ESPN will broadcast unencrypted throughout the first weekend of February.
The channel will be available for free from Friday 3rd February to Monday 6th February.
Freeview, Sky and BT Vision viewers will be able to watch everything on the channel that weekend with no charge.
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Channel 5 +1 has launched on Freeview, Sky and Freesat today. The one-hour timeshift version of Channel 5 is available on Freeview channel 44, Sky channel 177 and Freesat channel 128.
Freeview customers may need to rescan their set top boxes to pick up this new channel.
It’s thought Channel 5 +1 will be available on Virgin Media some time next year.
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A 1-hour timeshifted version of Channel 5 will launch next month.
Channel 5 +1 will launch on Freeview, Freesat and Sky in early December.
It’s thought Virgin Media TV customers will get the channel at some stage next year.
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If you’ve been missing Challenge since yesterday afternoon you’ll need to rescan your Freeview box.
The channel moved multiplexes on Freeview which requires a retune for most Freeview receivers.
Viewers in Wales can now receive Challenge 24 hours a day.
Pick TV +1 is no longer available on Freeview due to these changes.
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BBC Three will extend its broadcast hours for the duration of the Olympic Games next year.
The BBC have announced BBC Three will be on the air throughout the day to provide coverage for London 2012. BBC Three doesn’t usually start until 7pm in the evening.
BBC Three will supply extended coverage of the Games and that will continue through to 11pm each day. The channel’s normal non-sport programming will continue as normal after 11pm.
News bulletins (BBC Three’s 60 Seconds programme) will continue on the hour every hour throughout the day.
London 2012 runs from the 19th July to the 12th August.
The extended BBC Three hours means BBC Parliament will be removed from Freeview during that period due to the limited capacity on Digital Terrestrial.
BBC Three will revert back to its normal 7pm start time after the 12th August, and BBC Parliament will return to Freeview.
The BBC have also announced a new DAB digital radio station that will be on the air for around 20 days throughout the Olympics. The new station will be called BBC Radio 5 Live Olympics Extra and will run alongside BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
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Freeview customers in Wales will be able to watch Challenge 24 hours a day from the 15th September for the first time. Challenge has been available in other parts of the UK 24/7 since launch, but they never had the capacity in Wales to launch the channel fully from the outset.
Challenge’s official Facebook page confirmed the news.
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Virgin Media has sold its stake in UKTV to Scripps Networks Interactive. The deal, worth £339m, sees Scripps Networks Interactive take Virgin Media’s 50% stake in UKTV.
Scripps Networks Interactive already own other channels such as Food Network which recently made its Freeview debut.
The other 50% share of UKTV is still owned by BBC Worldwide – the BBC’s commercial arm.
Kenneth W. Lowe, chairman of Scripps Networks Interactive, says “making a solid investment in UKTV and entering into a strong partnership with BBC Worldwide reinforces our core international strategy which we believe will create significant long-term value for our shareholders”.
It was originally thought Discovery would get the UKTV stake, but Scripps pipped them to the post.
What will this change mean for the UKTV channels? Will we see more UKTV channels on Freeview? Will certain channels close such as Good Food which has the same remit as Scripps’s own Food Network channel?
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