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General/ Planned downtime from midnight to 1am tonight.This website will be off-line for an hour tonight.

General/ Cornwall: No BBC multiplex until 18th September

General/ Map of places needing a new aerial post-switchover

General/ High pressure causing nationwide disruption

General/ Merry Christmas!

General/ Sky adverts: dishonest, untrue and unsubstantiated

General/ Payview is coming

General/ Channel 4+1 from 20th August

General/ five is 'blocked by trees' at Malvern

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Links/ BBC faces further cuts as gov't plans for below-inflation licence fee riseUK public broadcaster the BBC is to receive a below-inflation increase to the licence fee once the freeze ends next year, the country's culture secretary Lucy Frazer has indicated. The UK TV licence fee, the BBC's primary source of funding, has been frozen by the government for the past two years at 159 per year until April 2024, after which it was due to rise with inflation by 9, up by almost 15 to 173.30. - tbivision.com

Podcasts/ BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen responds to listener Feedback

Podcasts/ Telegraph saga, Newsnight trim and Bauer re-brand

Links/ Scandals and a sinking ship: can This Morning survive?

Podcasts/ BONUS Lord Grade, Ofcom Chair, in conversation with Katie Razzall

Links/ UKTV to rename FTA channels and streamer UKTV Play under new 'masterbrand' U - TBI Vision

Links/ Bauer to remove all radio stations from satellite and cable TV platforms

Podcasts/ Marcus Ryder MBE: "We are all just one commission away..."

Links/ Keep or cancel Freeview? The arguments:> RXTV info

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General/ BBC on YouTube!The BBC has launched three channels of content on Youtube!

General/ New site features

General/ BBC iPlayer 2 is live now

General/ Try Joost

General/ Sky Picnic - or Payview?

General/ BBC expands to six non-UK channels

General/ Channel 4 cancels DAB radio channels

General/ Ofcom PSB Review II

General/ Ofcom - just 12.8% homes now are 'analogue'

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General/ Sky cancels Picnic and annoys OfcomSky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three to stay on Freeview

General/ Cartoon wars: The end of broadcast television?

General/ ITV Regional News to change

General/ Belmont, Lincolnshire transmitter

General/ New look UK FREE TV

General/ Mr Shit For Brains?

General/ Where next for Television and the Internet?

General/ Rabbit - exclusive interview

General/ Introducing Sky Three

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General/ Two new channels five from October 15 and 16Stand-up comedian Russell Kane will front the American (established and new) drama, comedy, films, sport and youth programming channel "five US" from Sunday 15 October 2006.

General/ New switchover details published

General/ New TV stealth tax

General/ BBC structure

General/ Caldbeck switchover delayed until 2009

General/ Updated maps

General/ Dating Channel launches full-service on the web

General/ Frequency maps and switchover simulator

General/ UK Free TV on Facebook

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General/ What to do with 'worthless' ITV?ITV plc's share price hits a new low (at 64.5p), so is the only way up for new boss Peter Fincham?

General/ New channel alert! Five life and Five US

General/ Whitehaven switchover captions

General/ Will Independent Television become Sk-ITV?

General/ Peekvid: Easy TV on YouTube

General/ Is the Sky falling in?

General/ BBC News to drop tainted 24 name

General/ Channel 4 goes free for Freesat launch on 6th May

General/ Ofcom provides Product Placement logo

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General/ UK Free updates complete... what do you want nextFinally, the changes that started a few months ago are complete.

General/ BBC and Arqiva finalise 1.8bn pound deal

General/ The great Channel 4 Global Warming Swindle Swindle

General/ TV tax on the TV tax

General/ Channel 4 apologies for racism?

General/ It's Dave - not Bright Ideas and evening History

General/ You can watch Channel 4 online from Tuesday 27th

General/ Scrap TV Poll Tax and some DRM - top Tory

General/ UK Free in Edinburgh

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General/ New Freesat channel numbersOld channel numbers

General/ Coming to the UK?

General/ Sorry for the break in service...

General/ New features

General/ Who is going to pay for millions of new aerials?

General/ Digital television for all, for free!

General/ Freesat in the media...

General/ CITV launched today

General/ Providing help since July 2002

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General/ Analogue shutdown simulationYou can now view all the issues that will arise during digital switchover.

General/ Happy new year!

General/ ITV1 Thames Valley, Sheffield and TTTV regions

General/ New Switchover simulation

General/ High pressure causing channel loss through "Inversion"

General/ The Theft Factor?

General/ 95% of UK will have digital TV by 2010

General/ No digital TV for some until after the Olympics

General/ ITV West extended to North Gloucestershire

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General/ Why are there so many +1 channels on TV?Freesat has 22 of them, there are 24 of them on Freeview, and Sky gives a whole 100 numbers to them. Why are there so many plus one TV channels?

General/ 45% of Manchester aerial installers a 'rip-off'

General/ Google Earth facilities

General/ Server upgrade - tonight

General/ How much did your aerial or dish install cost?

General/ Self-help relays

General/ Problems with Sagem and TUTV Thompson PVRs

General/ 50 new answers and new features

General/ What is happening with the main five channels?

UK Free TV More stories 112

General/ Updated mapsThanks to your suggestions, we've upgraded the prediction maps.

