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Two new Freeview channels - almost everywhere

A nice match between the BBC and Arqiva will provide two full time Freeview channels.

A nice match between the BBC and Arqiva will provide two full t
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If you are using, or will use a Public Service (small relay) transmitter, please look away now.

For everyone else, the www.ukfree.tv link icon removal of the BBC News Interactive and one Interactive channel has an upside.

The BBC is selling the capacity used by these services to provide two more slots to the commercial market. This means two more channels in areas that have not switched over yet.

At the same time, Arqiva is adding two more full-time video streams (TV channels) over Multiplexes ARQA and ARQB, for those regions that HAVE switched over.

This means, in effect, that as soon as next month there could be two new full-time channels on Freeview.

No doubt it will be ITV3+1 or More4+1+1, but we can hope. Perhaps Yesterday will expand again?



(The most watched non-premium, non-Sky, non-plus-one channels are 0.6%: Living TV; 0.4%: Comedy Central, G.O.L.D., Hallmark, Sci-Fi Channel, Watch; 0.3%: Alibi, Nick Jr, Nicktoons; 0.2%: Boomerang, Bravo, Cartoon Network, Challenge TV, FX, Good Food, Nickelodeon.).

Which two channels would YOU like on Freeview next month?







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Stew2000
Tuesday 27 October 2009 9:20PM
Bring back Men & Motors!
Charles Stuart
Tuesday 27 October 2009 9:53PM Trowbridge
Yes, I would like to see Yesterday back to 24 hours. I'd also quite like Russia Today on 24 hours. Maybe, best of all would be a new PSB channel with general entertainment, documentaries and news.
Jordy
Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:17PM
Here's the no shortlist:-

True Movies - Chart Show TV - Scuzz/NME TV -
CBS/Zone channel - Euronews - Men & Motors -
Film4+1/More4+1 - Yesterday 24 hours -
Quest+1 - ESPN 24 hours...

We all know it'll be a bloody shopping channel/ Jewelery channel or 6 mbps wasted on some girl lying on a bed whilst taking bingo numbers! Yes i did say bingo numbers...
Alan
Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:29PM
I would like to see the Peoples Channel where anyone can air a film or documentaries.

Any advertising revenue could be put back into the running costs.
Stephen Phillips
Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:55PM
Perhaps a nice porn channel? There don't seem to be any on Freeview?

Or have I not looked hard enough?
Alan
Tuesday 27 October 2009 11:18PM
Open your eyes Stephen porn is everywhere

michael
Wednesday 28 October 2009 7:48AM
There is plenty of entertainment choice,
not so much factual programming. So:
1. BBC + C4 documentaries, (top series repeats)
2. Yesterday / History mix

But, we will probably get lots of lovely
shopping offers instead "by popular demand"...
Briantist
Wednesday 28 October 2009 8:46AM
Here are the BARB figures for the most popular channels NOT on Freeview. I've crossed out the premium ones and italicized the +1 ones. The bold ones are the most likely on these grounds.

1.4%: Sky Sports 1.
1.0%: Sky 1. Not a chance
0.8%: Sky Sports 2.
0.6%: Living TV.
0.5%: Disney Channel,

0.4%: Comedy Central,
G.O.L.D.,
Hallmark,
Sci-Fi Channel,
Sky 2, Not a chance
Watch.

0.3%: Alibi,
Disney Channel +1,
Living TV +1,
Living TV 2,
Nick Jr,
Nicktoons,
Playhouse Disney,
Sky Sports 3.

