BBC Four
Appearance
BBC Four | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Broadcast area | Nationwide. Also widely available in Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands and United States. |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC |
Sister channels | BBC One BBC Two BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies |
History | |
Launched | 2 March 2002 |
Replaced | BBC Knowledge |
Links | |
Website | BBC Four |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview (UK) | Channel 9 (Eng, Wales, NI) Channel 24 (Scot) Channel 106 (HD) |
Cable | |
Virgin Media (UK and Ireland) | Channel 107 (HD; UK) Channel 117 (Ireland) |
Kabeltex (Netherlands) | Channel 164 |
UPC Switzerland (Switzerland) | Channel 204 (HD) |
Satellite | |
Freesat (UK) | Channel 107 (SD/HD) Channel 173 (SD) |
Sky (UK and Ireland) | Channel 116 (SD/HD; UK) Channel 143 (SD/HD; Ireland) Channel 815 (SD; UK) Channel 833 (SD; Ireland) |
Astra 2E (28.2°E) | 10773 H 22000 5/6 |
Astra 2G (28.2°E) | 11023 H 23000 3/4 (HD) |
IPTV | |
SwisscomTV (Switzerland) | Channel arbitrary |
KPN (Netherlands) | Channel arbitrary |
Eir Vision | Channel 207 Channel 211 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
BBC iPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
Horizon Go | Watch live (Ireland only) Watch live (Switzerland only) |
BBC Four is a television channel developed by BBC. It was started on 2 March 2002. It often shows documentaries and arts programmes that often have a much smaller audience than BBC One or Two. It shows programmes between 7pm and 4am every day, timeshared with CBeebies.
A high definition of the channel, BBC Four HD was launched on 10 December 2013 alongside the sister channels BBC Three HD, BBC News HD, CBBC HD, and CBeebies HD.
References
[change | change source]- BBC One witch BBC TG24 Closed in Wednesday 18 October 2023
- BBC Radio 2 in 2024 Has UKTV Standby BBC UKTV
- ITV Restarts Tee and Mo on CBeebies at 06:56:59pm in Dave is no longer In the UK in 2020.
Other websites
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