Freeview

The organisation responsible for allocating channel numbers to broadcasters on Freeview says viewers will need to retune their TVs and set top boxes in September. DMOL says it is renumbering channels to ensure any new channels are in the most logical and viewer-friendly parts of the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). A re-arrangement of the UK’s…

Digital TV platform Freeview has launched a new advertising campaign highlighting the free sport available to TV viewers this summer. Channels available via the service will be offering coverage of the Euros, Wimbledon, the Olympics and Paralympics without subscription. A 40 second ad, created by Leo Burnett, takes the viewer on a journey round a…

Echostar has unveiled a Freeview+ HD recorder which it says is the world’s slimmest digital TV recorder. Housed inside a sleek, 14mm aluminium chassis, the Ultra Slim Box (HDT-610R) goes on sale from 4th May and is available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk. As with all Freeview HD boxes, the device offers consumers subscription free TV…

The number of Freeview HD TVs and set top boxes sold reached 4.4 million by the end of December 2011, according to figures released today. Viewers with HD equipment can receive four HD channels (BBC One HD, The BBC HD Channel, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD) as well as up to 50 standard definition…

More than three million Freeview HD devices have been sold since the UK’s terrestrial HD TV service launched in March 2010. There are an estimated 18 million homes receiving Freeview, 10.2 million on their main television set. Of these 1.75 million are connected to the Freeview HD service according to figures released by the platform.…

Digital TV platform Freeview is hoping a “summer of subscription-free sport” will drive take-up of Freeview HD set-top-boxes which can offer up to 500 hours of HD storage.