Correction to last month's changes: YAAAS! is on Freely channel 358 - not 357. Freely's error, not ours!

Summary of changes: Service Removal: That's Rock MCR (Manchester area) New services: That's 80s (4am-6am) Freeview 78 - Freely 405 That's 80s MCR (Manchester area): Freeview 93 - Freely 406 continued...

The blogs have been updated with Wednesday's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for October 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Ok, we've had to use url shorteners to fit everything into the Bluesky bio for this and the UKIPTVC feeds. It doesn't look great but at least everything fits and works. We may switch to a link in bio for Bluesky feeds, where space is limited. X has its own link in bio and Mastodon has enough space.

Welcome to a new feed from the MCUK family and the return of a familiar name. UK Media Watch will carry occasional posts with a focus on politics and the media. @ukmediawatch.bsky.social

For those asking (and disinclined to actually read the blog) these are the channel numbers for Wednesday's changes: wedotv Movies UK - Freeview 98 - Freely 143 Cartoon Classics - Freeview 214 - Freely 365 YAAAS! - Freeview 211 - Freely 357 Gemporia - Freeview 45 - Freely 454

The terrestrial tv blog has been updated with today's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com

The Freely blog has been updated with today's changes. The Channel4 exclusive channels added in September and the Freely native SID list have also been updated. Further details: ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com

Today's changes: YAAAS! moved from SDN to the local mux. wedotv Movies UK launched as a full broadcast channel on the local mux. Cartoon Classics launched as a streaming channel on the local mux. Gemporia is the new name for Gems TV.

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for September 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

At a UKCG meeting today it was decided to reimpose the restriction on UKCG data being released through public forums. It is inappropriate to release information via platforms which promote fantasy scenarios over, or even alongside, facts. Promoting fantasies only sows confusion.

The blogs have been updated with Wednesday's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com The delay was due to SQL database extracts being unavailable during system maintenance.

Only minor changes today. Additions / removals of limited coverage streaming channels. A continuation of the case changes to Narrative's service names and the removal of the UK Radio Portal, which had been unavailable via DTT for a while. Blogs will be updated overnight.

Our colleagues at UK Media Entertainment News have noted that automated moderation is incorrectly applying "graphic media" flags, e.g. to horror movie reviews. Protocol across all UKCG feeds is to delete mislabelled posts. replacing them with a link to the equivalent post on Mastodon.

The big question arising from yesterday's rebranding of Narrative Entertainment's channels is: did Everyone TV get the capitalisation right? A quick look at Narrative's own website indicates that even they are confused... narrative.com/assets/great...

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for August 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

The blogs have now been updated with the capitalisation changes to some GREAT! branded channels. GREAT! tv becomes Great! TV GREAT! action becomes Great! Action GREAT! player becomes Great! Player GREAT! romance mix remains unchanged.

The blogs have been updated with today's changes. GREAT! romance becomes Great! Christmas GREAT! movies becomes Great! Mystery GREAT! mystery becomes Great! Movies Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com

End of an era... Notts TV closed at midnight. nottstv.com/thank-you-fo...

Notts TV to stop broadcasting at the end of August – Notts TV News nottstv.com/notts-tv-to-...

The blogs have been updated with Wednesday's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com

Sorry about the delay to the analysis of today's changes on Freeview and Freely. The data is being processed and the blogs will be updated overnight.

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for July 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Interesting. If these devices are relatively cheap I might get one to help with background "Freely" information. - Damien netgem.co.uk/2025/07/31/f...

Must Have Ideas launched on Freeview channel 96, Freely channel 463 this morning at 5am as a part-time shopping channel. -Damien

Sorry for the delay updating the blogs. I've been waiting for confirmation of various changes on Freely. That said, our Freely database is in need of an update, so I will be taking a look at that over the weekend. - Damien

The blogs have been updated with today's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com - Damien

The blogs will be updated this evening with the latest DTT changes on Freeview and Freely. - Damien

Ofcom DTPS licence change. July 11th DTPS000062BA/9 (multiple services). Service name U&Dave +1 (UDave1) removed from the licence. The U&Dave Ja Vu (UDaveJaVu) name remains.

Ofcom DTPS licence change. July 10th DTPS103227BA/2 (multiple services). Service name updated from That's Pride (ThatsPride) to That's Dance (ThatsDance). Catching up with a change made on June 18th. A similar update was noted for TLCS105276BA/3

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for June 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Ofcom licence changes noted this morning: New DTAS licence IndiaToday has been added as a named service to Synapse TV Limited licence number DTAS000047BA/31 The licence covers multiple services.

Ofcom licence changes noted on Thursday June 26th: New DTPS licence HobbycraftTV Licensee: Shop Unlimited Live Limited Licence Number: DTPS105759BA/1

The blogs have been updated with today's changes. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com Subject to possible further updates.

Note: Freely and the 4seven multiplex change: The change of multiplex for 4seven should have no impact on *connected* Freely devices, which use the IP based service rather than the "over the air" service.

The SID 8460 tests on D3&4 rolled out, this morning, across regions beyond London. As widely rumoured, this service is 4seven. Which is migrating to D3&4 from its usual slot on Arqiva A. Full details to follow.

Blogs and feeds will be updated for this morning's changes by this evening, as always. In the meantime. Everyone TV have the usual, incomplete, updates on their websites. www.freeview.co.uk/help/updates... www.freely.co.uk/help/updates...

The blogs have been updated for the changes on the 9th and 13th of June, as far as possible with the information we currently have. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com

The blogs haven't been updated, this is because the service type of That's TV 3 hasn't changed so, effectively, there hasn't been a change. the only change is to PMT data, which isn't logged. The blogs will be updated later with revised PMT data but will only be listed as a note.

A full update for SID 8460 will appear when it is added to a location we actively monitor. Roll out across D3&4 is expected in the coming week. A special thanks to Jake for managing to update the blogs for the ITV Quiz rebrand without actually having access to the database. Nice work.

Access to the database was restored at around 9PM but getting everyone in the right place to do the updates on a Saturday evening has been a challenge. The blogs will be updated overnight. Again, apologies for the chaos caused by the system change.

Ok, I'm back. First of all, apologies to monitoring and to Jake and Rob who were locked out of the database. The system changes were scheduled for July so shouldn't have happened while I was away. Now starting the process to get everything working again. This could take a while!

Note that an additional service SID 8460 has appeared on D3&4, currently only in the London area. Using MPEG-2 and not MPEG-4 as with the recent changes to That's TV3. More information to follow. -Jake Also, our database access issues should be fixed by tonight.

The blog will be updated this weekend when more information is available from monitoring but it appears that That's TV 3 has been converted to MPEG-4 on D3&4. An unusual combination for DVB-T in the UK, although this non-standard format has been used in Ireland.

The blogs have been updated for the ITVBe rebrand to ITV Quiz on the 9th of June. Further details: ukterrestrialtvchanges.blogspot.com ukfreelytvchanges.blogspot.com Ofcom renamed the DTPS licence on the 10th of June.

Ofcom's monthly licensing update summary has been released for May 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Ofcom licence changes noted this morning: New DTAS licence OUTflixProud has been added as a named service to Synapse TV Limited licence number DTAS000047BA/31 The licence covers multiple services.