As has been announced previously, it’s hoped that the upcoming Freeview HD service will hopefully be up-and-running for around 50% of the UK in time for the 2010 World Cup next June.

To support Freeview HD, existing Freeview services will have to shuffle around, to free up some space. As channel renumbering tends to catch many users out, there’s talk of a National re-tuning exercise happening, and discussion are currently going on to find ways of letting 18 million Freeview users know that they need to make a change – options under discussion include onscreen warnings and leaflets.

Expect to hear more of re-tuning as we get closer to June 2010.