All of the free TV channels on PGSTART1400 in the UK

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	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
BBC Alba HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	7	169_{watch_later}	109_{watch_later}
BBC Four HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	106_{watch_later}	116_{watch_later}	108_{watch_later}
BBC News HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}		503	200
BBC One HD_{account_box}		101		101
BBC Scotland HD	_{live_tv}	108		110
BBC Three HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	107 _{watch_later}	173_{watch_later}	107_{watch_later}
BBC Two HD_{account_box}		102	102	102
CBBC HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	204_{wb_sunny}	607_{wb_sunny}	600_{wb_sunny}
CBeebies HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	205_{wb_sunny}	608_{wb_sunny}	601_{wb_sunny}
Channel 4 HD		104	104	104
Channel 4 HD (Wales)		110		104
Channel 5 HD		105	105	105
CNN International HD			506
ITV 1 HD		103	103	103
New Media HD			594
Quest HD			144
S4C HD_{account_box}	_{live_tv}		134	120
SportyStuff TV HD			437
STV HD		103	103	103
Travelxp HD			182
UTV HD		103	103	103
WION HD			523

Main TV standard-definiton channels

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
— &UYesterday +1		74 (90%)	255
— &W +1			232
4Music	_{live_tv}		354
4seven	_{live_tv}	49 (90%)	137	127
5Action		33 (90%)	150	132
5SELECT		46_{watch_later}	153_{watch_later}	133_{watch_later}
5STAR		32 (90%)	128	131
— 5STAR +1			228	140
5USA		21 (90%)	141	129
— 5USA +1			241	130
Al Jazeera Eng		235 (90%)
Al Jazeera English		251 (90%)	513	203
Arirang TV			522	214
Arise Play			175
BBC Four_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	9 _{watch_later}	815_{watch_later}
BBC Four (Scotland SD)	_{live_tv}	24 _{watch_later}
BBC News_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	231
BBC One (SD)_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	1
BBC Parliament_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	232	504	201
BBC Scotland SD	_{live_tv}	9	187
BBC Three_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	23_{watch_later}
BBC Two_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	2
Blaze		64 (90%)	164	161
— Blaze +1		81 (90%)
Bloomberg TV			502	208
CBBC_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	201_{wb_sunny}	643_{wb_sunny}
CBeebies_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	202_{wb_sunny}	644_{wb_sunny}
Challenge		48 (90%)	152	142
Channel 4 (Wales)		7	104
Channel 4 (SD)	_{live_tv}	4	804
— Channel 4 +1		15	204	121
Channel 5		5	805
— Channel 5 +1		38 (90%)	205	128
Channel 7 (Ghana)			181
Clubland TV			364
CNBC			505	210
Court TV			179
Deen TV			783
DMAX		39 (90%)	172	147
— DMAX +1			272	153
Dunamis TV			592
E4	_{live_tv}	13		122
E4 (Wales)	_{live_tv}			122
— E4 +1		30		123
E4 Extra	_{live_tv}	31 (90%)	138	126
EarthxTV		79 (90%)	180
EuroNews English			508
Film4	_{live_tv}	14		300
— Film4 +1		47 (90%)	314	301
Food Network		43 (90%)	140	148
— Food Network +1			240	154
Foodxp			712
FRANCE 24 (in English)		255 (90%)	512	205
FreeSports	_{live_tv}		422
GoodNews TV			591
GREAT! action		42 (90%)	323
GREAT! christmas		52 (90%)	319
GREAT! movies		34 (90%)	321
Great! Movies Action 1			324
GREAT! romance mix		63 (90%)	320
Heart 80s			0112
Heart 90s			0217
HGTV		44 (90%)	158	149
— HGTV +1			258
HobbyMaker		73 (90%)
ITV 1 (SD)	_{live_tv}	3	803	111
ITV 2	_{live_tv}	6	118	113
— ITV1 +1		35	203	112
— ITV2 +1		29 (90%)_{watch_later}	218	114
ITV3	_{live_tv}	10	119	115
— ITV3 +1		58 (90%)	219	116
ITV4	_{live_tv}	26	120	117
— ITV4 +1	_{live_tv}	59 (90%)	220	118
ITVBe		28	131	119
— ITVBe +1		93 (90%)
Kerrang! TV	_{live_tv}		358
Ketchup Too		210 (90%)
Ketchup TV		209 (90%)
Kiss (TV)	_{live_tv}		356
Legend		41 (90%)	148	137
LEGEND XTRA 1			318	139
Magic (TV)	_{live_tv}		357
More4	_{live_tv}	18		124
— More4 +1			236	125
Now 90s			363
NTD			185
PBS America		84 (90%)	174	155
Pitaara International			773
— Pop +1			619
— POP MAX +1			621
Primal Living			670
Quest		12 (90%)		144
— Quest +1		70 (90%)	244	151
Quest Red		40 (90%)	149	146
— Quest Red +1			249	152
Really		17 (90%)	142	145
— Rok Sky +1		265 (90%)
RTÉ One		54
RTÉ Two		55
SBN International			593
Showcase TV			186
Sky Arts		36 (90%)		143
Sky Mix		11 (90%)	151	141
Sky News	_{live_tv}	233 (90%)		202
Smithsonian Channel			171
STV (SD)		3	803
— STV+1		35	203
Talking Pictures TV		82 (90%)	328	306
TCC		78 _{wb_sunny}
TG4		53
That's 60s MCR		77
That's 80s		80
That's 90s		75 (90%)	361
That's 90s MCR		86
That's TV (UK)		56 (90%)	183
That's TV 2		65 (90%)	366
That's TV 2 MCR		76 (90%)	362
That’s 60s		71
The Box	_{live_tv}		355
— Tiny Pop +1			618
Together TV		83 (90%) _{wb_sunny}	170	164
Trace Vault			360
Trace Hits			359
TRT World			516	215
TRUE CRIME		67 (90%)	146	135
TRUE CRIME 1			246	136
TRUE CRIME XTRA		68 (90%)	147	134
— TV Warehouse+1		88
U&Dave		19 (90%)	811	157
U&Dave ja vu		57 (90%)	211
U&Drama		20 (90%)	143	158
— U&Drama +1		60 (90%)	243
U&W		25 (90%)		156
U&Yesterday		27 (90%)		159
UTV (SD)		3	803
— UTV +1		35	203	112
WildEarth		91 (90%)
YAAAS!		211 (90%)

