Round Up: Freeview News and Reviews
03 September 2010
The Bill ‘Catches’ Over 4 Million Viewers With Final EpisodesFor 26 years The Bill has brought policing off the streets and into our living rooms, allowing law abiding TV fans to see what happens to the naughtier side of society when they get arrested by the ‘old Bill’. Following the dramas of Sun Hill, series [...]
Round Up: Freeview News and Reviews
27 August 2010
After 11 weeks, Big Brother announced its winner of 2010. Josie took the reality TV title on Tuesday night only to be thrown back in the house again with ghosts from BB past. Now Josie has left, again, ex-housemates Nikki, Brian, Chantelle and Preston (above), to name a few, are now locked in a battle [...]
Want to win a Technika Freeview HD box?
26 August 2010
Tesco have reduced the price of their Technika Freeview HD box to £70!! With a HD Ready TV and HD coverage, you’ll be able to receive the BBC HD Channel, ITV1 and Channel 4, all in glorious high definition. Plus, with Freeview, you also get up to 50 standard digital channels including ITV2, E4, BBC [...]
Endless Freeview HD Entertainment for only £70 at Tesco
21 August 2010
As we settled down to watch ‘The Queen’ on Channel4 last night, we spotted something that we had to share with you -Tesco have reduced their Technika Freeview HD boxes from £100 to £70! So now you can give your wallet a break and enjoy endless entertainment with Freeview HD for only £70. That stacks [...]
Round Up: Freeview News and Reviews
20 August 2010
News How does one consume media? By multi-tasking, that’s how. Ofcom’s yearly report was released this week and it proves that we are a media-hungry society spending half our waking life consuming media in one way or another. That’s a whopping seven and a half hours a day, through mediums such as TV, internet and [...]
Round Up: Freeview News and Reviews
30 July 2010
Sports fans can soon opt-in to receive Sky Sports channels on Freeview, thanks to Top Up TV offering its services to Freeview customers.As with all Top Up TV viewing packs, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 will be available for a simple monthly fee. But just like Freeview, they’re not tied to any lengthy [...]
Round Up: Freeview News and Reviews
12 July 2010
Al Jazeera English joined the Freeview channel line up on 1 July, with a mixture of live news and studio programming from London, Washington and Doha. The Qatar-based news channel airs live from 6pm to 11pm daily on channel 89. Read moreThis week marks the end of an era, as retailers have officially stopped selling [...]
Round-Up: News and Reviews
28 June 2010
In the news…Last Friday, The BBC Trust today approved Project Canvas, its venture to bring internet TV to Freeview and Freesat. The project, subject to certain conditions, is expected to go live next year. Read moreSky Sports News will be leaving Freeview later this year, to be replaced with Sky Three+1. Read moreAnd Ofcom recently announced that [...]
Weekly Round Up: News and Reviews
04 June 2010
Last week the BBC announced plans to launch BBC One HD this Autumn. The high-definition simulcast the BBC One schedule will see some of the BBC’s most loved programmes including The Apprentice, EastEnders and QI move to HD by the end of this year.The BBC HD channel will continue to showcase the best of the [...]
Freeview+ HD goes in store
02 June 2010
We’ve been popping up at shopping centres around the UK to share our excitement about Freeveiw+ HD with you. We’re hosting a prize draw and one lucky shopper will win the ultimate World Cup viewing experience — watching and recording the action with Freeview+ HD!Last week we visited Brent Cross, The White Rose in Leeds [...]
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Yesterday Competition
27 August 2010
To Celebrate the Spirit of 1940 season, Freeview have teamed up with the channel Yesterday to offer you the chance to win a Samsung 40" LCD TV and a Freeview+ box Yesterday have commissioned a series of exclusive programmes that celebrate the Spirit of 1940 and commemorate the 70th anniversary of this astounding year. Catch the programmes that take a look back at when Britian experienced the Blitz, saw the start of food rationing and sent evacuees away from their homes. Spirit of 1940 programming is on week nights at 9pm starting with The First Day of the Blitz on Tuesday 7th September 2010. Enter your details below for a chance to win the TV and Freeview+ box, so you'll never miss your favourite yesterday programmes again. Good luck!
