October list update.
Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches on Freeview, Local TV news and Digital Switchover dates.
NOTE: All the information on this list is subject to change.
Colours on my list are as followed:
BOLD = New.
=== Coming up on Freeview ===
=== October ===
10th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Brougher Mountain Transmitter will lose BBC Two NI from Analogue TV from today.
10th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Divis Transmitter will lose BBC Two NI from Analogue TV from today.
10th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Limavady Transmitter will lose BBC Two NI from Analogue TV from today.
24th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Brougher Mountain Transmitter will lose BBC One NI, UTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 from Analogue TV from today.
24th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Divis Transmitter will lose BBC One NI, UTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 from Analogue TV from today.
24th. Viewers in the UTV areas using Limavady Transmitter will lose BBC One NI, UTV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 from Analogue TV from today.
=== November ===
No News...
=== December ===
No News...
=== Before 2013 ===
The BBC may launch an BBC ONE HD Channel for viewers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Freeview.
=== January 2013 ===
ITV to rebrand ITV 1, ITV1 +1 and ITV1 HD as ITV, ITV +1 and ITV HD on Freeview in England and Wales only.
==== February 2013 ===
No News...
=== March 2013 ===
No News....
=== April 2013 ===
No News...
=== May 2013 ===
No News...
=== June 2013 ===
No News...
=== July 2013 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Belfast (Lisburn)
-Cardiff (Newport, Bridgend)
-Edinburgh (Dunfermline)
-London (Greater London area)
=== August 2013 ===
BT hope to launch an new Football Channel on Freeview.
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Birmingham (Greater Birmingham area, part of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sutton Coldfield, Brierley Hill relay)
-Glasgow (East Kilbride, Motherwell, Paisley)
-Swansea (Llanelli)
=== September 2013 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Leeds (Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Emley Moor, Beecroft Hill relay)
-Liverpool (St Helens, Widnes, Wigan, Wirral, Winter Hill petal 2, Storeton relay)
-Manchester (Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Winter Hill petal 1, Saddleworth relay)
-Preston (Blackpool)
=== October 2013 ===
No News...
=== November 2013 ===
No News...
=== December 2013 ===
No News...
=== January 2014 ===
No News...
==== February 2014 ===
No News...
=== March 2014 ===
No News....
=== April 2014 ===
No News...
=== May 2014 ===
No News...
=== June 2014 ===
No News...
=== July 2014 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Bristol (Mendip, Kings Weston relay, Ilchester Crescent relay)
-Newcastle (Gateshead, South Shields, Sunderland, Pontop Pike, Fenham relay)
-Nottingham (Waltham, Nottingham relay)
=== August 2014 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Grimsby (Parts of Kingston upon Hull)
-Norwich
-Southampton (Eastleigh, Fareham, parts of Isle of Wight, parts of Portsmouth, Winchester)
=== September 2014 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Brighton and Hove
-Oxford (Abingdon, Didcot)
-Plymouth (Caradon Hill and Plympton relay)
-Sheffield (Parts of Rotherham)
=== October 2014 ===
No News...
=== November 2014 ===
No News...
=== December 2014 ===
No News...
=== Local TV - Unknown dates ===
-Aberdeen
-Ayr (Kilmarnock)
-Bangor
-Barnstaple (Huntshaw Cross and Barnstaple relay)
-Basingstoke
-Bedford (Sandy)
-Bromsgrove
-Burnley (Nelson, Colne)
-Cambridge
-Carlisle
-Carmarthen
-Derry / Londonderry
-Dover (Parts of Folkestone)
-Dundee (Arbroath, Perth)
-Dundee - Tay Bridge relay
-Elgin - Knockmore
-Falkirk (Stirling)
-Gloucester (Cheltenham)
-Greenock (Dunoon)
-Guildford (Parts of Woking)
-Haverfordwest
-Haywards Heath (Heathfield, Uckfield)
-Hemel Hempstead (Parts of St Albans)
-Hereford
-Inverness
-Keighley
-Kidderminster
-Lancaster (Morecambe, Heysham)
-Limavady (Parts of Ballymoney, parts of Coleraine)
-Luton
-Maidstone
-Malvern
-Middlesbrough (Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees)
-Mold (Denbigh, Ruthin)
-Poole
-Reading
-Reigate (Parts of Crawley)
-Salisbury
-Scarborough
-Shrewsbury - The Wrekin petal 2
-Stoke on Trent (Newcastle under Lyme)
-Stratford upon Avon
-Telford (Telford)
-Tonbridge (Parts of Tunbridge Wells)
-York - Bilsdale petal 2
=== Unknown dates ===
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An new 6 hour channel will launch - from 6am till midday.
-News and Kids Channels will move to higher Freeview channel numbers.
-Smooth Radio maybe get rebranded as GOLD Radio on Freeview Channel 718.
-Freeview are making room to launch new channels on Mux SDN and Mux ARQ A.
-The BBC to rebrand BBC HD as BBC Two HD on Freeview as part of BBC Cuts.
-An HD Channel will launch on Freeview in 2012.
=== Ofcom awards more local TV licences ===]
The following new licences are for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels in Bristol, Cardiff and Norwich
The following Local TV areas will launch by:
=== March 2013 ===
-Made in Bristol (Bristol, Mendip, Kings Weston relay, Ilchester Crescent relay)
-Made in Cardiff (Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend)
=== October 2013 ===
-Mustard (Norwich)
©copyright 2012 Ofcom.
=== New Ofcom licences ===
As of August 30th 2012.
New licences has been given out to the following Channels by ofcom to broadcast on Freeview:-
-Big Deal (Mux C)
-Big Deal (Mux D)
-XTSY
-Yesterday +1
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