Local TV channels

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
Bay TV Clwyd		7 (54%)
Bay TV Liverpool		7 (54%)
Bay TV Swansea		7 (54%)
Big Centre TV		7 (54%)
Cambridge Presents		7 (54%)
Estuary TV Doncaster		7 (54%)
Estuary TV York		7 (54%)
GREAT! real		61 (54%)	322
Latest TV		7 (54%)
LEGEND XTRA		69 (54%)	317	138
LONDON LIVE	_{live_tv}	8 (54%)
Made in Bristol		7 (54%)
Made in Cardiff		8 (54%)
Made in Leeds		7 (54%)
Made in Teesside		7 (54%)
Made in Tyne and Wear		7 (54%)
Mustard		7 (54%)
Notts TV	_{live_tv}	7 (54%)
NvTv		7 (54%)
POP MAX		208 (54%)	620
Sheffield Live		7 (54%)
STV Edinburgh		8 (54%)
STV Glasgow		8 (54%)
That's Berkshire		7 (54%)
That's Lancashire		7 (54%)
That's Manchester		7 (54%)
That's Oxford		7 (54%)
That's Salisbury		7 (54%)
That's Solent		7 (54%)
That's Surrey		7 (54%)
The York Channel		7 (54%)
Tiny Pop		207 (54%)	615

