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Originally Posted by Media Boy UK
As seen on my TV
Xpanded WAS timeshare with TWO Channels up to yesterday.
1. Together TV 12am to 3am
2. Then moved over to Smithsonian Channel slot from 3am-7am.
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Here is the up to date list of space on Freeview being unused.
24 hours slots:
-Old 5Select slot on COM4
-Old Create and Craft Extra slot on COM4 - Brandstv is set to launch soon on this slot.
-Old RT slot on COM6
-Old Ideal World Extra slot on Local Mux
Part time slots:
-Smithsonian Channel slot on COM5 (3am to 7am only)
-Jewellery Maker/PBS slot on COM6 (5am to 8am only)
All information right as of March 29th.
All following Channels are set to close/or move to other streams on Freeview by July 2022.
SD:
FreeSports
Quest Red+1
Now 80s
More4+1
PBS America+1
That's TV (UK)
Forces TV
Together TV
HD:
Quest HD
BBC NEWS HD
BBC FOUR HD
CBeebies HD
Plus Brandstv and Talk TV is both set to launch by April 26th on Freeview.
So I think a following may happen (My own views):
-TalkTV may launch on COM4
-Brandstv is set to launch soon on Create and Craft Extra old slot on COM4
-NOW 80s or Forces TV or FreeSports may move to COM6
-NOW 80s or Forces TV or FreeSports may move to LTV Mux
-Together TV may move to COM5 broadcasting from 3am to 7am.
I think That's TV UK will stay on Freeview but only via IPTV (Line up is the same as That's TV Local anyway.)
I think it safe to say the following is set to close on Freeview:
-NOW 80s*
-Forces TV*
-FreeSports*
-Quest Red+1
-More4+1
-PBS America+1
-That's TV (UK)
-Quest HD
-BBC NEWS HD
-BBC FOUR HD
-CBeebies HD
*If any of them do not get one of a two FREE Slots on Freeview (COM6 and LTV Mux).
What’s changing by April 26th:
New Channel Launches
Launch Date - Channel Name - Channel Number
Apr. TBC - Brandstv - Channel 95
Apr. 25th - TalkTV - Channel TBC
All information is right as of March 29th.
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When COM7 closes I think Together TV will move back to COM5 and timeshare with Smithsonian Channel broadcasting from 3am to 7am.
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Do anyone know a viewing numbers for:
-Great! TV
-Great! Movies Classic
-Tiny Pop/ Great! Movies+1?
Here thinking out of the box (By me).
-Tiny Pop moves to COM6 and broadcasting from 5am to 8am.
-Great! Movies+1 moves to Manchester multiplex to timeshare with Pop Max
-That will make room for NOW 80s, Forces TV and FreeSports to all keep broadcasting.
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Xpanded2 wasn't on the same multiplex as Xpanded. It shared with Great! Movies Action on COM4 and closed in mid December.
https://rxtvinfo.com/freeview-updates
BARB website unfortunately stopped providing new Channel Share Ratings from 3rd January but Great! TV (0.17), Great! Movies Classic (0.26) and Tiny Pop (0.13 unusual as normally in 0.20 range) were all
individually getting at least
double/triple the ratings of each of Now80s (0.07), ForcesTV (0.04) & FreeSports (0.06) I think Narrative Entertainment UK's (who own Great! And Pop channels) output has got much more justification to remain where they are.
TogetherTV(0.05) BTW.
BARB website was still providing free Top 10s for individual channels, but I've always found channel share more useful as it covers entire output as, for example, two channels could have similar ratings for their Top10 broadcasts but the rest of the time have wildly different ratings.