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BBC News HD

BBC News is Britain's most watched news channel, providing live coverage and analysis of the most important breaking and developing stories - both within the UK and from around the World.

Main TV standard-definiton channels

How to Watch: BBC News HD

Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

Key: _{wb_sunny} daytime; _{watch_later} nighttime; _{account_box} funded from the TV License; flags show Freeview channel limits.

Choose from four options: ■ Show everything ■ Just on Freeview ■ Just on Freesat ■ Just on Sky

High definition channels

	Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	BBC News HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}			503	200

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

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media.info BBC News HD page.

Official site: See the www.bbc.co.uk link icon

BBC News HD website.

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About BBC News HD

Free channel of the day: BBC News Channel

BBC News Channel, Freeview 80, Freesat 200, Sky 503 and watch online

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 5th February 2012 at 09:18}

How is the free channel paid for?

The Ã‚Â£61.1m channel budget is funded by the Ã‚Â£3,596m Television Licence Fee, and represents 1.7% of all BBC spending.

Is the channel live, pre-recorded, new content or repeats?

The BBC News is a live broadcast, with some pre-recorded shows in the weekend schedule, which are pre-empted when there is serious breaking news.

What's the channel's unique selling point?

The most popular television news channel in the UK from the most respected and trusted news broadcaster.

The programme schedule

Shares with BBC One for Breakfast (6am-8:30am) another main daily bulletins (1pm, 6pm, 10pm). The rest of the daytime schedule is a combination of rolling news (back-to-back bulletins) and breaking news (live events), with mainly rolling news overnight.

The bits to avoid

As a single UK-wide channel, there is no TV regional news service, but a text round-up can be found by pressing the Red Button.

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Comments

Saturday, 10 October 2020

Chris.SE

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12:57 AM

Ray E:

Hmm. Well I'm now out of ideas except to have to come back to an earlier suggestion about checking that your downlead is undamaged and that your seems intact and pointing in the correct direction. You need to check for water ingress into the aerial connector box and your downlead as this is sounding rather like an issue of this sort.
I know there've been several people who've been having difficulty with COM7 (different transmitters) and the signal doesn't seem to be quite as resilient as it was before from COM8 were shifted to it and COM8 closed. However I don't think your frequent signal loss is as simple as that. You ought to have 100% in view of your predicted reception so I am thinking this is aerial and/or downlead.
My own signal strength is down slightly on what it used to be, but I do have 100% quality and it's never been less than that everytime I've checked.

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Thursday, 11 November 2021

Ray E
12:22 PM

In case my experience helps anyone else,finally, I discovered the source of this problem,I had a plastic bodied Y splitter in the system and one of the connectors was damaged,in fact it fell apart when I removed it, I replaced it with an all metal T splitter and everything was perfect.

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Chris.SE

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12:50 PM

Ray E:

Thanks for the update. Albeit some time ago it's nice to know that the problem was related to my suspicions.

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Thursday, 2 June 2022

StevensOnln1

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11:37 AM

The BBC have announced that and will move to the PSB3 when COM7 closes at the end of June, which should increase coverage by making these channels available in HD from every . will close on Freeview but remain available in SD. No exact date has been announced yet for any changes to take place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec…com7

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Friday, 3 June 2022

Chris.SE

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1:53 AM

StevensOnln1:

Thanks for the update, good spot. I see Brian Butterworth 's duplicate post tool has unfortunately incorrectly removed your identical post from and !

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Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Roger Brooks
4:37 PM

I have lost on - this happened . All other channels appear to be present
with no

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StevensOnln1

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5:15 PM

Roger Brooks: Is the still listed on the EPG but with a blank screen or has it disappeared completely? Have you tried turning the TV/box off at the for a few minutes? A hard reboot can solve many glitches.

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