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Apr 7, 2011 · 31 March 1997: Channel 5 begins broadcasting. 1 October 1998: BSkyB begins digital TV transmissions from a new generation of satellites as Sky Digital. 2000s. 22 October 2002: UK’s Freeview free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) service officially begins. 2 February 2004: Merger of Granada Television and Carlton Television is ...
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK and Australia division. It was launched in 1997 to provide a fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom.
13 November – The Broadcasting Act 1980 paves the way for a fourth television channel in the UK. The channel is established as a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). A subscription is levied on the ITV companies to pay for the channel; they sell Channel 4's airtime in return. 1981.
Dr Simon Cross, Nottingham Trent University, looks back at the impetus behind the creation of Channel 4, namely to widen the register of public discourse by extending the range and diversity of voices on British TV.
Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV, with BBC2 the last to launch in 1964. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth; Channel 4 was formally created, along with its Welsh counterpart, by an act of Parliament in 1982.
Channel 4 is free-to-air and freely available to all of the UK. We have the UK’s biggest free streaming service, plus a network of six television channels. Since Channel 4 was created in 1982...
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Aug 2, 2021 · November 1982 marked an exciting and important milestone in British broadcasting when Channel 4 and its corresponding service in Wales, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C), began transmitting programmes in all the ITV regions: the first new and distinctive television service in the United Kingdom for nearly twenty years.
