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Free TV 2020/ Want to start your new 24-hour news channel on Freeview? A simple guide!Congratulations, you have applied on the Ofcom website for a TLCS licence. Yours for £1000, the Television Licensable Content Service is only the start of what you will need.

700Mhz clearance/ Saorview and the NIMM - Ireland fixes on UK Free TV

700Mhz clearance/ Freeview will not survive another 16 years

700Mhz clearance/ Lake district and Isle of man last to switch off 700MHz Freeview

Free TV 2020/ Split the BBC spending to 82% urban 18% rural

700Mhz clearance/ Final Freeview retunes to allow 5G mobile at 700MHz listed

High definition/ Freeview removes com8 channels

Future Freeview?/ Freeview research on the value of public service broadcasters during lockdown

Free TV 2020/ Tim Davie to be head of BBC

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Podcasts/ 23/10/2020

Podcasts/ #143 - Quibi Calls It Quits; Telegraph Sub-Editors Return Home; Far-Right Tattoos Sink Woodworking Format

Podcasts/ As America decides, Big Tech weighs in

Podcasts/ Student radio in Warwick turns 50

Links/ UK's ITV restructures to focus on streaming, with Kevin Lygo taking new role – TBI Vision

Links/ S4C failing to reach online audiences, says new chairman

Podcasts/ The economics of outrage

Podcasts/ World Mental Health Day on Absolute Radio

Links/ Update on BBC interactive TV services

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Future Freeview?/ Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwardsThere is a bit of a dip in the space available on Freeview HD for high definition channels once 5G mobile services start next year, but the capability will return.

Freesat/ Fixing the Freesat Freetime internet connection problem

Freeview news/ Why did the BBC just use 1.1 Million TV Licences to buy UKTV from Discovery?

Got interference?/ Which free digital TV system will give me the most reliable reception?

700Mhz clearance/ Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services start in 2020?

TV channels news/ The lower the channel number in the guide, the more viewers it gets ... Right?

BBC Charter 2017/ BBC, plc 2017: BBC announcement

Sky No Card/ Using Sky without a card? Let's call that Sky No Card

Freeview news/ BBC Local Radio on Freeview

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About us/ 405-line VHF bands I and III historic interactive mapTo ensure that there is a full history of analogue television here on UK Free TV, a new interactive map showing the transmitters used for 405-line TV has been added.

Sound/ When you can't quite hear the TV, subtitles are critical

High definition/ Will we ever have Freeview Ultra HD or Freesat Ultra HD?

Affiliated (blog)/ 2050 Tube Map

General/ Why are there so many +1 channels on TV?

at700 Freeview retune/ Upcoming Freeview transmitter changes 2017 to 2020

at700 Freeview retune/ Freeview 2017-2020 map

High definition/ 20 Freeview HD TV channels to close March/June 2019 in Cornwall

Future Freeview?/ How long will Freeview and Freesat continue?

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About us/ Updates for 700MHz Freeview retunes, fixed all channels, new icons, radio fixesOver the last week I have had, at last, enough free time to spend several days fixing everything that had stopped working properly on ukfree.tv.

BBC Charter 2017/ BBC 2017: Which of these 14 options is best to collect 4 billion quid a year?

High definition/ Want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD?

BBC Charter 2017/ BBC plc 2017. June: Media Talk discusses the ad-funded Auntie.

Free TV 2020/ TV licence fee could be replaced by broadband levy, says BBC

700Mhz clearance/ Current Freeview changes make it a little less reliable

Freeview news/ New and improved Freeview radiation patterns

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

BBC Charter 2017/ BBC plc, 2017: Rest in peace, Auntie (from 2019)