Radio stations

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
Absolute Radio	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	727 (90%)	0107
Absolute Radio 80s	_{live_tv}	DAB		0200
Absolute Radio 90s	_{live_tv}	DAB		0201
Absolute Radio Classic Rock	_{live_tv}	DAB		0203
BBC Asian Network_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	709	0119	709
BBC Berkshire_{account_box}		DAB	719
BBC Bristol_{account_box}		FM/AM	719
BBC C&W_{account_box}			719
BBC Cambridge_{account_box}		FM/AM	722
BBC Cornwall_{account_box}			721
BBC Cumbria_{account_box}			721
BBC Derby_{account_box}			717
BBC Devon_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	720
BBC Essex_{account_box}			734
BBC Gloucestershire_{account_box}			735
BBC Guernsey_{account_box}			721
BBC H&W_{account_box}			720
BBC Humberside_{account_box}			721
BBC Jersey_{account_box}			719
BBC Kent_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	719
BBC Lancashire_{account_box}			720
BBC Leeds_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	719
BBC Leicester_{account_box}			721
BBC Lincolnshire_{account_box}			722
BBC Manchester_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	719
BBC Merseyside_{account_box}			722
BBC Newcastle_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	719
BBC Norfolk_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	719
BBC Northampton_{account_box}			734
BBC Nottingham_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	720
BBC Oxford_{account_box}			722
BBC Radio 1_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	_flag700	0101	700
BBC Radio 1Xtra_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB	701	0137	701
BBC Radio 2_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	_flag702	0102	702
BBC Radio 3_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	_flag703	0103	703
BBC Radio 4 (FM)_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	704	0104	704
BBC Radio 4 Extra_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB	708	0131	708
BBC Radio 4 LW_{account_box}	_{live_tv}			0143	710
BBC Radio 5 Live_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	705	0105	705
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB	706	0144	706
BBC Radio 6 Music_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB	707	0120	707
BBC Radio Cymru_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	720	0152	715
BBC Radio Cymru 2_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0219	735
BBC Radio Foyle_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	720	0220	717
BBC Radio London_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	719	0152	718
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	_flag720	0139	713
BBC Radio Scotland_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	719	0116	712
BBC Radio Ulster_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	719	0118	716
BBC Radio Wales_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	719	0117	714
BBC Sheffield_{account_box}			734
BBC Shropshire_{account_box}			721
BBC Solent_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	722
BBC Solent for Dorset_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	734
BBC Somerset_{account_box}			722
BBC Stoke_{account_box}			726
BBC Suffolk_{account_box}			720
BBC Surrey_{account_box}			722
BBC Sussex_{account_box}			720
BBC Tees_{account_box}			722
BBC Three Counties_{account_box}			720
BBC Wiltshire_{account_box}			721
BBC WM_{account_box}		DAB FM/AM	722
BBC World Service_{account_box}	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	_flag710	0115	711
BBC York_{account_box}			720
BFBS Radio	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0211	786
Capital	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	724 (90%)	0109	719
Capital Xtra	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0114	720
Classic FM	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	731 (90%)	0106	721
EWTN Radio Britain and Ireland				0147
Gold	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0121	722
Heart	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	728 (90%)	0111	733
Heart Dance		DAB		0146
Hits Radio	_{live_tv}			0188
Jazz FM				0202
KISS		DAB FM/AM		0178
LBC	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	732 (90%)	0124	734
LBC News	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0221
Magic	_{live_tv}	DAB		0180
Panjab Radio				0130
PlanetRock		DAB		0110
Premier Radio		DAB FM/AM	725 (90%)
Radio Khush Khabri				0151
Radio X	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM		0113	723
RNIB Connect		FM/AM	730 (90%)
RTÉ 2FM				0164	751
RTÉ Lyric FM				0165	752
RTÉ Radio 1				0160	750
RTÉ Raidio na Gaeltachta				0166	753
RTÉ RnaG			729
Scala Radio				0216
Smooth Radio	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	718 (90%)	0128	732
Sukh Sagar Radio				0150
talkSPORT	_{live_tv}	DAB FM/AM	723 (90%)	0108	731
Trans World Radio			733 (90%)
TWR	_{live_tv}	FM/AM		0138	790
V Radio				0215	736
WRN English				0122

Streamed TV and text

	Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	BBC RB 1_{account_box}			601		981
	On Demand 365			254 (90%)

