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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.

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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'

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High definition channels
Channel name arrow_drop_down web radio Freeview Sky Freesat
BBC News HDaccount_box live_tv     503 200

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

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the media.info link icon media.info BBC News HD page.

Official site: See the www.bbc.co.uk link icon BBC News HD website.

From Wikipedia: - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about BBC News HD on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

About BBC News HD

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How is the free channel paid for?

The £61.1m BBC News channel budget is funded by the £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 channels 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.

Comments
Saturday, 10 October 2020
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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 aerial 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 reception (different transmitters) and the signal doesn't seem to be quite as resilient as it was before channels 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% quality in view of your predicted reception so I really 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
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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 output 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
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StevensOnln1
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11:37 AM

The BBC have announced that BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD will move to the PSB3 multiplex when COM7 closes at the end of June, which should increase coverage by making these channels available in HD from every transmitter. BBC News HD 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
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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

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 BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD !

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Wednesday, 25 January 2023
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Roger Brooks
4:37 PM

I have lost BBC News HD on freesat - this happened yesterday. All other channels appear to be present
with no interference

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StevensOnln1
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

5:15 PM

Roger Brooks: Is the channel 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 mains for a few minutes? A hard reboot can solve many glitches.

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