December 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 ===
=== December ===
The BBC may launch an BBC ONE HD Channel for viewers in Scotland and Wales on Freeview sometime this month.
=== January 2013 ===
Dave Ja Vu will broadcast all day on Freeview Channel 25.
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 ===
No News...
=== August 2013 ===
BT hope to launch BT Sports on Freeview.
=== September 2013 ===
No News...
=== October 2013 ===
No News...
=== November 2013 ===
No News...
=== December 2013 ===
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 more...
=== March 2013 ===
-Made in Bristol (Bristol, Mendip, Kings Weston relay, Ilchester Crescent relay)
-Made in Cardiff (Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend)
=== September 2013 ===
-Lincolnshire Living [Grimsby (Parts of Kingston upon Hull)] (Is Broadcasting as Seven on Virgin Channel 879 right now).
-Latest TV [Brighton and Hove]
-NvTv (Belfast)
=== October 2013 ===
-SLTV/Sheffield Live (Sheffield)
-Mustard (Norwich)
=== April 2014 ===
-Notts TV (Nottingham)
=== July 2013 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Edinburgh (Dunfermline)
-London (Greater London area)
=== August 2013 ===
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)
=== July 2014 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Newcastle (Gateshead, South Shields, Sunderland, Pontop Pike, Fenham relay)
=== September 2014 ===
The following Local TV areas hope to have an channel on-air by this month.
-Plymouth (Caradon Hill and Plympton relay)
©copyright 2012 Ofcom.
=== New Ofcom licences ===
As of December 2nd 2012.
New licences has been given out to the following Channels by ofcom to broadcast on Freeview:-
-XTSY
-Yesterday +1
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