TV shopping channel Argos TV has closed down. The TV version of the laminated book of dreams started broadcasting in 2011, showcasing hundreds of products found in Argos catalogues in their high street stores across the county. The channel formerly broadcast 24 hours a day. The reason for the station’s closure is cited as being [...]

Freeview channel 32 has undergone a change today. Until today, the channel was labelled Big Deal, but has today has become Movie Mix The channel seems to have something of a split personality. What we understand is that the channel does the following: Runs the Bid Plus TV shopping channel from 9am to 8pm Runs [...]

BT Vision users, or those with new YouView boxes from BT, are in for a bunch of new channels “soon” Various announcements over the last few weeks have show that BT has been putting in a lot of legwork to increase the number of TV channels available to its customers. The recent deals aren’t just [...]

Yet another Freeview channel shuffle has taken place today, but this one’s unlikely to be a bother to anyone… Two text channels have moved from the PSB2 to the COM4 multiplex, meaning that if you’re a dedicated follower of either of these channels, you’ll need to do a rescan: Channel 202 – Rabbit Channel 203 [...]

Earlier today, there were a number of changes made to the Freeview channel numbers. Changes were as follows: The Freeview HD channels moved to channels 100 to channels 105 The Al Jazeera news channel has been removed from channel 84 The Adult channels moved to further now the channel list. They’re now numbered from 171 [...]

The text service Teletext Holidays left Freeview today, the 1st of October 2012 This marks the end of 15 years of the TV text-based holiday breaks service. Until recently, the service was operated by the Daily Mail. The owners made the following statement recently: “Teletext Holidays has been a television platform for over 15 years, [...]

News of a few minor changes to the Freeview Channel lineup in the last few days: Vanished Channels The following two channels have disappeared: Channel 62 – TV Stars Channel 90 – TV News These two channels have always been something of a mystery. These channels appear to be registered in the name of “Cellcast [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new channel, “The Space”, has been added to the Freeview lineup, and is available to those with an Internet-enabled Freeview receiver via channel 117. The channel is operating from the 1st of May to the 31st of October 2012 only, and is an experimental service managed by the Arts Council in partnership with the [...]

The Connect TV service appears to have now launched on the Freeview platform, offering an extra 45 channels of TV. Connect TV has had a number of placeholder channels active between channels 110 and 116 for a while, and some of the services switched on February. It seems that the initial offering has been finalised, [...]

We’ve just noticed that a new placeholder channel has been added to the Freeview lineup: Racing UK (Channel 116) At the moment, the channel is just a placeholder, but here’s what we know so far: The channel appears to be part of the Internet TV services planned by IP Vision. We’re assuming that when this [...]

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 [...]

The BBC is set to close the BBC HD channel, as part of proposals for cost-savings. The BBC HD service launched as a trial service in 2006, and was the first free-to-view HD channel in the UK. As part of the BBC’s cost-cutting proposal “Delivering Quality First”, the HD channel is set to be scrapped [...]

We’re getting a number of enquiries about the mysterious appearance of three new channels on Freeview: Channel 110 – Vision Channel 111 – Connect Channel 112 – Stream The on-screen caption reports that these are new channels coming soon to Freeview HD. At first glance, the idea of three new HD channels coming to Freeview [...]

It look like the cuisine channel The Food Network is set to come to Freeview. The Food Network is based in the US, and is owned by Scripps Networks and Tribune Company, and is currently available on Sky and Freesat. Content on the Food Network includes various instructional cooking shows, plus shows on healthy eating, [...]

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 [...]

A new channel, QVC Beauty, has joined the Freeview lineup. The channel, a shopping channel, has appeared on Freeview channel 48, and broadcasts from 8am to 1pm daily, sharing the slot with Rocks & Co 1, Babestation, Al Jazeera English and TV News. QVC Beauty is not the mysterious “TBA channel” that continues to the [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a new service, TView, appeared on Freeview channel 32. The Tview service allowed Freeview viewers to watch a small selection of movies by paying for access using an SMS text message, and getting a viewing PIN in return. After just two weeks, the service has been removed. A message on [...]