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A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there were 485 TV stations, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010.
BSkyB launches SkyDigital, now marketed as Sky TV, the UK's first digital satellite service. Unlike the analogue service, it includes an Electronic Programme Guide, interactive TV and text services, widescreen picture format from certain channels , audio description and near video-on-demand pay-per-view movie channels. This also sees the BBC ...
BBC One. Flagship channel and broadcasts a variety of mainstream programming. 24 hours. BBC Two. Secondary channel and broadcasts a range of alternative programming. BBC Three. Broadcasts a variety of youthful programming. 9 hours (19:00 to 04:00) BBC Four.
v. t. e. The "Television Symbol", known informally as the "Bats Wings", was the first BBC Television Service ident. It was created by Abram Games and was used from 1953 to 1960. [1] BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter ...
There are four major forms of digital television (DTV) broadcast in the United Kingdom: a direct-to-home satellite service from the Astra 28.2°E satellites provided by Sky UK, a cable television service provided by Virgin Media (known as Virgin TV ); a free-to-air satellite service called Freesat; and a free-to-air digital terrestrial service ...
Digital terrestrial television launched in the UK on 15 November 1998, just after digital satellite television on 1 October 1998. The technology required that the UK government license the broadcast of channels in six groups, or multiplexes (abbreviated to 'mux') labelled 1, 2, A, B, C, and D. [2] The Independent Television Commission (ITC ...
CBeebies (8 C, 150 P) Channel 4 television channels (12 P) Channel 5 (British TV channel) (2 C, 21 P, 1 F) Community television channels in the United Kingdom (5 P) CSC Media Group (26 P)
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.