Updated Freeview statement on the loss of electronic TV guide on certain older Inverto, Digifusion, Sony and Thomson products
14 July 2010
We have recently been made aware that a small number of people have experienced the loss of use of their electronic TV guide (EPG). The vast majority of Freeview customers in over 18m homes throughout the UK are unaffected by this problem.
HD Goes Freeview
29 March 2010
High definition television comes of age today with the launch of the new HD service from Freeview, the UK’s most popular digital TV platform.
Freeview Launches iPhone App
16 February 2010
New Freeview HD TV Guide offers listings, search and recommendations for millions of Freeview viewers.
Freeview Viewers in Sheffield to Retune on 17 March 2010
20 January 2010
Freeview viewers receiving a signal from the Sheffield transmitter will need to retune their equipment on Wednesday 17 March to continue watching BBC services. The retune is required to prepare local transmitters for the future rollout of HD (high definition) channels on Freeview.
Freeview Passes 10 Million Benchmark
2 December 2009
Rapid growth boosted by switchover success
Freeview today announced that it has passed a key benchmark to become the main-set TV service in 10 million UK homes.
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Final Countdown to Freeview National Retune 30 September 2009
16 September 2009
Campaign to remind viewers to retune gets underway.
A national upgrade of the Freeview service is just two weeks away and viewers are being reminded to retune their equipment from lunchtime on Wednesday, 30 September* so they can continue receiving all channels and services available to them, including Five.
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TV Stars Drive New Freeview Campaign
31 August 2009
Freeview, the UK’s most popular digital TV service, today unveiled its latest £4 million national and regional television campaign featuring a host of British TV talent from across the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 schedules.
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Freeview launches ‘Remember to Retune’ campaign
28 July 2009
To encourage regular retuning to make sure viewers are receiving all Freeview channels and services available to them, Freeview is launching its ‘Remember to Retune’ campaign ahead of an upgrade of the Freeview service which will require viewers to retune on or after Wednesday 30 September this year.
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Quest Channel Launch Boosted by First Freeview Site Sponsorship
29 April 2009
Latest update: Quest has postponed its launch citing commercial factors.
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Tim Hunt Joins Freeview as Director of Marketing Communications
29 April 2009
Freeview has appointed Tim Hunt as Director of Marketing Communications. Tim replaces Rob Farmer who joins ITV as Director of Viewer Marketing at the beginning of May.
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Freeview upgrades iPhone app for iOS 4 users following user feedback
24 August 2010
Version 1.1 for easier TV planning, favourite programme sharing and searching of Freeview content
How to buy a flatscreen TV
21 June 2010
If you've held out from buying an HD flatscreen TV this long, you have inadvertently made a very clever decision.
With the launch of Freeview HD you can now get the most from you new TV right from the off.
4Music’s BlogStar!
4 June 2010
We want to run a competition fronted by likable duo Matt & Darren to find a self-motivated, enthusiastic music fan who is digitally savvy and ideally already an active blogger with a healthy online following. The winner will spend 3 months with the 4Music online team and help create fresh and exciting content which we wholly own the rights to. We will encourage them to work on the following...
Freeview launches iPhone app - the Freeview HD TV Guide
16 February 2010
Just as the first Freeview HD boxes arrive instore Freeview has launched its new iPhone app.
Now you can plan your viewing whilst you are on the go and make sure you catch your favourite programmes.
First Freeview HD boxes go on sale in London
12 February 2010
It was only last week we saw the first review of the Humax HD-FOX T2 box on Tech Radar.
They are now in John Lewis on Oxford Street and available from other retailers from Monday (15/2).
CNN Competition
9 December 2009
Keep up with all of the latest world news and debate, on the move, with an iPod nano from CNN.
Freeview HD latest news
10 December 2009
Wednesday 2nd December saw the technical launch of Freeview HD. The BBC HD and ITV 1 HD transmission is now live from the TV masts in London (Crystal Palace) and the Granada TV region (Winter Hill).
Freeview on your PC
17 September 2009
TV tuner giveaway – Try it out and tell your friends!
Autumn 2009 New Season on Freeview
2 September 2009
The nights may be drawing in on our 'Barbecue Summer' but fortunately there's a rich choice of new drama, entertainment and factual programmes on Freeview to dazzle you this Autumn (Generation Kill, Channel 4).
Film4 Summer Screen Competition
14 July 2009
The Film4 Summer Screen returns for another year and Freeview have got a pair of tickets to give away!