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Freeview and service
The News Multiscreen was removed from the digital service in October 2009, to make room for future Freeview HD broadcasts.
A consortium made up of the BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle International was granted ITV Digital's old broadcasting licence, and launched the Freeview service on 30 October 2002, offering 30 free-to-air TV channels and 20 free-to-air radio channels including several interactive channels such as BBCi and Teletext but no subscription or premium services.
Had the move been successful, this could have threatened to undermine the fledgling Freeview service, since at the time most digital terrestrial receivers were former ONdigital and ITV Digital units.
New channels broadcast by the commercial networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called Freeview ( Australia ) to viewers in Traralgon and the Gippsland
A subscription-based DTT service, Top Up TV, launched in March 2004 using unused channel space on multiplexes that were owned by parties who, at the time, were not members of the Freeview consortium.
The Top Up TV service is not connected with the Freeview service ; it simply runs alongside it on the DTT platform.
It was possible to receive Top Up TV on selected Freeview set-top boxes or televisions equipped with a card slot or CI slot, however, this was replaced in 2006 by " Top Up TV Anytime ", a service which requires a proprietary set top box.
With two channels ( BBC HD and ITV1 HD ) Freeview HD completed a " technical launch " on 2 December 2009 from Winter Hill ( as a full power service ) and Crystal Palace ( as a reduced power temporary service ) and operates on multiplex BBC B ( aka Multiplex B or PSB3 ) from that date in regions that switched-over on or after that date, with the service coming to all regions by the end of 2012.
Freeview HD is the first operational TV service in the world using the DVB-T2 standard.
The BBC proposed to ensure compliance with copy-protection standards on the upgraded Freeview HD multiplex by compressing the service information ( SI ) data, which receivers need to understand the TV services in the data stream.
, 77 % of the UK population can receive the full Freeview service, with more able to receive some channels before digital switchover and all channels after Coverage is being increased as digital switchover takes place across the UK.
Wales is the first nation to complete the digital switchover with its analogue services replaced by high-powered digital signals carrying the Freeview service.
The Freeview service underwent a major upgrade on 30 September 2009 which required 18 million households to retune their Freeview receiving equipment.
The vast majority of channels are available free-to-air through the Freeview service, with a small number of subscription channels available from Top Up TV.
A high-definition service called (" clear picture "), simulcasting S4C's main channel, began transmission on 30 April 2010 on Freeview channel 53 in Wales.
Similar services such as Saorview available in the United Kingdom ( i. e. Freeview ) and other parts of Europe ( i. e. TNT ) are not compatible with Ireland's DTT service.
Instead, the service is only available on DAB Digital Radio and on Digital television through operators on satellite services, such as Sky, cable operators, such as Virgin Media, DTT services, such as Freeview, and on IPTV.
It is also available on the Freeview satellite service.
In the UK the BBC introduced content protection restrictions in Summer 2010 on Free to Air content by licensing data necessary to receive the service information for the Freeview HD broadcasts.