0.2%: Boomerang,
Bravo,
Cartoon Network,
Challenge TV,
Comedy Central +1,
Discovery,
Film4 +1,
FX,
G.O.L.D.+1,
Good Food,
More4 +1,
Nick Jr 2,
Nickelodeon,
Nickelodeon Replay,
Playhouse Disney Plus,
Sky Movies Family,
Sky Movies Premiere,


0.1%: Alibi +1,
Animal Planet,
attheraces,
Blighty,
Boomerang +1,
Bravo +1,
Bravo 2,
Cartoon Network Too,
Cartoonito,
Challenge TV +1,
Clubland TV,
Comedy Central Extra,
Crime & Investigation Network,
Discovery +1,
Discovery Home & Health,
Discovery Knowledge,
Discovery Real Time,
Discovery Real Time +1,
Discovery Science,
Discovery Shed,
Discovery Turbo,
Disney Cinemagic,
Disney XD,
Disney XD +1,
DMAX,
DMAX+1,
E!,
Eden,
ESPN,
Eurosport,
Eurosport 2,
FIVE USA +1,
FIVER +1,
FX+,
Good Food + 1,
Hallmark+1,
Home,
Home +1,
ITV 3 +1,
Kiss TV,
Living TV +2,
Magic TV,
Military History,
Movies 24,
Movies 24+,
MTV,
MTV Base,
MTV Hits,
National Geographic,
National Geographic +1,
National Geographic Wild,
Pop,
Sky Movies Action-Thriller,
Sky Movies Comedy,
Sky Movies Drama,
Sky Movies Modern Greats,
Sky Movies Premiere +1,
Sky Movies SciFi-Horror,
Sky Movies Screen 1,
Sky Movies Screen 2,
Sky Sports Extra,
TCM,
The Box,
The History Channel,
The History Channel +1,
Tiny Pop,
True Movies,
VH-1 Classic,
Watch+1,
Zone Horror,
Zone Reality.
john gundry
Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:21AM
Yesterday to expand and comedy central and one 12 hour
Ann
Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:23AM
I would like to be able to receive ITV3 again, which we lost in the recent changes, so if there was an ITV3+1, we might be able to receive it.
Ann
Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:23AM
Oh yes, and Film 4+1.
Briantist
Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:25AM
Ann: These channels will be on multiplex B then COM5/ARQ6, so if you can't get ITV3 now, probably isn't going to help.
Briantist
Wednesday 28 October 2009 11:26AM
Ann: Strange to ask for a +1 channel when it's a +1 channel that has caused your loss...
Dean Ensor
Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:32PM
Eurosport and Watch please
sharealam
Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:39PM
asian channels please
sharealam
Wednesday 28 October 2009 1:06PM
comedy central and classic gold please.
Mark Agius
Wednesday 28 October 2009 3:36PM Haywards Heath
A long time ago on ITV (as about 9am weekdays) there was a program called 'IBA Engineering Announcements'
We could turn this into a new 24 hour channel and call it the 'UK Free-TV channel'
But if it was 24 hours then Briantist would never sleep.
Andy Ripley
Wednesday 28 October 2009 4:00PM
Test card F, and the other channel those films that used to be on BBC2 during the day to demonstrate colour TV.
Brian
Wednesday 28 October 2009 5:54PM
VIVA

My god, why have we got to have channels like this?

I do not want to watch either sex taking their clothes off - its a pile of crap, nearly as bad as a shopping channels.

What has this country come to. The moral fibre of this nation has fallen into near direpair under this government.

We have to tolerate adverts for poker, and gambling. We have to watch all of those slags who supposedly give mobile phone users the horn by texting.

Come on someone - ban the bloody lot. Let's get back to some decent viewing.
mr random
Wednesday 28 October 2009 6:50PM
Comedy Central & Living would be great!
Briantist
Wednesday 28 October 2009 8:54PM
Andy Ripley: You can watch the testcard at any time, see www.ukfree.tv link icon How do I get a test card with Freeview | ukfree.tv - independent digital TV + switchover advice, since 2002
Briantist
Wednesday 28 October 2009 9:00PM

Andy Ripley: I was just wondering if the testcard is still there, so I just checked.


