Freeview

Freeview homes with selected internet connected TVs and set-up boxes can now subscribe to a number of pay-TV channels. VuTV is a new channel streaming service offering Comedy Central, MTV, CNN, Lifetime®, HISTORY®, H2®, Crime & Investigation Network, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Nick Jr., Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Cartoonito for £6.99 a month. Programmes cannot be recorded…

Set top box maker Humax has unveiled a new internet connected Freeview+ HD model which also offers access to BBC iPlayer and selected web apps. The HDR-2000T/500GB offers 500GB of recording space – enough for 125 hours of high definition and 300 hours of standard definition – the ability to record two channels at once or…

Freeview has launched a new advertising campaign highlighting its non-subscription nature. Based around the slogan ‘Entertainment. It’s even better when it’s free’, the campaign builds on Freeview’s message that it offers 95 per cent of the nation’s most-watched programmes. A new 60 second advert for the platform will air during Saturday’s X Factor on 5th…

Film4, the free to air movie channel owned by Channel 4, is to relaunch its +1 variant on Freeview. The channel was previously available on Freeview but was dropped in August 2007 to make way for Channel 4+1 but has continued to be broadcast on Sky, Virgin and Freesat services. News of the channel’s return…