Its the only channel on Freesat that I would like on Freeview. There are a few music channels on that format, but they don't look particulary interesting.

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I think the horror channel would fill a niche on freeview. It not just horror films, it's a channel dedicated to 'cult entertainment'.

With all the 'general entertainment' channels, a cult channel would be a nice addition....

If it includes stuff like 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Tales of the Unexpected', then count me in.

Horror and CBS Action would be good additions to freeview and would probably do well.

I'd definitely watch both of em!

The Community Channel has taken bid's old broadcast hours. Now on air 0300-0000.

At least until Arqiva rents out the slot*...


*The Community Channel is a charitable organisation and receives free airtime, according to its website. It's hours have in the past been extended on Freeview on a temporary basis, filling otherwise vacant bandwidth.

so do you no what's has happen to they old hours.

No, that's on the local multiplex.

Community Channel came on in the late afternoon. Null packets on ARQA were reduced significantly at that point.

Source: http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...ng=en&mux=ARQA

Makes the slot on LCN109 from COM7 pretty superfluous as it's only upscaled SD.

What "old hours"?

I notice that some programmes are scheduled to cross the midnight boundary, does this mean that on Freeview at the stroke of midnight someone just 'pulls the plug' on them so to speak?

3am to 8am

The Community Channel still use 3am-8am the old hours from bid are on the same stream.

Effectively yes, although it is all automated. The video/audio etc streams used by Community Channel are removed at midnight and replaced with an off-air MHEG slate. A few seconds later the video/audio streams of Party channel become active. Community Channel and Party share capacity on the multiplex, so can't have streams active at the same time.

But both are donated .... Thanks to Arqiva who I am sure are looking for paying customers
And how long is red bee going to sustain SD playout ?

This is the first time in a decade I've been able to check out the community channel. Not bad stuff. It'd be alright in a proper daytime slot. Between 9.00 and 6.00, maybe.....

i belive that ITV ENCROE will take freeveiw LCN 23 as soon as the deal ends with Sky

Going to be ITVBe is it not?

Channel 23 is assigned to local TV in Scotland and Wales.

And will not be used in England.

Seeing as ITV's business model these days seems to rely very much upon paywalls, I doubt that very much

ITVBe will be free to air and ITV encore would have been probably more Sky's support that made it happen because a company like ITV having a channel part of Sky's subscription packages would mean more subscribers and so Sky would be giving ITV a large portion of the subscription money to keep it on Sky only and making up for the lower advertising money due to lower viewers.

ITV Encore is the only channel that ITV has that's only subscription and the only planned subscription channel ITV has, there are also ITV HD channels that are part of a subscription but that's because they're expensive to run and HD channels need money from subscriptions to pay for the channel.