Jenny Harrod
Wednesday 28 October 2009 9:44PM
Oh please let it be Living and GOLD, they're the only ones we ever watched when we were "robbed" by Sky every month. There's no comedy channels on Freeview and we could all watch Most Haunted too.

Even better put them on Freesat and then the picture is better on the Isle of Wight where we do struggle to get Freeview at all.
Ann
Thursday 29 October 2009 10:17AM
Briantist I don't understand your comment "Ann: Strange to ask for a +1 channel when it's a +1 channel that has caused your loss..." How was losing ITV3 caused by a +1 channel?
Briantist
Thursday 29 October 2009 5:11PM
Ann: I meant that it is because you now have ITV2+1 rather than ITV3 on multiplex 2, because it was switched from Multiplex D, which you can't (I presume) get.
Briantist
Thursday 29 October 2009 5:58PM
Mark Agius: Yes, I must admit I was a fan of 'IBA Engineering Announcements' - probably the best programme on ITV ever. I wish they would show them on ITV3.
Brian
Friday 30 October 2009 8:26AM
Just flicking throught the program guide again last night and there it was again!

Some program on VIVA where a person gets to take their pants off.

When is these waste of air time crap going to be banned so that some decent stuff can be shown.

The cahnnels I'd like to see on Freeview or Freesat are GOLD and Discovery, it would be nice to see the latter on Freesat so that we can have a bit more HD, cause there's very little of that on too.
Briantist
Friday 30 October 2009 8:35AM
Brian: The non-public service channels can put on what they like if they win the space on Freeview. If you don't like VIVA, don't watch it, please.

No UKTV or Discovery channels (GOLD) will be on Freesat, because Sky's contracts do not allow companies to have a mixture of subscription and free to air channels.
Stephen Phillips
Friday 30 October 2009 1:03PM
I just checked VIVA c21 and it seems to be music.

Do I need to retune for the naked ladies?
Alex T.
Friday 30 October 2009 3:33PM
I'm hoping for Living, Comedy Central, or 24 hour CNN.

Or a non-profit LGBT channel (that is non-dating normal TV channel).

Of course the perfect situation will involve getting rid of all +1 and shopping channels - but would be too good for the public to happen.
Alex T.
Friday 30 October 2009 3:34PM
And about VIVA debate - it is one of MTV "cast off" channels. Music videos in unwatchable hours, reruns of MTV's shit programming during prime time.

I was hoping for dedicated music videos channel (like German original VIVA is) in 16:9 format - but it was too good to be true.
Brian
Friday 30 October 2009 5:29PM
VIVA Debate

No, there were definitely people taking their pants off - my missus watched it all. I went to bed in disgust!

It happens later on at night, its on Monday at 23:00 and its called "Pants Off Dance Off", for God's Sake.

This is the definition of entertainment for some morons.

To me its a waste of air time when we could be watching something really good like a decent film channel.

Briantist
Saturday 31 October 2009 8:21AM
Brian: Charlie Brooker has something to say about this - that it's pants! Charlie Brooker's Screen burn |
Television & radio |
The Guardian
Ian
Saturday 31 October 2009 9:39AM
Never mind extra/new channels. How about making the ones we have watchable. I'm in the Belmont service area (about 20 miles away). The reception is now worse since the September changes. ITV3 is particularly bad. Sound drop out, sound out of sync and blocking sre now common daily events. So much for the improved quality of digital tv. There are other channels with the same problem, but i won't bore you with the full list.
Stephen Phillips
Saturday 31 October 2009 10:35AM


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Ian
Saturday 31 October 2009 11:36AM
As an add on to my earlier post. The sound sync problems, at Belmont, tend to start or end at the commercial break and only affect program content. I agree with the engineer at ITV that said it's probably due to a faulty encoder, but why is it not triggered by the adverts ?????? There's obviously an answer. I just wish someone in the engineering department would find it.
Brian
Sunday 1 November 2009 9:25AM
I've got a Ferguson FDT2000 digibox.

