Information TV is joining Freeview
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Confirmed on the Information TV website, not seen it posted here yet. No idea what hours it is running or channel number.
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Edit: After looking on the website a bit further, it could be talking about 'Russia Today' which is a Information TV owned channel which is on Freeview currently.
Cornwall Channel have said that they are launching on Freeview within three months, and on satellite they are part of Information TV, so looks likely.
Perhaps somebody can email the Caravan Channel or some of the other small channels that are part of Information TV, and see if they say the same thing?
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The channel is launching on freeview, wonder if they are going to take some of Russia Today`s hours
As much as info tv Intrests me, I don't want RT touching. To invaluable a channel IMHO.
Taking 24 of them would be nice!
I sincerely hope that Information TV take up the whole channel slot so that theRT espoo propaganda channel ends up with zero airtime because that channel is a complete disgrace. Anyway, here's what's on the Information TV schedule: http://information.tv/WhatIsOn/TheSchedule/
I'd be very surprised if it did, RT is likely a cash cow for Information TV. There's spare non-Wales space on SDN which would be fairly cheap (remember that the small channels on Information TV will ultimately be paying for it!)
The only thing I can guess that "Espoo" means here is "spew"?
Matches for Espoo on the web say that it's a city in Finland...
If Russia Today is so terrible it will face a fine or even lose its licence one day like Press TV. To date that has not happened. It's biased, no doubt about that, but Fox News is probably a more extreme example; their reporting of US politics needs to be seen to be believed.
It's not just that it is biased, it gives undue prominence to the views of conspiracy theorists. It can come across as quite ridiculous at times.
I hope they do not touch RT channel slot but go after Al Jazzera one instead at least RT is a European channel that was is not complete waste of space .I studied Russia and Central and East Europe on my first degree and enjoy watching this channel sometimes despite it not being a real news channel like Sky News which is also not a real news channel as well.
Well then if serves a section of society who isn't represented anywhere else on freeview. That's important even if it's not you cup of tea.
As I have said before, the channel seemed to spent an awful lot of time in December discussing the US Government working with extra-terrestrials.
Fair enough if that's what The Kremlin feels we should be viewing instead of real news. But it is instead of real news.
It's not my cup of tea, neither is it important, it is simply ridiculous.
The point is that Information TV distribute RT, so could take it off and replace it with their own channel. Al Jazeera have different arrangements for carriage. I seriously doubt that Information TV would be able to outbid Al Jazeera, considering the resources available to the latter.