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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How do I get a test card with Freeview	3
What can I do when my Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fau	4
Can I receive UK TV in Ghana?	5

In this section

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Best ever emails and improved menus on UK FREE TV	5
Use the Knowledge base to find answers to your technical problems	6

Comments

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Alan
9:23 PM

Dear UK FREE TV

Is there going to be a time when the indicators or DOGS as I think they are called going to be removed when viewing?

For me they are becoming annoying. I have a box that indcates which channel I am looking at and I beleive so do many others, so is it not about time they were remived?

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Dave Lindsay

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9:48 PM

Alan: I could not agree more.

The insistence that the "Press Red" on the BBC must be shown unless one presses green. And then you change to another BBC (or back to the previous one) and it comes back.

Why is there no option to disable this graphic or to have it displayed for a short time?

Now it's all , DOGS should be part of the DVB specification. That is, the graphic should be transmitted separately to the main , with receivers overlaying them either momentarily or perminantly, depending on the user's choice.

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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Rob Jury
10:31 AM

DOGS are annoying but it's still better than the situation
there don't just have logos they
Have on screen captions throughout the current programme telling the viewer what is on later! - not just briefly, these are there continuously... Except during commercial breaks of course

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Dave Lindsay

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11:20 AM

And what about all this BREAKING NEWS that has infected BBC News Channel?

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KMJ,Derby

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12:05 PM

There was a move towards showing a small opaque motif in one of the corners of the screen, thus being present for viewers who needed to look for it, but otherwise unnoticed. ITV1+1 is a good example of such a practice. Unfortunately far too many STB's and TV receivers do not display the number of the channel being received. This should have been a basic feature of any . (So should an RF modulator, manual tuning option, selection of preferred and the ability to store all of all muxes received if so desired.) A co-ordinated numbering of channels across all platforms would also have been useful. made a mess of the entertainment channel ordering and lost the plot somewhere in this respect.

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Graham.F.Lewendon

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10:06 PM

Re dogs
Totally agree and talking over end credits or fade in of other program details levae the credits as made by program makers

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Saturday, 4 February 2012

Mark Agius

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9:38 AM

Re: Alan
1 and some of the other non free from Sky have drooped showing a DOG, or just show it for the first couple of seconds during a program.
Let's just that some of the free channels follow. Starting with all BBC channels, ITV channels and Channel 5.

Sometimes when they are showing a program or film in letterbox , the DOG is over the black area.
So with some TV's you can resize the to fill the whole screen with the image and lose the DOG.

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Pauline
6:24 PM

My computer has a TV tuner which I use to record series. I selected Grey's Anatomy to record but later got a message that I didn't have a TV for " 310 top up 5" which is currently broadcasting Grey's Anatomy. Could you tell me what top up 5 is please and how I can get it? Many thanks

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jb38

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9:21 PM

Pauline: I am not an authority on top up TV, but as far as I can gather this was added today to a programme called top up 5 on EPG listings channel 310, this being on the SDN mux (same as ITV3) so you will have to rescan your PC tuner to be able to receive it as it wont be in the memory.

I take it you can receive ITV3? wherever you might be located, as if not you wont be able to receive Top up 5 either.

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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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Anne's: A's Freeview map A's terrain plot A's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage

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