Viewers on the Freeview platform will soon gain two additional screens on the BBC’s News Multiscreen Service. From the end of February Sports Headline and UK Weather will join the existing news screens.
Pete Clifton, Head of News Interactive, described the news as “a fantastic development for our Freeview audience, giving them access to up-to-the minute sports news and UK weather to accompany the existing news service.”
The move follows the recent improvement which saw BBC Parliament transformed from a quarter screen and text service into a regular full-sized channel.