Site development

Site development/ Seeing something different? We are doing A/B testing on a new Material DesignThe recent survey pointed out that mobile users were unhappy with some of the aspects of the UK Free design. To address these issues, I have created a new mobile-first design to the site. This is being shown to half of the people using the site to find out how effective the changes are.

Site development/ Please share your thoughts about UK FREE TV

Site development/ The next 50 things on UK FREE TV. What would you like to see?

Site development/ UK Free TV now uses friendly web addresses

Site development/ Best ever emails and improved menus on UK FREE TV

Site development/ Being responsive: a better layout

Site development/ Better tweeting

Site development/ Being responsive: a better menu

Site development/ 12th birthday: six improvements to UK Free TV

Podcast and Links

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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Site development/ FIVE limited resolution in some partsIn some parts of the country FIVE is broadcasting at only 75% resolution until the middle of the month

Site development/ Telling lies? Freeview HD needs no new aerial, nor does play/record/pause

Site development/ Improvement to "Transmission frequencies" on transmitter pages

Site development/ Mobile site version - m.ukfree.tv

Site development/ All transmitters page

Site development/ Catching up to do...

Site development/ We Say You Pay - Richard, Judy and a huge fine.

Site development/ Yorkshire, Westcountry and Border updates

Site development/ DAB links, multiplex lists and compare TV improvements

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Site development/ Final mapping updates: new server, region overlaps, HTML5 radiations and pre-DSOThe mapping updates on UK Free TV have been finalised, with some new features and a dedicated new web server.

Site development/ Site colour code improvements

Site development/ Making a Pandorica out of BBC iPlayer images

Site development/ Site improvements continue to increase speed and popularity

Site development/ Digital Radio's future

Site development/ Quick access to your posts

Site development/ Channel 4 dumps Quiz Call

Site development/ Right... back for good this time

Site development/ Upgrade to sharing and comments on UK Free TV

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Site development/ No ITV2, ITV3 or ITV in East MidlandsIt seems that there are three channels missing from Freeview multiplex 2 in the Central East area.

Site development/ BBC to close 6Music and Asian Network

Site development/ Another apology...

Site development/ Updates from "licences version 7", mixed polarity transmitters, corrections etc

Site development/ Clean-up of information on transmitter pages

Site development/ The Evolution of the Connected Home

Site development/ I went to school with the alleged serial killer

Site development/ All BBC channels now online

Site development/ ITV4 bitrates - an answer

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Site development/ Twitter #ukfreetvA Twitter box has been added to UK Free TV!

Site development/ What will Crozier and Norman do to ITV?

Site development/ Switchover week, and FIVE on Freesat

Site development/ Can you help this poor man make up his mind about BSkyB's ITV stake?

Site development/ Transmitter symbol improvements on UK Free TV

Site development/ DAB updates

Site development/ Thinking about DAB transmitter pages

Site development/ Transmitter engineering blogger

Site development/ BBC iPlayer day

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Site development/ Back again after hardware problemsMy apologies to anyone who I have had to ignore in the last week.

Site development/ Would you like your comments to also have a picture?

Site development/ Blue Peter sunk by Ofcom quiz report

Site development/ No encyption for Freview HD, Freeview HD extended

Site development/ Ofcom - UK Digital Terrestrial Television Transmitter Frequency and Site Data

Site development/ Holiday 2011

Site development/ Want to see where a point on a line of sight on a map? Click on UK Free TV!

Site development/ get_iplayer to return

Site development/ Prediction system update

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Site development/ Want faster mobile access to free TV information? I have made a number of changes to the UK Free TV website to make it work better for the now quite large number of mobile devices that use the site.

Site development/ Apologies...

Site development/ Mobile site under test

Site development/ Post switchover signal strength.

Site development/ Liberals don't like Freeview Lite

Site development/ BBC HD channels on Freeview - dealing with some issues

Site development/ All channels page updated

Site development/ Transmission frequencies better format and show 2013, 2015 and 2020

Site development/ Video of Samsung Freeview HD TV

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Site development/ 'Rawlplugs in handbags' channels face reportThe parliamentary report into TV Quiz channels will report at 10:30am, Thursday 25 January 2007

Site development/ What's coming up

Site development/ GMTV: Another ten million quid quiz rip off?

Site development/ A few problems fixed

Site development/ Who is responsible for digital switchover?

Site development/ So far, so good

Site development/ Paying Sky for free public service television channels

Site development/ Clarifications...

