Freesat Awards 2010

Al-Jazeera English was named Best News Channel at the second annual Freesat Awards held in London

The news channel beat the BBC News channel, Bloomberg, CNN and BBC Radio 5 Live to the accolade.

Best Entertainment Channel went to E4 ahead of BBC HD, BBC Three and ITV2, while ‘Best Music Channel’ was given to urban music [...]

Freesat hits 1 million sales with 250,000 customers added over Christmas and New Year

Freesat delivers 30 percent sales growth since November 
40 percent customers from Sky homes
30 percent share of STB market based on value

Subscription-free digital satellite TV service, Freesat, has delivered 1 million sales in a little over 18 months since its launch in May 2008. 

Freesat enjoyed an excellent Christmas and New Year, increasing sales by 250,000 over [...]

Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD – Techwatch

Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD
Techwatch
As the BBC will also be broadcasting the games in high definition, those households with a Freesat system will be able to watch the games in brilliant HD

and [...]

Project Canvas possible investigation?

According to the Guardian today Ofcom are reportedly considering setting up a competition investigation into Project Canvas which was set up to be an open technological platform for all content owners to bring catch up and on demand TV services for example BBC iPlayer via broadband to network equipped devices such as freesat which as part [...]

LG 32LF7700

The LF7700 series is the first from LG to have a freesat HD via satellite built in as well as Freeview, with freesat HD you will be able to watch all your favourite programs from the BBC and ITV in stunning high definition with over five times the clarity you are used to all for [...]

freesat Channels

Channels in the freesat EPG on 4th April 2010

Entertainment

EPG No.
Channel Name
Date Added

101
BBC One
6th May 2008

102
BBC Two
6th May 2008

103
ITV1/UTV/STV (Dependent on Post Code)
6th May 2008

104
Channel 4/S4C
6th May 2008

105
Channel Five
18th Nov 2008

106
BBC Three
6th May 2008

107
BBC Four
6th May 2008

108
BBC HD
6th May 2008

110
BBC Alba
16th Sept 2008

113
ITV2
6th May 2008

114
ITV2 +1
15th July 2008

115
ITV3
6th May 2008

116
ITV3 +1
6th May 2008

117
ITV4
6th May [...]

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BBCi Sports Multi Screen now live on freesat

The “press red” BBCi Sports multi screen has now gone live in time for the Beijing Olympics. The red button service is available to all digital viewers on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three by pressing the red button. All red button coverage is also available to view live on the BBC Sport website.

All BBC & ITV regions & ITV+1 now added to freesat EPG

As promised by freesat the outstanding BBC and ITV regions and ITV+1 have now been made available on the freesat EPG from today 15/07/08.

Not all the regional variants of BBC and ITV services were available at launch. This was due to technical constraints associated with co-existence on the satellite platform, so freesat adopted a phased [...]

Possible delay for video on demand on freesat

The joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV to launch a video on demand service via the web and hopefully freesat has been dealt a blow by the Office of Fair Trade by referring the venture codename Kangaroo to the Competition Commission.

Project Kangaroo is a single platform for on-demand TV to broadband devices. [...]