Freeview and broadcasts
Local transmitters retransmit UK Freeview broadcasts.
Channel 4 HD commenced test broadcasts on 25 March 2010 with an animated caption, ahead of its full launch on 30 March 2010, coinciding with the commercial launch of Freeview HD.
Approximately 27 % of households were in a location that could not receive Freeview broadcasts in 2006.
As a result, S4C now broadcasts solely in Welsh language and, as well as on Freeview in Wales, is available throughout Britain, Ireland and the rest of western Europe on Freesat and Sky.
In addition to the AM output, the station also broadcasts digitally on DAB Digital Radio, and on television through satellite services such as Sky, cable services such as Virgin Media, DTT services such as Freeview and through IPTV.
The domestic CBeebies channel broadcasts from 06: 00 to 19: 00 each day-a result of the channel sharing bandwidth with the channel BBC Four on the Freeview platform.
It now broadcasts on cable, satellite, and Freeview.
It now broadcasts live for almost 18 hours a day from 07: 45 to 01: 30. bid is available on Freeview 23, Virgin Media 745, Sky 654, Freesat 802 and Wightcable 704
In April 2008 TV3 commenced 1080i high definition broadcasts on the Freeview | HD terrestrial platform and on SKY Network Television's HD satellite platform.
A Digital Terrestrial version of Freeview was launched in 2008, which, unlike the analog and satellite options, supports high definition broadcasts.
It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV.
Around this time, the station announced plans to launch on Freeview ( digital terrestrial television ); broadcasts began on Monday 12 April 2010.
The station now broadcasts for 19. 5 to 20 hours a day ( 0530 – 0100 on weekdays, 0500 – 0100 at weekends ) and is also available on DAB digital radio and Freeview within Wales and via satellite TV.
The TF5800PVR has been replaced by the TF5810PVRt with similar functionality, but which also supports HDMI output ( from standard, but not HD, broadcasts — reception of Freeview HD channels requires a DVB-T2 receiver, which the TF5810PVRt is not ).
It broadcasts on the DAB Digital Radio Digital 1 national multiplex and on Sky, Freesat, Freeview, Virgin Media and online as well as regional FM and DAB frequencies in the North West, London, North East, West Midlands, Scotland and East Midlands.
A significant amount of terrestrial transmission overspill exists between transmissions from north and south of the Irish border, with a large portion of the population of Northern Ireland currently able to receive digital terrestrial television and analogue television broadcasts from the Republic, and many in the Border Region of the Republic and beyond able to receive UK Freeview transmissions from North of the border.
Launched in September, 2000, the channel broadcasts from 05: 00am – 08: 00am each day on Freeview, 24 hours a day on Sky and Virgin TV, and anytime with video on demand.
Revelation TV is a UK Christian television channel started by Howard ( an ex-Jehovah's Witness ) and Lesley Conder in 2003 ; the channel broadcasts on Freesat channel 692, Sky channel 581, and on Freeview HD channel 113.

Freeview and free-to-air
At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.
** Freeview, free-to-air digital terrestrial HD and SD content.
Also, New Zealand's free-to-air digital television network, Freeview, provides live coverage of the debating chamber when it is in session on Parliament TV.
DTV Services, trading as Freeview, is the name for the collection of free-to-air services on the Digital Terrestrial Television platform in the UK.
Freeview is a non-profit organisation providing free-to-air digital television and digital radio to New Zealand.
When the channel became free, it also returned to digital terrestrial as part of the Freeview brand, and became completely free-to-air on satellite television.
Ftn ( Flextech Television Network ) was a television channel from Virgin Media Television ( formerly known as Flextech ) transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital.
The rebrand included the channel being available free-to-air on digital terrestrial platform, Freeview, replacing UKTV Bright Ideas which only averaged 0. 1 % of the audience share.
In the UK, around 70 free-to-air television channels and 25 free-to-air radio channels are available terrestrially via the Freeview DVB-T service, including up-to four HD channels ( via DVB-T2 ).
The channel was encrypted as part of the basic Sky package, and therefore was not free-to-air, in contrast to its unencrypted status on Freeview and cable television.
On 2 May 2005, Men & Motors launched as free-to-air channel on the Freeview digital terrestrial television service.
The channel was available free-to-air on the British digital terrestrial television service Freeview on channel 18.
On 7 May 2007, a consortium of broadcasters including TVNZ, TVWorks ( owners of TV3 and C4 ), Maori Television Service, and Radio New Zealand launched the non-profit, free-to-air Freeview service ; the only digital free-to-air system in New Zealand.
The vast majority of digital cable television services are provided by Virgin Media with satellite television available from Freesat or British Sky Broadcasting and free-to-air digital terrestrial television by Freeview.
All the major analogue broadcasters provide additional channels on the free-to-air Freeview digital television service, and all of these channels can be accessed via a cable or satellite provider, such as Virgin Media or BSkyB.
On 19 April 2006, Ofcom ruled that, on request of each multiplex operator, the ' free-to-air channels only ' requirement put in place at the launch of Freeview in 2002 may be lifted on Multiplex B, C and D. The effect of this ruling is that if a Mux operator requests the restriction to be lifted, their multiplex may carry pay TV services.
Formed after the two other TMF stations, which are based in mainland Europe, the channel was created to counter against EMAP's The Hits channel ( now 4Music ) on the new free-to-air digital terrestrial television service Freeview in 2002.
Pick TV is a British television channel, available free-to-air on Freeview, Sky, TalkTalk TV, and via subscription on Virgin Media.

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