BBC World News and World Business Report air at 5. 00 on both channels and in lieu of commercials seen on the international broadcasts, the presenters give a brief update on UK news for domestic audiences.

Nowadays the UK has many channels ( for example Gold ) which repackage and rebroadcast " classic " programming from both sides of the Atlantic.

This was followed by Noggin the Nog for the BBC, which established Smallfilms as a safe and reliable pair of hands to produce children's entertainment, when there were only two UK television channels.

Discovery UK also operates many additional channels: Discovery HD, Discovery Knowledge, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Science, Animal Planet, DMAX, Discovery Real Time, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Travel & Leisure and Discovery Shed.

However, in November 1981 ( after high-profile public demonstrations ) 40 frequencies unique to the UK, known as the 27 / 81 Bandplan using FM were allocated at 27 MHz plus 20 channels on 934 MHz ( 934. 0125 to 934. 9625 MHz with 50-kHz-spacing ).

On 1 September 1987 the UK added the usual 40 frequencies ( 26. 965 – 27. 405 MHz ) used worldwide, for a total of 80 channels at 27 MHz ; antenna regulations were further relaxed, and the 934 MHz band was withdrawn in 1998.

When UK television channels wish to broadcast the show, they are forced to use US versions ; such was the case with Boomerang in 2007.

The video was also subsequently banned by all UK television channels.

Freeview channels can be received at no charge ( other than the annual television licence required for television reception required for all viewers of broadcast television in the UK which must be purchased by anyone who has and uses the appropriate equipment to receive television signals ).

, 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.

It also founded two of the UK's earliest cable television channels, Lifestyle and Screensport through its WHSTV division, which were carried on almost every cable system in the UK and Ireland prior to the start of Sky Television.

After its original run it has been shown repeatedly on PBS and satellite channels such as Telemundo in the United States, CBC in Canada, TV1 in Australia, TVB in Hong Kong, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and ITV3, Cartoon Network on 11 June 2012, in the UK, Disney Channel Asia in Southeast Asia, TV3 in Malaysia, MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore, ABS-CBN in the Philippines and RCTI in Indonesia.

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S4C is controlled by the S4C Authority (), an independent body unconnected to Ofcom, the regulator of other UK television channels such as ITV and Channel 4.

In 2001, UK and Irish terrestrial channels became available to Irish Sky customers for the first time.

The Freesat a UK service is also available in the country, as are FTA satellite channels from several other European countries.

In rural areas where neither cable or MMDS are available, UHF Television Programme Retransmission systems or deflectors pick up the UK terrestrial channels ( either from Northern Ireland or Wales ), and retransmit them on local UHF signals along with other channels.

Free and subscription providers are available, with differences in the number of channels, capabilities such as the programme guide ( EPG ), video on demand ( VOD ), high-definition ( HD ), interactive television via the red button, and coverage across the UK.

It has been repeated on 3 other channels in the UK: Challenge, Dave and 4Music.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

These were used by the Interflora florists network in the UK for over a decade.

NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.

Other systems used the Viewdata protocols made popular in the UK by British Telecom's Prestel service, and the on-line magazine Micronet 800 whom were busy giving away modems with their subscriptions.

The Blackadder pilot was shot but never aired on terrestrial TV in the UK ( although some scenes were shown in the 25th anniversary special Blackadder Rides Again ).

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

Images of life around the UK were added in replacement later with the same music, together with footage of the newsroom and exterior of Television Centre.

Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

The UK had given aid to the royalist Greek forces and ELAS leaders who, failing to realize that there would be no Soviet aid and having boycotted the elections, were at a disadvantaged position.

" The UK Council for Psychotherapy issued a press release in 2012 saying that the IAPT's policies were undermining traditional psychotherapy and criticized proposals that would limit some approved therapies to CBT, claiming that they restricted patients to " a watered down version of cognitive behavioural therapy ( CBT ), often delivered by very lightly trained staff ".

It is believed that their origin lies in the Pakistani region of Baltistan, from where they were brought and pioneered by South Asian migrants to the UK.

This album failed to chart and, though " Find a Way " was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released.

These pieces were continuations of the original Coldcut audiovisual piece " Revolution " ( 2005 ) which used samples of the UK political elections as source footage.

In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

Indeed in the UK all residents were required to fill in the whole form but only a 10 % sample were coded and analysed in detail, until 2001.

An autumn 2004 caution from the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the UK agency dealing with drug safety, advised patients taking warfarin not to drink cranberry juice after adverse effects ( such as increased incidence of bruising ) were reported, possibly resulting from the presence of salicylic acid native to polyphenol-rich plants such as the cranberry.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on February 8, 2007, creating a single cable operator covering more than 95 % of the UK cable market.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

The Allies had been amply resupplied by the United States, which also had fresh armies ready for combat, but the UK and France were too war-weary to contemplate an invasion of Germany with its unknown consequences.