Now, we don’t want to worry you, but there’s a danger that there’ll be some Freeview hassle to look forward to in 2018. OK, so this is a long way off, but we thought we’d give you as much advance notice as possible… More Freeview HD Let’s soften you up with the good news. Ofcom [...]

The five year Digital Switchover is now complete – Last night, the final analogue TV transmitters in Northern Ireland were taken out of service, and the UK’s TV service is now fully digital. Bye Bye to Analogue So, that’s it for analogue… the TV system that the UK has been using for the last seventy [...]

Freeview viewers can expect a re-shuffle of some of the TV channel numbers on the 19th of September 2012, it’s been revealed Here is a summary of the changes: Channel 8:  (England and Northern Ireland) will become the slot for “local TV”. We can expect up to 21 local TV services in the UK. In [...]

Finally, YouView boxes are now available, but at £299, we’re not sure how many folk will be dashing out this weekend to buy one. The first box to be released is the Humax DTR-T1000, and here’s what it offers: Humax DTR-T1000 Humax DTR-T1000 is a combined Freeview receiver, HDD recorder and Internet TV box. As [...]

Broadband provider TalkTalk is set to re-enter the digital TV market, offer a combined Freeview plus Internet TV service. After having suspended its last TV service (originally Tiscali TV) to new customers last year, TalkTalk has unwrapped details of the new offering. As one of the partners of the YouView project, they will be offering [...]

A new channel from Channel 4, launched this evening (4th July 2012) at 7pm 4seven essentially runs re-broadcasts of very recent shows, for those that missed a Channel 4 show. Given that many of us now have a PVR hard disk recorder (such as Sky+ or Freeview+), recording shows and series is now pretty easy [...]

One on the Radio and Telly team was asked to appear on this morning’s breakfast show on BBC Radio Norfolk to discuss problems with Freeview after the digital switchover. Talking to Chris Goreham on BBC Radio Norfolk at 08:40 this morning, Pete from our site talked about the problems experienced by those in the Anglia [...]

The PVR is the best thing to hit the TV scene since the end of Crossroads. It’s changed the way we watch our TV, and whether you have a Sky+, Virgin Tivo, BT Vision or one of the many Freeview and Freesat hard-disk recorders, it’s now increasingly hard not to get a recording of your [...]

It seems that around 900,000 homes may need to get a special filter to be able to keep on watching Freeview from 2013. We first reported on this story in June 2011 (Freeview Interference Forecast), when it was estimated that 760,000 homes could be affected. The Government now puts the estimate at nearer 900,000 Freeview [...]

Sports channel ESPN will be making its channel available to everyone for free, for one weekend in February. Between 6am on the morning of Friday 3rd February 2012, and 6am on Monday the 6th February 2012, the ESPN channel will be free-to-view on the following services: Freeview Sky BT Vision Top Up TV The following [...]

There’s been a set-back in the plans for a new Freeview HD channel. Back in 2010, Channel 5 was planning to launch its HD channel on Freeview, but decided that it didn’t want to launch after all – Instead, the channel went to the BBC for its second HD channel. The licence for the fifth [...]

Some Freeview channel news to report: Channel 5 HD to launch on Freeview In the recent bidding for the fifth HD channel on the Freeview platform, only one channel submitted a bid, and that was Channel 5. It appears that regulator OfCom has granted Channel 5 the licence, and we can expect Channel 5 HD [...]

By April 2012, we could be in line for a new HD channel on Freeview, in addition to the existing four Freeview HD channels available at the moment. Currently, there are four HD channels on Freeview: BBC One HD, BBC HD,  ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD. Bandwidth on the Freeview platform is at a [...]

Up to 760,000 homes in the UK may find that they start to experience interference to Freeview from 2013, according to a report from OfCom. As you’re probably aware, the UK Digital Switchover is set to be complete by the end of 2012. Once this has been done, a part of the spectrum that was [...]

On the 8th of June 2011, the Gaelic-language TV service BBC Alba launched on the Freeview platform. The station, which launched in 2008, has previously been available to Sky and Virgin viewers, is now available from Freeview transmitters in Scotland, and can be found on Freeview Channel 8. The channel’s normal broadcasting hours are 5pm [...]

We’re shortly to see a new Freeview channel appear, and for once it’s not a shopping channel or a Babestation service. Really! TV company UKTV already offers Dave and Yesterday on Freeview, and it has just announced that it will soon be adding ‘Really‘ to the lineup. Really will join the Freeview lineup from the [...]

Sky’s just launched a new advertising campaign – an extension of its “Believe in Better” catchphrase. Watching the ad several times today, the team at Radio and Telly HQ couldn’t help noticing something familiar in the logo at the end of the latest Sky TV ad. Here’s a screenshot from the end of the advert: [...]

Dates have now been announced for much of Southern England’s digital TV switchover. Key dates for those in the Meridian TV region have been announced as follows: Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey – 8 Feb 2012 Parts of West Sussex – 29 Feb 2012 Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, parts of Dorset and West Sussex – [...]

This weekend (11-13th Feb 2011), Sky will be offering a free weekend pass to Freeview, BT Vision and Top Up TV customers. Sky will be broadcasting a showcase of some of their key programmes on the Sky 3 channel, which is free-to-air on Freeview channel 11. On Friday the 11th, shows broadcast will include Karl [...]

January has been a busy month for TV and Technology, and there are a lot of  changes in the pipeline for February, especially for Sky customers. Our podcast lads, Pete and Carl, have been hard at work on a new show, and FrequencyCast Show 60 is now available. If you’ve not heard the show before, [...]