BBC News

BBC News is Britain's most-watched news channel, delivering breaking news and analysis all day, every day. It is a fast, live and accurate news service that gives context and analysis to the important stories of the day- both within the UK and from around the World. Its flagship programme is the 5 O'clock news hour which combines new reports, interviews and live events. The BBC News channel is available in the UK only. You can send comments and pictures to the BBC News Channel by texting 61124, or emailing

Main TV standard-definiton channels

How to Watch: BBC News

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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	Channel name arrow_drop_down	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	BBC Newsaccount_box	live_tv		231

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

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

Official site: See the  BBC News website.

From Wikipedia: edit History BBC News 24 was originally available only to analogue cable television subscribers. This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service. Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels. - en.wikipedia.org  read more about BBC News on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: BBC News is on multiplex PSB1 in .

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