Site development/ QuizCall's Number is Up

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Site development/ ITV Play: Michael Grade wins two million quidWould you like to take a guess how much tax you get back when you donate Â£7.8 million to charity?

Site development/ UK Free TV and all five browsers

Site development/ A question for Freeview user in Scotland

Site development/ Why has the BBC given away 75% of a Multiplex to the commercial sector?

Site development/ BBC Freedom Of Information - transmitter radiation patterns

Site development/ Channel 4 HD free-to-air testing on Eurobird 1

Site development/ Progress report - BBC FOI and my shoulder!

Site development/ BBC FOI transmitter data - first draft

Site development/ What will you be doing in for new year 2020?

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Site development/ Lots of fixes and updates to UK Free TV including Astra 2E and ComuxToday I have updated the UK Free systems to make some updates and corrections. If you have any comments or additions, please let me know in the comments below.

Site development/ Mendip and Winter Hill corrections

Site development/ An update

Site development/ Four brand new mapping sections

Site development/ The new Freeview prediction system - includes Freeview HD

Site development/ Changes to switchover frequencies in Meridian, London and Northern Ireland

Site development/ Upgrade to comment location features

Site development/ New "Reads and Feeds" page

Site development/ Improvements to aerial position information and mixed-polarity transmitters

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Site development/ Improvements to Freeview transmission mode informationFollowing the changes to the commercial multiplexes that are now being rolled out over the main 80 transmitters, I have improved the information shown on the site.

Site development/ The return of the regional television maps

Site development/ Back again...

Site development/ Freeview Light and Radio comparison pages

Site development/ Radio 4 for those with hearing loss?

Site development/ Does the BBC or BSkyB spend more on programmes?

Site development/ Transmitter map updates are coming - soon

Site development/ Want to better understand the current TV faults? See the all new UK Free TV page

Site development/ Update to transmitter location information

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Site development/ Some UK Free upgradesThere have been some upgrades to UK Free TV to deal with new information. This includes various maps, the analogue and DAB radio pages, and fixes for the transmitter information system.

Site development/ ITV1+1, ITV1HD, BBC One HD regional services on Freeview

Site development/ BBC TWO HD, some thoughts

Site development/ Maps and radiation patterns

Site development/ Welcome to the blog!

Site development/ Zingzing TV Listings

Site development/ Tenth years anniversary - what should we do to celebrate?

Site development/ Operation time!

Site development/ Teletext test - which transmitters work?

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Site development/ Saorview updatesContinuing improvements to the information about the free-to-air terrestrial digital television service in Ireland are being made to UK Free TV.

Site development/ Changes to UK Free TV

Site development/ Is this the most far-flung Freesat advert?

Site development/ iPad - what the ASA said about Apples iPhone ads

Site development/ Few site updates

Site development/ Want to compare channels on all free TV services easily?

Site development/ Channel 5 +1 to launch early December on Freeview and Freesat

Site development/ Updates to Engineering information

Site development/ Another beta - FM, LW and MW radio transmitters section

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Site development/ UK Free TV is ten years old todayOn the 5th July 2002, I created the first page on UK Free TV. And now it's ten years later... Here is a short history of ten years of independent, free digital TV advice...

Site development/ Popular misconceptions 3: looking back at DG Greg Dyke

Site development/ Do you need faster radio transmitter maps? See UK Free TV

Site development/ Happy new year...

Site development/ Automatic postcode fixes

Site development/ Find by Frequency and BBC Engineering information fixed

Site development/ Do we need quiz channels?

Site development/ Mid-switchover details added to the Selkirk page

Site development/ Apologies for UK Free down this morning

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Site development/ New features for "My Settings" box and the "Newsbucket"To make it easier to access the UK Free site features, the "My Settings" box has new links and you can read the "Newsbucket" back to May 2008.

Site development/ Regional News Question

Site development/ ITV Play replaces Men and Motors

Site development/ Ofcom: We Say You Pay a million and a half...

Site development/ Kenneth Clark's Civilisation HD

Site development/ Region maps now show in enhanced format

Site development/ Coming up.. digital switchover who's who and Stephen Fry and some Rhinos

Site development/ Christmas help is here...

Site development/ Sales - Freesat and Freeview reductions!

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Site development/ A few speed improvementsA few Christmas upgrades to UK FREE TV

Site development/ MPs slam Quiz TV channels

Site development/ Ofcom publishes Northern Ireland and Tyne Tees switchover data

Site development/ Change from "Share this" to "Like"

Site development/ New look for the daily reading list.

