4seven has launched

July 5th, 2012 by Radio&Telly in Catch-up TV, Digital TV, FreeSat, Freeview, Freeview Channels, Sky Digital

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 [...]


Heat TV Set To Launch Music Channel

June 13th, 2012 by Radio&Telly in Digital TV, Sky Digital, Virgin Media

Entertainment magazine Heat is set to launch a new music TV channel on the 3rd of July 2012 The new channel is set to appear on both Sky and Virgin’s digital TV platform , giving Heat a magazine, website, radio station and TV channel. The channel will carry a mixture of rolling celebrity news and [...]


Channel 4 HD finally hits Freesat

April 22nd, 2011 by Radio&Telly in FreeSat, High Definition

Despite being available on Sky, Virgin and Freeview for a while now, Channel 4 HD has finally made it onto the Freesat platform. This brings the number of channels on Freesat up to four. When Freesat launched, the only HD service on offer was the BBC HD service. ITV’s HD service launched in June 2008 (via the [...]


IT Crowd Version 4.0

June 18th, 2010 by Radio&Telly in Digital TV

Tech geeks – time to fire up your PVR, and set your series link to record the bytes transmitted by Channel 4 on the 25 of June 2010. Series 4 of the cult comedy The IT Crowd, charting the day-to-day IT challenges facing the Roy and Moss, the basement-dwelling IT support nerds, that introduced the [...]


Channel 4 HD launches on Freeview

March 30th, 2010 by Radio&Telly in Freeview, High Definition

Channel 4 has today, 30th March 2010, launched its HD service on Freeview. If you’re in a Freeview HD coverage area, and have a Freeview HD receiver, then you’ll find Channel 4 HD on Freeview channel 52. Channel 4 HD is also available on Sky and Virgin’s HD service.


SeeSaw Internet TV launches today

February 17th, 2010 by Radio&Telly in Catch-up TV, Internet TV

SeeSaw, a new Internet-based TV service, has gone live today. SeeSaw offers TV content from the BBC, Channel 4, Five, and a small selection of ITV content. SeeSaw was created after Project Kangaroo was outlawed by the Competition Commission in 2009. SeeSaw is currently offering over 3,000 hours of TV content including Green Wing, The [...]


Channel 4 to go 3D

August 23rd, 2009 by Radio&Telly in Digital TV

Channel 4 is set to experiment with a week of 3D TV in a matter of weeks. This Autumn, 4 will run a week of peak-time programming in 3D, including rare 1953 colour 3D footage of the Queen’s coronation, Derren Brown’s 3D Magic Spectacular, Jaws 3D and the Greatest Ever 3D Moments. 3D will be [...]