High definition shopping

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	Sky	Freesat
Daystar TV HD	583	691
Iran International HD	793
Loveworld TV HD	585

Other TV channels

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
3ABN		268 (90%)
A1 TV			759
Aaj Tak			710
Aastha			724
Ahlebait TV			745
Ahlulbayt TV			787
Akaal Channel			770
Al Arabiya		261 (90%)
Alaraby Network		279 (90%)
AlJazeera Arabic		252 (90%)
AmazingDiscoveries		269 (90%)
Arise News			519
ARY Digital			758
ARY World			736
Asharq News		260 (90%)
Asharq News #2		272 (90%)
ATN Bangla			779
Best Direct			669
Brit Asia TV			767
British Muslim TV			752
Channel S			777
Channelbox		271 (90%)
Channels 24			518
CRAFT EXTRA			673
Create & Craft		85 (90%)_{wb_sunny}	683	813
Cruise 1st TV			688
Dunya News			754
Eman Channel			757
EWTN			586
FailArmy		264 (90%)
Faith			590
Faith World TV			588
GB News		236 (90%)	515	216
Gems TV	_{live_tv}	45 (90%)	665	805
Geo			738
Geo News International			734
GOD Channel			580	694
God TV		282 (90%)
GREAT! tv		50 (90%)	157
— GREAT! tv +1		62 (90%)	257
Hidayat TV			733
High Street TV 1			666
High Street TV 2			667
High Street TV 3			672
High Street TV 4			675
Hum Masala			732
Hum TV			751
Ideal World		51 (90%)	664
Inspiration TV			584
Ion TV			782
Iqra Bangla			778
Iqra TV			742
Islam Channel			737
Islam Channel Urdu			755
Islam TV			744
Jewellery Maker	_{live_tv}	72 (90%)	674	807
JML Direct			661
Kanshi TV			772
KICC TV			589
Madani Channel English			746
MATV Channel			711
MTA 1			731
NDTV 24x7			510
Newsmax		273 (90%)
NHK WORLD		286 (90%)	507	209
Noor TV			739
NTV			780
Pet Collective		266 (90%)
Phoenix CNE			791
Pop Player		212 (90%)
Psychic Today			680
PTC Punjabi			766
PTV Global			735
QVC	_{live_tv}	16 (90%)	660	800
QVC Extra	_{live_tv}		682	802
QVC Style	_{live_tv}		677	803
QVC2	_{live_tv}	37 (90%)	663	801
Real Crime		258 (90%)
Revelation TV		281 (90%)	581	692
Rok		280 (90%)	329
Sangat TV			769
Sanskar TV			725
Shots!		262 (90%)
Sikh Channel			768
Sky News Arabia			788
SonLife		263 (90%)
Sonlife TV		96 (90%)		695
Takbeer TV			749
TalkTV		237 (90%)	526
TBN UK		66	582
Thane			679
The Word Network			587
TJC		22 (90%)	662	809
TJC Beauty			668	810
— Together TV +1		90 (90%)_{wb_sunny}
TV One			781
TV Warehouse		87	676
TVC News Nigeria			524
UK 44			756
UK RADIO PORTAL		277 (90%)

Where Local TV broadcast

	Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	Ideal World Extra	_{live_tv}			671
	Pop			206 (54%)	614

Adult channels

Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	Freeview	Sky
92 News		743
ADULT Babestn	674 (90%)
ADULT Section	699 (90%)
ADULT Section (start)	670 (90%)
ADULT smileTV3	673 (90%)
ADULT Xpanded TV	671 (90%)	902

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js

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7:20 PM

Diffs:

Five new ITV HD regional variants were added to the Freesat :

Comparing files List Freesat 02-10-2020 18 01.txt and List Freesat 05-10-2020 11 01.txt

