question
New Freesat channel numbers
From Baird to Persistent Peer-to-Peer networks
What is the iPlayer?
Is my Freeview box going to call the RAF too?
Google Earth facilities
FilmFour makes fourth free from 4
What about High Definition?
ITV Childrens Channel
Get uk free tv with google gateway
Freeview to pass Sky on 11th July 2006
Frequency maps and switchover simulator
Happy new year!
Providing help since July 2002
Analogue shutdown simulation
Keep Freeview free!
BBC and ITV Freesat
Windows XP Media Center Edition

2005

ITV News to close
BBC iPlayer
No-one upgrades from Freeview to Sky
Final shutdown map
Updated shutdown dates
More4 not on Freesat
ITV News to depart from Freeview
Children's ITV Channel
Keep cricket free
Mobile digital TV ... tomorrow
Introducing Sky Three
Men's channel ITV4 starts 1 Nov
audio description
Minister to confirm analogue switchoff
Coming soon… where to buy
Coming soon... help with your equipment
BBC and ITV free satellite
More4 launch date set
Set top boxes
Sky Freesat
Portable Media Centre
RSS
Firefox and Mac now supported
Your analogue switch off date
Experience better sound
Going fully digital
Watching mobile digital TV
Your guide to electronic programme guides
Apologies
Switchover animation
integrated digital TV
Updates
Personal Video Recorders
How to install
Portable TV
From 20 Feb
Digital TV around the home
Surround sound
Interactive services

2004

All new UK Free TV
Channel list
Site updates
BBC calls for FreeSat
Ofcom digital plans
New satellite channel numbers
No updates until 23rd Feb
TCM no longer free
Carlisle fooled by BBC digital radio
Digital channels take from the old guard
Norfolk wants to Freeview
One in seven don't want digital
Still waiting for your free-to-view card?
Many new answers

2003

A merry Christmas to everyone!
Free satellite cards £23.50
Free satellite - now only £23.50
Site improvements
3+4+5 Satellite update
BBC Annual Report
Weekly cost of channels
Freeview connections soar
New Freeview channel scrapped
Taking the blame for satellite switch-off
BSkyB lifts target after return to the black
A Million UK Couch Potatoes
ITC readjustment could cost itv-1 millions
BBC Channel Islands on satellite
BBC now free-to-air on all systems
Site updated
Digital satellite uncertainty
2 million Freeviewers
New BBC Satellite Numbers
Improved BBC pictures
£60 Freeview boxes being made in Wales
BBC delays relaunch on free satellite
More new features
More ukfree.tv updates
Coverage maps
Try it, you will love it - ITC
ukfree.tv updates continue
Ad regulator gives OK to Freeview
BBC World
BBC asks ITC to keep it at 101 on Sky
Analogue switch-off on-target
BBC to relaunch on free satellite
41.4% of homes have digital TV
Silver C4 for older viewers?
CNN - Will they, won't they?
BBC changes satellites to get round Sky
Half a million new Freeviewers
ITV Digital final act
How much we all pay for free TV

2000

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