New freesat advertising campaign

freesat has today 4th November unveiled its largest advertising campaign to date, launching 4th November, which will highlight the satellite TV service’s subscription-free high-definition (HD) offer and run across national newspapers, supplements, TV listings publications, commuter press and a wide range of digital media.

The campaign centres around viewers’ emotional responses to watching their favourite programmes [...]

freesat to add 18 channels in July and August

freesat has today announced the following eighteen channels will join freesat between the end of July and August, in a press release today Emma Scott, Managing Director of Freesat, commented: “Following last week’s launch of BBC and ITV regional variants, these new TV and radio channels further enhance Freesat’s offering and provide extra choice to [...]

Panasonic launches the UK’s first HD televisions with freesat HD built-in

Panasonic announce TV’s with freesat built in:
The PZ81 Series, available in three screen sizes: TH-42PZ81 (42”), TH-46PZ81 (46”) and TH-50PZ81 (50”) will be available instore from June.

These stylish and desirable plasmas boast a host of features to deliver outstanding moving picture resolution and beautiful colour reproduction together with brilliant sound and easy operation, giving viewers [...]

freesat Launch Press Release

Official freesat press release

Tuesday May 6 -2008
Free digital television and HD for everyone – no subscription, no contract
BBC HD available now and ITV HD to launch exclusively on Freesat

Freesat, the new, free, digital satellite television service launches today, Tuesday 6 May 2008. Freesat is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV.

Reaching almost all of [...]

freesat launch day!

After a slow even secretive? launch freesat has officially launched today and the freesat website has finally gone live freesat.co.uk

E4 and More 4 have gone free to air since late morning

A media frenzy is promised, lets see what happens….

ITV HD reported testing

The HD (High Definition) channel for ITV has been reported as testing today one week in advance of the launch of freesat.