************************ NEW ************************

SERVICE NAME TYPE EPGID SID TSID ONID FREQ.P ENC EIT PROVIDER BOUQUETS LCN
ITV HD 25 01042 21080 2066 2 11097V 0 0 Freesat 000010001000 181
ITV HD 25 01043 20820 2064 2 11068V 0 0 Freesat 000010001000 182
ITV HD 25 01044 21015 2066 2 11097V 0 0 Freesat 000010001000 183
ITV HD 25 01045 21010 2066 2 11097V 0 0 Freesat 000010001000 184
ITV HD 25 01046 21070 2066 2 11097V 0 0 Freesat 000010001000 185

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STEPHEN HARRIS
1:37 PM

can i get any christmas on my laptop?
as i believe sony channel has started one on channel 50 can you please confirm this

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5:39 AM

STEPHEN HARRIS:

Sony have this year renamed Sony Movies Classic as Sony Movies Christmas for the festive season, see Updates and alerts | Freeview they did a similar thing last year.
This (and some other Sony channels) Sony moved to Local multiplexes over a year ago.
For which channels are on which , see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview

Unless you live in an area that can receive a Local multiplex (have a local at LCN 7 or 8 in your EPG) then you won't get this channel. There's only a small number of main transmitters that have local multiplexes most of which are beamed at larger centres of urban population.
AFAIK it's not possible to watch on line, see Sony Movies UK |

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3:13 AM

Last ditch attempt here to alert the monkeys at DUK and BBC to the fact that they are transmitting garbage:

Invalid Character Codes in the EIT off Com7 National Arqiva C. Date: 2020/10/22 02:11:42

It has become apparent through observation that invalid bytes in the Freeview EIT text strings are the low-order bytes of the Unicode General Punctuation Block:

Of course only bytes less than 0x20 qualify as invalid codes in the context of EIT text strings.

Since about April 2018, the following invalid codes have been found in the Freeview EIT text items:

0x01, substitute: {0x01} -> Unicode Character: "EM QUAD" (U + 2001)
0x08, substitute: { } -> Unicode Character: "PUNCTUATION SPACE" (U + 2008)
0x0B, substitute: {} -> Unicode Character: "ZERO WIDTH SPACE" (U + 200B)
0x10, substitute: {-} -> Unicode Character: "HYPHEN" (U + 2010)
0x13, substitute: {--} -> Unicode Character: "EN DASH" (U + 2013)
0x14, substitute: {---} -> Unicode Character: "EM DASH" (U + 2014)
0x18, substitute: {L'} -> Unicode Character: "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 2018)
0x19, substitute: {R'} -> Unicode Character: "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 2019)
0x1C, substitute: {L''} -> Unicode Character: "LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 201C)
0x1D, substitute: {R''} -> Unicode Character: "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 201D)

There are 9 invalid codes in the current EIT:
invalid code, count, percentage
0x0B, 7, 77.78%
0x1C, 1, 11.11%
0x1D, 1, 11.11%

There are 8 events with invalid codes in the current EIT.

The Culprits:
Format:
service_name, number of events containing errors

CBeebies HD, 8

Events with invalid codes in the eight-day EIT off multiplex Arqiva C at 2020/10/22 02:11:42:

#1: CBeebies HD, Thu 22 Oct 09:15 - 09:25: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Puzzles{}. In their adventure, Dog and Pug meet Granny Pug, who makes them solve three puzzles. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#2: CBeebies HD, Thu 22 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Bedtime Baboon{}. Dog and Pug go on an adventure to help Bedtime Baboon get all the young children around the world to sleep. They have to sprinkle moondust everywhere. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#3: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 09:15 - 09:25: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Cheshire Cat{}. Dog and Pug go to Buckingham Palace, where they meet Queen Victoria. She is looking for her mysterious Cheshire cat, who keeps disappearing. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#4: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 14:20 - 14:25: title = "Tinpo", description = "Shshsh!! It's Hack-Po's day off and she wants to read her book...if only she can get a bit of {L''}shshsh!!!{R''}. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error bytes: 0x1C, 0x1D

