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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.

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

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 BBC News 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

Friday, 28 March 2014

Malcolm Derrick
12:20 PM

I see the old ch 200 on that was BBC news is now BBC News HD, and ch 212 is now 'ordinary' BBC news, must be going to replace this something else as surely no point in transmitting both?

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Briantist

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12:21 PM

Malcolm Derrick: they need to transmit in SD for the 10 million boxes without HD!

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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Malcolm Derrick
10:20 AM

Oh so a box without HD can't convert the to show ordinary SD? I BBC2 has also swapped SD and HD.

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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Dee
12:03 AM

trying to Little Mia , she has a rear condition of In 2007, Wayne and Louise' daughter Dannielle was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with severe arrhrythmias. Sadly, in 2008 Dannielle lost her battle to this disease at the age of 9. Less than three months after Dannielle's passing, Louise gave birth to a boy and girl. Troy and Mia.
Troy was fine but Mia was born with a cleft palate and was also diagnosed with shortening of the upper and lower limbs, they were both tested to see if either of them had the heart condition..It was discovered that Mia was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Just like their daughter Dannielle had. Little Mia's life consists of medication and hospital visits for tests. A recent MRI has shown her disease has progressed and that she may only have another 3 years left. The family is devastated, Mia is the second child of theirs to have this disease.
Mia's has one wish. To go on a holiday.
We want to make that happen for her!

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Dee
12:05 AM

Dee: admin@justcastlive.tv

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Monday, 18 January 2016

Mike
2:05 PM

How do i report Tansmitter problems to the BBC ? It seems BBC News HD (31/107)) is on low . The channel is constantly 'blocking' and disappears from time to time. I've checked the strength on my tv and it shows signal strength around 20% and around 60% All other BBC stations show 100% . I live in a strong signal area with good almost line of sight to .

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Mike..

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MikeB

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3:14 PM

Mike: Thats HD channel in on Com 7, so if that was a rubbish , then logically so would a load of other . I'd check signal stength on other channels/coms - if its too high, then the signal stength might go from very high to very low, etc. A postcode would.

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Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Mike
11:55 PM
Liverpool

Hello there MikeB my post code is L37,3JS

Can I ask are you a member of a certain Hifi forum that is dedicated to a certain British High End Manufacturer?

Thanks for you reply Mike.

Cheers,

Mike..

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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Mazbar

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12:34 PM

Mike: formby isn't the best for com 7, it does have slight drop off so if your is old and grouped to cd you could have problems. I did an aerial the other day in formby and com 7 was low but good enough to work without problems. If you want me to look at it check my past posts and you will find my number.

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MikeB

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4:06 PM

Mike: Sorry, but my budget barely stretches to a basic radio, so high end hifi is more of a distant dream than reality! I'm on serveral forums, but none for hi end hifi.

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