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Television in the United Kingdom

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British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media.

Analog terrestrial broadcasters:

  • The BBC is the oldest British broadcaster. Its analog channels are BBC1 and BBC2.
  • Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original commercial British television broadcasters, set up in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC. Its flagship analog channel is ITV1
  • Channel 4 was launched in 1984.
  • Channel 5 was the final analog broadcaster to be launched. Its coverage is less than that of the other analog broadcasters.

All of these channels are also carried on satellite television, cable television and digital terrestrial television channels.

No further analog broadcasters are expected to be launched, and efforts are being made to move analog channels to digital television so that the bandwidth allocated to analog television can be reused.

The major competitors to the old analog broadcasters are the cable companies NTL and Telewest, and the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

See also:

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