#5: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Camping{}. Dog and Pug decide to go holiday and use Granny Pug's guide to camping. They visit a music festival, a jungle and the top of a mountain. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#6: CBeebies HD, Sun 25 Oct 08:50 - 09:00: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves a Small Adventure{}. Dog loses his voice, so Pug has to read a book. Pug goes on an adventure with the bookshop mice to enter the body of Dog and find his heart and tummy. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#7: CBeebies HD, Tue 27 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Don Quixote{}. Pug needs a story about how to be brave, so Dog and Pug meet the great Spanish knight Don Quixote and his partner, Sancho Panza. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#8: CBeebies HD, Wed 28 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Amazing Facts{}. Dog and Pug are talking about facts, and they go on an adventure to check one of Pug's. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

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Nicanor C. Menendez
7:50 AM

js: hmmm, lets see...

1. only you has every seen or reported this 'problem'
2. all the main transmitters have analysers and decoders monitoring every aspect of the
3. the programme companies, broadcasters, and the subtitle contractors all monitor direct off-air
4. this website and the people on it are not connected with the broadcasters in any way

maybe its time to find another hobby?

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5:01 PM

Nicanor C. Menendez: hmmm, lets see...

[1. only you has every seen or reported this 'problem']

A response from the author of SmartDVB in a support thread called "Unknown unicode character in EPG title crashes scheduled rec":

"I managed to find the culprate. Seems to be an EOM (End Of Media character, 0x19 UTF8). What it's doing there"

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[2. all the main transmitters have analysers and decoders monitoring every aspect of the ]

If that was true the garbage wouldn't be there.

{3. the programme companies, broadcasters, and the subtitle contractors all monitor direct off-air]

Have you even looked at the events I listed?

[4. this website and the people on it are not connected with the broadcasters in any way]

The attempts to get this through by direct messaging failed, probably because the recipient had the same misconceptions as you. Here it's on permanent public display.

[maybe its time to find another hobby?]

Maybe you should. Your grammar is amiss. There should be an apostrophe in "its" as it's a short form of "it is".

Rather ironic that ninety percent of the errors are misrepresentations of an apostrophe.

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Nicanor C. Menendez:

Hmmm, let's see......
I've seen some of the errors that js has mentioned, but I can't analyse it in the way js can as I don't have the equipment that gives that detail.
If you happen to work for any of the broadcasters or DUK more importantly, then perhaps you could be constructive and get the relevant people to look at this.
Now if you have the necessary equipment then you'd be able to see all the errors, if you haven't seen any such errors or have the necessary equipment, then perhaps you should "find another hobby" as you cannot substantiate any of your claims.
PS. Broadcasters et al do not monitor the same detail "off-air" otherwise they might have done something about it.

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5:45 AM

Another day, another - nah, strike that.

Another day, another ERROR - yeah, thats right. Oops, did I leave out an apostrophe? What does "thats" mean? Is it a word? Nope.

There are so few EIT errors on Com7 precisely for that reason. The regular EIT off DVB-T has a ton more errors but nearly all get eliminated in the Huffman coding of the EIT on DVB-T2 multiplexes, leaving behind nonsense words with missing apostrophes and expressions without the intended quotes.

The same is true for the rendering of EIT data on typical DVB devices; they will ignore the faulty characters, the only sign remaining being the ungrammatical nature of the text.

Here's the error stats for the BBCA EIT:

There are 138 invalid codes in the current EIT:
invalid code, count, percentage
0x0B, 10, 7.25%
0x10, 2, 1.45%
0x19, 116, 84.06%
0x1C, 5, 3.62%
0x1D, 5, 3.62%

There are 133 events with invalid codes in the current EIT.

The Culprits:
Format:
service_name, number of events containing errors

CBBC, 1
CBeebies, 6
BBC Radio 4 Ex, 3
CBBC HD, 1
RNIB Connect, 3
ADULT Studio 66, 39
That's TV, 37
That's TV, 37
CBeebies HD, 6

Back to Com7:

Invalid Character Codes in the EIT off Com7 National Arqiva C. Date: 2020/10/23 02:58:52

It has become apparent through observation that invalid bytes in the Freeview EIT text strings are the low-order bytes of the Unicode General Punctuation Block:

Of course only bytes less than 0x20 qualify as invalid codes in the context of EIT text strings.

