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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.
Today, the experimental community TV cable channels which briefly served places like Swindon, Milton Keynes and Greenwich are remembered as curios from a television past, but they are better understood as a precursor to the push to make the fourth TV channel a radically different platform for voices and experiences ignored by mainstream television.
Apr 23, 2024 · Key Details. DIRECTV is removing four channels from DIRECTV STREAM’s Entertainment Package for current subscribers. Impacted customers have been contacted and provided details on how they can keep the channels. The move is aimed get the Entertainment Packages for all three of DIRECTV’s subscription options in line. 5-Day Free Trial.
Nov 2, 2020 · With literally hundreds of channels and on-demand services now available, it's perhaps hard to imagine a world where viewing options were limited to just three linear TV channels - but that was exactly the case until this day in 1982, when Channel 4 burst onto the airwaves across the UK.
- 1994. June. Note: DirecTV was launched on June 17, 1994 and these were the following channels that were added on the lineup. Channel # Network. Notes. 101-199.
- 1995. January. Channel # Network. Notes. 252. CNN International. launched. 304. Golf Channel. February. 307. New England Sports Network. added. June.
- 1996. January. Channel # Network. Notes. 252. CNNfn. launched (shared with CNN International) 283. CBS (KPIX-San Francisco) added (part-time night only) 285. NBC (KNBC-Los Angeles)
- 1997. February. Channel # Network. Notes. 266. IFC. expanded to full-time. 312. SportSouth. renamed Fox Sports South. Channels moved for re-alignment. 967. Lifetime. moved to 962.
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.
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The fourth channel was to constitute a third force in UK broadcasting. As some of us saw it, it would be the Research and Development arm of British television. Channel 4 would start up in...