It seems to be playing up.

It loads up all of the channels OK and I can pan through them using the numbered keys and the +/- program switch, but the program guide isn't loading or showing.

Anybody got any ideas?
Brian
Sunday 1 November 2009 9:31AM
Just tried it again after switching down completely.

Its seems to have quit entirely now.

The box goes automatically into standby and will switch on, (green light illuminates), but I cannot get any response from it all now, I just a blank silent screen.

HELP!!!
Stephen Phillips
Sunday 1 November 2009 1:59PM
Hi Brian

I'm sure you will have tried all the usual connection juggling; swapping kit to prove what is faulty, etc.

Percussive rectification?

Steve
Stephen Phillips
Monday 2 November 2009 12:18AM
So it is! Onl;y half an hour though.

I have set to record so I can forma view!

Strictly is damn near porn anyway with those costumes?
J Briggs
Monday 2 November 2009 8:00AM
So, back to the original question: which channels would I like to see added to Freeview?

'Yesterday' would be my favourite and what about BBC2 +1. Why not.
Briantist
Monday 2 November 2009 10:12AM
J Briggs: A BBC One+1 would have to go on multiplex 1/PSB1 as it would need to be a full regional service.
Brian
Monday 2 November 2009 12:10PM
Steve,

I swapped the box over for a cheap Tevion I bought from Aldi and that works OKish!

The Ferguson had a far superior program guide when it was working. The Tevion is very basic.

The Ferguson was bought around June 2003 so it is around 6 years old, but I am sure that the age of it is nowt to do with it's non functioning.

I Know there is a list around of digiboxes that may or may not work after the Big Switch Over, does anyone know where it is listed?
radiotimes
Monday 2 November 2009 3:57PM Galston
Been losing Freeview channels all week from Darvel transmitter and not getting any better.

Anyone else having problems as they say its working fine.
Mike Dimmick
Monday 2 November 2009 8:01PM
Um, GOLD is already on Freeview, on LCN 17 - Mux A Pre-DSO, COM4/SDN Post-DSO.

It IS a premium channel and requires a Top-Up TV card.
Briantist
Monday 2 November 2009 8:28PM
Mike Dimmick: Technically Freeview refers only to the free to air channels, the G.O.L.D is a DTT or DVB-T channel. TUTV is not Freeview.
John
Tuesday 3 November 2009 7:59PM
There's only one channel that matters and it's FILM4. Bring it back please! Sky has so many film channels but Freeview has none so it needs needs one that everyone can access; FILM4 has a fantastic library of films going back to the start of the talkies so it is the undoubted answer to every cinema lover's prayers..
Rog Parsons
Friday 6 November 2009 12:21PM Hinckley
How about a Yesterday2 channel showing older ITV and BBC programmes of the 50's to say 80's - no not the trotted out regulars, the rare ones anything from 'Dixon of Dock Green' to 'Hawaiian Eye' , Harry Worth to 'I Married Joan'
'Highway Patrol' to 'Doomwatch', 'The Human Jungle' to 'Special Branch'. The shows lay gathering dust in a vault or at best are put out rarely as DVDs - but they belong on 'tele' - proper on air TV as a real alternative to the tinselly c.r.a.p (Contrived, Repellent Apologises for Programmes) we are currently getting from BBC and ITV C4 C5 and the Sky, Virgin mobs.
scunthorpe-aerial-and-satellite
Saturday 7 November 2009 5:17PM Scunthorpe
i agree with the original poster Stew2000 i too would like to see the return of Men and Motors
Gordon Ducker
Sunday 8 November 2009 5:34PM
The two new channels should be.
Sci-Fi & Gold
viv ryan
Sunday 8 November 2009 10:31PM
cant get fiver or five usa or itv3 anymore on my freeview tv. have set top box on another tv which says they are there but no signal is received all since the switchover for central london.signal very bad in the holborn area channeols come and go.



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