Site development/ I'm back - but slightly incapacitated...

Site development/ Changed multiplex names in shutdown notes

Site development/ Various corrections and updates for Freeview HD, local TV and so on

Site development/ UK Free TV mobile site

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Site development/ Channel 5 HD will launch on FreeviewReports tonight say that Ofcom have agreed that the high definition version of Channel 5 will appear on Freeview HD.

Site development/ BBC Radio 6 Music is essential!

Site development/ Popular misconceptions 1: looking back at "Broadcasting in the Seventies"

Site development/ Comments map

Site development/ Auto location

Site development/ TV region maps now show network connections and transmitter types

Site development/ Switchover process - clarification of details

Site development/ DAB maps - another update

Site development/ Want better aerial to Freeview transmitter terrain plots? Check out UK Free TV!

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Site development/ Updates made to frequencies for transmittersOfcom released a new set of documents recently with changes to the digital transmitter frequency plan.

Site development/ Minister considers TV premium calls ban

Site development/ Links now show with icon

Site development/ Want to see upcoming DAB transmitters or local TV areas? See UK Free TV

Site development/ Welcome to the new-look UK Free TV

Site development/ Spam filter changed to Akismet

Site development/ Sorry for my absence

Site development/ Merge Sky News with The Times?

Site development/ Does the "Teletext Test" work?

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Site development/ Hosting company failureSorry, but there was no UK Free TV access on 18th October 2010 due to a failure

Site development/ DTG Summit: Freeview 700 MHz band for 4G very likely, BBC pay-Freeview not

Site development/ Multiplex names, frequencies and power level highlighting

Site development/ Improvements to UK Free TV transmitter mapping launched

Site development/ Mobile site - an update

Site development/ Digital UK, nice new site, shame about not knowing about FIVE 98.5% after switch

Site development/ Tuesday March 23rd

Site development/ UK digital TV transmitters radiation patterns

Site development/ Which? video shows shop staff knowledge

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Site development/ Box software updatesDetails of the currently broadcast Freeview and Freesat set top box updates has been restored.

Site development/ DAB coverage map improvements

Site development/ 300,000 pound fine for Five's Brainteaser

Site development/ Better multiplex listing icons plus Storeton Wales and Caldbeck Scotland details

Site development/ Jeremy Paxman: how can we trust TV?

Site development/ A festive apology .. and a happy new year!

Site development/ Free channels of the day

Site development/ Compare the free TV channels on the different systems.

Site development/ Changes to the "Frequency Information" section of the transmitter pages

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Site development/ Clarification of engineering informationThe Digital UK engineering information now shows improved information

Site development/ Popular misconceptions 2: looking back at "Extending Choice"

Site development/ Small change the UK Free comments system to help improve site performance

Site development/ Speculation: is BBC three going to be replaced by BBC One +1?

Site development/ Removal of Channel 5 and B transmitter mapping artefacts

Site development/ Looking through the comments

Site development/ Want EVEN better ADVANCED aerial to Freeview transmitter terrain plots?

Site development/ PARAS - Professional Aerial Riggers Against The Sharks

Site development/ A few improvements

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Site development/ ITV Play digital channel axedITV Play is axed - and replaced by ITV2+1 on Freeview

Site development/ 9 weird ways that the weather will actually stop you watching free TV

Site development/ Site speed improvement

Site development/ Digital Britain Report: radio

Site development/ Digital Britain Report report

Site development/ Digital Britain Report - why ITV regional news?

Site development/ ITV: Ten million fake premium rate calls

Site development/ Freeview HD will be 1080p25 and 1080i25.

Site development/ At a funeral - Wednesday

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Site development/ Local TV on FreeviewWhere can local TV go on Freeview?

Site development/ Analogue off tonight from Selkirk and relays + FIVE on Freesat

Site development/ DAB transmitters, multiplexes and radio stations

Site development/ Notes on power increase values

Site development/ Windows 7 Media with interactive BBC Wimbledon

Site development/ Want to report Theft TV to the police?

Site development/ CAI and RDI-LB to merge?

Site development/ Two million pound fine for GMTV

Site development/ Brighton bus stop index

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Site development/ Back againApologies to everyone for not posting since last week.

Site development/ Freeview retune day - how was it for you?

Site development/ A happy MMIX to everyone

Site development/ Whatever happened to Central South, Meridian Newbury and ITV Thames Valley?