General/ Public Service Broadcasting Funding - an answer

General/ Final dates for Isle of Man and Caldbeck switchoff

General/ New UK Free TV server

General/ New format to switchover detail pages

General/ Big Brother is fleecing you

General/ How to upgrade a Guest House

General/ BBC "Delivering Quality First" changes to transmissions

General/ No ITV Movie channel

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General/ 'Digital Switchover is today a done deal in 90% of UK Homes' - Grade"We were still thinking then of Digital Switchover being a distant event with no date set. 2012 is now just the technical date for turning off the last of the old analogue transmitters." - ITV Chairman Michael Grade.

General/ BBC publishes 'sack Greg Dyke' Governorsâ€™ minutes

General/ New site feature

General/ Council aerial ban challenged

General/ 40 million pound V1 schedule announced

General/ Richard and Judy find a new home

General/ Ofcom - just 16% of homes without digital TV

General/ Only 25% of main sets are analogue

General/ BBC licence fee agreed for six years

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General/ Coming soon ITV2+1You will have a chance to watch ITV2 programmes an hour later on ITV2+1 coming soon

General/ Payview is junked

General/ New UK Free TV features

General/ Switchover month to be shortened or dropped

General/ The Hits becomes 4Music but not on Freesat

General/ Lancaster transmitter upgrade problems

General/ Digital penetration reaches 86.7%

General/ Digital Britain Interim Report is published

General/ New national radio announced

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General/ Channel 4 to join YouTube and add music channel toChannel 4 plans to replace one of it's Freeview "+1" channels with a 16-34's music channel.

General/ RSS updates

General/ Setanta Sports News - starts today

General/ Region maps upgraded

General/ Unpopular Top Up TV turns to PVR

General/ ITV share price drops to 41.1p

General/ What was linear television? What is Martini TV?

General/ Children's ITV Channel

General/ Broadcasting territorial exclusivity with a decoder card is contrary to EU law

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General/ Save BBC THREE and BBC FOURDon't let them take away your UK produced new TV channels... save BBC THREE and FOUR from Mr Humphries!

General/ Another 'mode change' for Wales and E+SE England

General/ BBC and ITV free satellite

General/ More4 launch date set

General/ How green is your TV?

General/ Natasha brings BBC Three's 60 seconds news to One

General/ Get uk free tv with google gateway

General/ CITV to launch on Freesat on 8th May

General/ A BBC digital switchover plan?

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General/ Some Wales switchover dates finalizedThe Preslei, Kilvey Hill and Carmel transmitter switchover dates announced by Digital UK

General/ Full C4 on the Lobster phone

General/ CITV moves .. but not to Wales

General/ High pressure causing reception problems

General/ Sky Freesat

General/ BBC News 24 and BBC World to have new names

General/ Do you want to advise Ofcom?

General/ Do you watch more than one BBC or ITV region?

General/ Save up to 700 pounds a year on your TV costs

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General/ Payview is on, Payview is off There is continued confusion about BSkyB's proposal to remove Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three from Freeview, so Sky can launch a number of subscription services using Freeview transmissions.

General/ Channel 4 would like to turn Sky "retransmission fees" into programming

General/ V1 - October 1

General/ BBC licence fee held at 145.50 until 2016

General/ Men's channel ITV4 starts 1 Nov

General/ BBC Three gets a revamp

General/ 18 new channels on Freesat starting Thursday

General/ ITV Children's programmes and Stephen Carter

General/ New BBCone look

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General/ Ofcom - no swearing, please Auntie...Ofcom censures BBC one and UKTV Gold for daytime swearing

General/ Keep cricket free

General/ BBC podcast from Edinburgh with UK Free TV

General/ Tessa's other 616,705 question

General/ Freesat launch confirmed for May 6th, 12:30pm

General/ ITV1 viewing drops further

General/ BSkyB share price at record low too!

General/ Final shutdown map

General/ DTT HD trial puts five off the air

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General/ New transmitter monopolyThe UK's two transmitter companies Arqiva and NGW have been merged.

General/ Regional News and ITV1 fears

General/ ITV HD - starts with Euro 2008

General/ TMF fined 80k for bad language

General/ ITV to cut 600 jobs, 3+4+5 merger just an "illustrative slide"

General/ Your analogue switch off date

General/ FilmFour makes fourth free from 4

General/ New UK Free TV gadgets and maps

General/ More questions answered

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General/ New UK after-switchover mapsThere are three sets of new maps on UK Free TV which show the configuration of terrestrial television after switchover is complete in 2012/2013

General/ Is Setanta Sports mad?

General/ BBC/ITV Freesat delayed until late '07

General/ More4 not on Freesat

General/ The BBC wants to stop paying Sky ten million pounds a year for EPG listing

General/ ITV News to close

General/ London and South East may switchover early in 2011

General/ Whitehaven switchover complete

General/ Channel 4 +1 on 20 August

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General/ Welcome to Setanta SportsAfter many enquiries about Setanta Sports, we examine your new Sport viewing options.

General/ Lifeboats get taxed by Ofcom

General/ New look UK Free TV - coming very soon

General/ Whitehaven switchover in progress

General/ BBC sets out plan to inform, educate and entertain during unprecedented times

General/ ITV1 super-regions announced

General/ New Channel 4 numbers on satellite

General/ ABC-1 has stopped broadcasting

General/ U-switch's confusing report

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General/ How to cut back your TV subscriptionOne in three pay TV subscribers are thinking of switching to free TV. With Freeview HD on the horizon, free TV has never looked better.

General/ BBC fined 400,000 for pre-mediated fake quizes