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25 June – The final episode of BBC One's The Human Body is the first British television programme to show the final moments of a cancer patient. 63-year-old Herbert Mower, who died the previous year, had given permission for his death to be recorded for the series. [ 47] 26 June – Launch of the music channel Kiss TV.
1955-1959. 1955. 22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes. 12 October - ITV shows live football for the first time. They cover the second half of a floodlit friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Vasas Budapest from White Hart Lane, although the foggy weather may have affected the broadcast.
This is a list of the free-to-air channels that are currently available via satellite from SES Astra satellites ( Astra 2E / 2F / 2G) at orbital position 28.2 °E, serving Ireland and the United Kingdom. Sky and Freesat use these satellites to deliver their channels. If one was to change providers between Sky and Freesat, one would not require ...
A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there were 485 TV stations, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010.
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. [1] It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 [ 2 ] both of which are freely available to a majority ...
It usually broadcasts sport events, archival programming, and, similarly to ITV3, movies. A timeshift channel, ITV4 +1, is available on Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media. ITV4 HD is the HD television channel of ITV4, launched in 15 November 2010 along with ITV3 HD. Until 8 November 2022, it was a pay-TV channel.
[5] [6] The existing BBC TV channel is renamed BBC1. 21 April – Play School is first broadcast on BBC2; the launch schedule, abandoned on the previous day, is shown in full this evening. 26 April – News Review, a summary of the week's news with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, is broadcast for the first time as part of the launch ...
Debut of The Irish R.M. on Channel 4 in the UK and RTÉ1 in Ireland. 14 January – TV-am broadcasts a special edition to advertisers ahead of its official launch on 1 February. 17 January – At 6:30am, Britain's first-ever breakfast television show, Breakfast Time, launches on BBC1. 29 January – Tom Keating On Painters is rebroadcast.