Since about April 2018, the following invalid codes have been found in the Freeview EIT text items:

0x01, substitute: {0x01} -> Unicode Character: "EM QUAD" (U + 2001)
0x08, substitute: { } -> Unicode Character: "PUNCTUATION SPACE" (U + 2008)
0x0B, substitute: {} -> Unicode Character: "ZERO WIDTH SPACE" (U + 200B)
0x10, substitute: {-} -> Unicode Character: "HYPHEN" (U + 2010)
0x13, substitute: {--} -> Unicode Character: "EN DASH" (U + 2013)
0x14, substitute: {---} -> Unicode Character: "EM DASH" (U + 2014)
0x18, substitute: {L'} -> Unicode Character: "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 2018)
0x19, substitute: {R'} -> Unicode Character: "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 2019)
0x1C, substitute: {L''} -> Unicode Character: "LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 201C)
0x1D, substitute: {R''} -> Unicode Character: "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" (U + 201D)

There are 16 invalid codes in the current EIT:
invalid code, count, percentage
0x0B, 5, 31.25%
0x10, 9, 56.25%
0x1C, 1, 6.25%
0x1D, 1, 6.25%

There are 15 events with invalid codes in the current EIT.

The Culprits:
Format:
service_name, number of events containing errors

CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBBC HD, 1
CBeebies HD, 6

Events with invalid codes in the eight-day EIT off multiplex Arqiva C at 2020/10/23 02:58:52:

#1: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#2: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#3: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#4: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#5: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#6: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#7: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#8: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#9: CBBC HD, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: title = "Dragons: Race to the Edge", description = "Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x10

#10: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 09:15 - 09:25: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Cheshire Cat{}. Dog and Pug go to Buckingham Palace, where they meet Queen Victoria. She is looking for her mysterious Cheshire cat, who keeps disappearing. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#11: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 14:20 - 14:25: title = "Tinpo", description = "Shshsh!! It's Hack-Po's day off and she wants to read her book...if only she can get a bit of {L''}shshsh!!!{R''}. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error bytes: 0x1C, 0x1D

#12: CBeebies HD, Fri 23 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Camping{}. Dog and Pug decide to go holiday and use Granny Pug's guide to camping. They visit a music festival, a jungle and the top of a mountain. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#13: CBeebies HD, Sun 25 Oct 08:50 - 09:00: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves a Small Adventure{}. Dog loses his voice, so Pug has to read a book. Pug goes on an adventure with the bookshop mice to enter the body of Dog and find his heart and tummy. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#14: CBeebies HD, Tue 27 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Don Quixote{}. Pug needs a story about how to be brave, so Dog and Pug meet the great Spanish knight Don Quixote and his partner, Sancho Panza. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

#15: CBeebies HD, Wed 28 Oct 14:25 - 14:35: title = "Dog Loves Books", description = "Dog Loves Amazing Facts{}. Dog and Pug are talking about facts, and they go on an adventure to check one of Pug's. [S] [HD]", Huffman coded, description error byte: 0x0B

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3:47 PM

js:

I don't know if you've seen this - I only spotted it a while ago when looking for something else -
Tell the BBC | Help receiving TV and radio
It has boxes for selecting and then one for the EPG !!

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Chris.SE: Thanks, might give it another try. At the moment there is an easy to see error that I can point to:

CBBC, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: "Dragons: Race to the Edge"
"Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, Anti{-}Thor. [S]"

Here there should be a hyphen between Anti and Thor, a Unicode 2010 hyphen, but the EIT has an invalid code 0x10 in its place.

As a result, Anti-Thor appears as AntiThor on Freeview, the invalid code being discarded by the device, or, in the case of EIT off DVB-T2, by the Huffman coding process.

On , the Unicode hyphen is present and correct:

CBBC, Fri 30 Oct 18:20 - 18:40: Dragons: Race to the Edge
Return of Thor Bonecrusher. Snoutlout accidentally brings to life Thor's evil twin, AntiThor. Also in HD. [S]

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