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Time to swap Freeview channels?

Some Freeview channels are flagging... is it time for a rethink?

Some Freeview channels are flagging... is it time for a rethin
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There is no doubting the success of Freeview. Since it launched at the end of October 2002, Freeview has become the most popular digital TV platform in the UK.

Some of the channels that have had joined Freeview have done very well too, but others have not.

The UKTV Bright Ideas channel has never scored more than 0.2% since it launched!

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Perhaps it is time to replace this channel with the once popular UKTV Gold?

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Which channels would you pull from Freeview? Which channels would you replace them with?







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John Threadwell
Sunday 2 September 2007 11:27AM
Time to stick TCM on the freeview platform along with Eurosport, and UK Gold
Briantist
Sunday 2 September 2007 12:22PM
John Threadwell: There is, sadly, no capacity for additional channels until switchover is complete.
TerryBull
Tuesday 9 October 2007 10:28AM
Ditch all the shopping channels and give the saved bandwith to a couple of high definition channels
John Threadwell
Wednesday 17 October 2007 11:12AM
I know what should happen. The BBC should sell its digital time slots to another broadcaster (thus getting rid of BBC FOUR, BBC Three Parliament etc) giving the BBC more money to concentrate on its core services (BBC 1 BBC 2) sell the space to another braocaster who amy be able to make better use of the time available THE END.
Briantist
Wednesday 17 October 2007 1:17PM
John Threadwell: It cannot, they are gifted by Parliament for non-commercial use. Also, BBC Parliament is funded directly by the goverment. I think you will find that the Royal Charter requires the provision of BBC THREE and BBC FOUR.
Simon
Friday 19 October 2007 1:57PM
Woah! I like Parliament channel. I don't want that to go, and BBC4 often has some interesting programmes on, so that I'd like kept as well. However, all those shopping channels and game channels are just a waste of space really. Scrapping a few of those to make way for a few decent channels would be okay by me. I used to watch TCM, now that would be good on Freeview. Well any other free-to-air film/movie channels would be a good addition to the service. However, I have to say that I'd rather Sky were kept away from Freeview, no matter what they offered.
Nigel
Friday 3 June 2011 7:00PM
Has Dave been taken off Freeview? I can't get however many times I retune!
Briantist
Friday 3 June 2011 8:47PM
Nigel: No, it has not. Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Mike Dimmick
Saturday 4 June 2011 4:09PM
Nigel: At that location, you are predicted to have variable to poor reception from Sutton Coldfield on all multiplexes. It is likely to stop working at least some of the time, with very little you can do about it. It's simply down to the variability of signal propogation from the transmitter to you, and of signals from other transmitters as well. A bit lower propogation from Sutton Coldfield to you, and a little more from others, and it could well reduce signal quality enough for some services to stop working. This variability - which broadcasters call 'fading' - is usually different on different frequencies, so some services may be failing while others are working, then swapping around at different dates.

It is predicted that you have a high likelihood of reliable service from Sutton Coldfield once it has switched over. You will need to retune on the 7th and 21st of September.
Mark Fletcher
Saturday 15 October 2011 8:07PM Halifax
Dump the empty non-channels from Freeview for a start.92 Adult section,99 Adult section,189,Adult section,199 Adult section,306 Channel zero.Get rid of 25 Dave ja vu on 2 hours between 2am-4am,26 Home on 1 hour 10am-11am (Top up TV),32 Big deal,44 Pick TV+1 (No longer now on Freeview),47 Daystar,85 Russia today,89 Al Jazeera Eng,307 Top up anytime 1,309 Top up anytime 3,and all the adult channels 93,94,95,96,97,98,191,192,193,Babestation,etc.Unscramble 17 UK TV Gold,Extend the hours of worthwhile channels such as 49 Food network,87 Community channel,etc.
M.A.Cooper
Sunday 23 October 2011 12:55PM Nottingham
Is it where i live bingham had a very good singnal from waltham for all channels then we had the switchover the problems i encounted on the retune belmont pumping a stronger signal to my reciever which took the bbc & itv spaces on mymote be the midland channels where on 800+ numbers but no dave etc so later on after retuning and R.T.M.and retuned again sorted the channel slots right with the remote and having done this several times still no dave etc what has someone have to do to rectify the problem from the nottingham tranmitter people are recieving dave etc
Briantist
Monday 24 October 2011 8:50AM
M.A.Cooper: Please see Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Carlos
Wednesday 16 November 2011 1:26PM
I would like to see uk gold eurosport and two music channels like bliss or magic also maybe documentary channel like eden on freeview all would give a wide genre of variety to the already good freeview channels we have bar the rubbish shopping and adult channels which are a waste of space on freeview.
Briantist
Friday 18 November 2011 7:47AM
Carlos : The capacity on Freeview is sold as open auctions, this means that no one can bar channels that can pay to be on the platform.
St3ve
Monday 21 November 2011 8:08PM Fleet
Bring back Eurosport, as there seems no way to get this on freeview. It used to be available as part of a Top-up, I believe?
Briantist
Wednesday 7 December 2011 1:58PM
St3ve: ONdigital had Eurosport in C29 - en.wikipedia.org link icon ITV Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
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