Starting today, I am running a series of daily articles about each of the free television channels on the Freeview, Freesat and fSfS (Freesat from Sky) platforms.

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 31st January 2012 at 12:16}

Each article will address the following:

How is the free channel paid for?
Is the channel live, pre-recorded, new content or repeats?
What's the channel's unique selling point?
The programme schedule
The bits to avoid

I will be starting today with ... BBC One.

All questions

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Comments

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Anne billinge
12:17 PM
Leek

I live in and can get BBC1,2,3,4 and ITV1, ITV1+1 & 2, E4 & More4 but cannot get ITV3,4 or Film4.
Any much appreciated.
annie

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Dave Lindsay

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12:37 PM

Anne billinge: The does not carry the Commercial which include ITV3, ITV4 and Film 4 as it is used by the Public Service Broadcasters only.

The Commercial broadcasters operate to make a profit with no "Public Service" requirement. They choose where to site their transmitters and do so in locations where they can get as many potential viewers for as little cost as possible.

They achieve a 90% coverage of the population by broadcasting from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population). There are around 1,100 small "filler-in" transmitters such as the one in Leek. However, to transmit from all these sites would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding 8.5% of the population to their potential viewer base.

For a more in-depth explanation, see Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

The problem for you is that the hills are blocking from main stations such as , which is why the Leek transmitter was installed.

Probably your only and best way of getting extra free to air is .

See here for a comparison:

Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

ITV3 is available on Freesat.

Dave and Yesterday are not.

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