List of British television channels
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National Analogue Terrestrial Stations
The channels are available via an antenna with an analogue TV set.
- BBC One - Run by the BBC, funded by a yearly mandatory licence fee.
- BBC Two - Run by the BBC, funded by a yearly mandatory licence fee.
- ITV1 - Independent commercial broadcaster. Called UTV in N. Ireland, STV & Grampian in Scotland and Channel in the Channel Islands.
- Channel 4 - State-owned commercial broadcaster. Not available in Wales.
- S4C - Independent commercial broadcaster, partly financed by the licence fee. 50% of programming is in Welsh. Wales only.
- five - Independent commercial broadcaster. Is often incorrectly referred to by its original name, Channel 5. Is still not available in the whole of the UK.
National Digital Terrestrial Stations
The channels are available via an antenna with a digital adapter on your existing TV set.
Multiplex One (BBC)
Multiplex Two (Digital 3&4 (ITV/Ch4)).
- ITV1
- ITV2
- ITV3
- ITV News Channel
- Channel 4
- E4
- Big Brother AKA 705
- Top Up TV Stream - Stream of encrypted channels for pay service Top Up TV.
Multiplex A (SDN (ITV plc))
- five
- abc1 (S4C in Wales)
- QVC (QVC/S4C2 in Wales)
- bid tv
- price-drop tv
- Top Up TV Stream
- Top Up TV Stream - 7pm-6am (ABC1's downtime)
- Top Up TV Stream
- Top Up TV Stream
- XtraView
Multiplex B (BBC)
Muliplex C (Crown Castle (NG Transco))
- Sky Travel
- Sky Sports News
- Sky News
- UKTV History
- E4+
- More4 - From October.
Multiplex D (Crown Castle (NG Transco))
Television stations
These channels are available on digital aerial, satellite and cable systems.
- abc1 - operated by Disney under the abc Brand
- Adventure 1 - affiliated with National Geographic Channel
- Amateur Girls
- Animal Planet- operated by Discovery Channel
- Artsworld
- Asia 1
- Asianet
- At the Races - originally operated by Channel 4; now owned by Sky
- B4U Movies
- B4U Music
- B4U TV
- Bangla TV
- BBC Four
- BBCi Interactive Television Service
- BBC News 24
- BBC One
- BBC Parliament
- BBC Three
- BBC Two
- BBC 2W
- BBC Two NI
- BET International
- bid tv
- Bloomberg TV
- Boomerang - operated by Cartoon Network
- Bravo
- Cable Channel One
- Cartoon Network
- CBBC Channel - operated by BBC
- CBeebies - operated by BBC
- CCTV 9
- Celtic TV - operated by Celtic F.C.
- Challenge
- Channel 4
- Chart Show TV
- Chelsea TV - operated by Chelsea F.C.
- CNBC Europe
- CNE
- CNN
- Community Channel
- Discovery
- Discovery Civilisations
- Discovery Health
- Discovery Kids
- Discovery Real Time (formerly Discovery Home & Leisure; originally TLC)
- Discovery Sci Trek
- Discovery Travel and Adventure
- Discovery Wings
- E4 - operated by Channel 4
- EuroNews
- Eurosport News
- Eurosport
- Extreme Sports
- Fashion TV
- FilmFour - operated by Channel 4
- FilmFour Weekly - operated by Channel 4
- five (formerly known as Channel 5)
- Fizz
- Flaunt
- FOX News
- Friendly TV
- Front Row Digital
- Ftn
- FX289 - operated by Fox
- Game Network
- GBC
- GMTV - runs on ITV1 daily, 06:00 - 09:25
- GMTV2 - runs on ITV2 daily, 06:00 - 09:25
- The Hallmark Channel
- Channel Health
- Hellenic
- Hollywood TV
- ITV News Channel (formerly ITN News Channel)
- ITV1 (England and Wales; formerly ITV) UTV in Northern Ireland, Scottish in S. Scotland, Grampian in N. Scotland and Channel TV in the Channel Islands
- ITV2
- ITV3
- Jetix (formerly Fox Kids Network)
- Kerrang! TV (affiliated with Kerrang magazine)
- Kiss TV (affiliated with Kiss FM radio)
- LivingTV
- MATV
- Men & Motors - operated by ITV
- Movies 333
- MTV Base
- MTV Dance
- MTV Hits (MTV Extra prior to May 2001)
- MTV
- MTV2
- Multi Channel
- Music Choice Blues - all Music Choice channels are audio and text only
- Music Choice Classical
- Music Choice Country
- Music Choice Dance
- Music Choice Easy Listening
- Music Choice Europe
- Music Choice Gold
- Music Choice Hits
- Music Choice Jazz
- Music Choice Love
- Music Choice Rock
- MUTV - operated by Manchester United F.C.
- National Geographic
- Nick Jr
- Nickelodeon
- Nicktoons TV
- NTL Front Row - (Pay-Per-View)
- Paramount Comedy 2
- Paramount Comedy
- Performance
- Playboy TV
- Playhouse Disney
- POP
- PremPlus - Formally Premiership Plus(Pay-Per-View)
- price-drop tv
- QVC
- Rai Uno
- Rangers TV - operated by Rangers F.C.
- Red Hot 40+
- Red Hot All Girl
- Red Hot Amateur
- Red Hot Euro
- Red Hot Films
- Red Hot Wives
- S4C
- S4C2
- Sat 1
- Sci-fi (no longer affiliated with US Sci Fi Channel (United States))
- Screenshop
- Scuzz
- Setanta
- Setanta 2
- Shop America
- Simply Shopping
- Sky Box Office - (Pay-Per-View)
- Sky Movies Cinema 1
- Sky Movies Cinema 2
- Sky Movies 1 through Sky Movies 9 (these channels supersede Sky Movies Premier 1 through 5 and Sky Movies Max/Moviemax 1 through 4, but not necessarily in that order)
- Sky News
- Sky Mix (originally Sky One Mix)
- Sky One
- Sky Sports 1
- Sky Sports 2
- Sky Sports 3
- Sky Sports Extra
- Sky Sports News
- Sky Travel
- Sky Travel Extra
- Sony Entertainment TV Asia
- Sound TV - run by Richard Digance and Joe Pasquale
- Star Plus
- TCM
- Teachers TV
- Teleg
- Television X
- The Adult Channel
- The Advert Channel
- The Amp
- The Biography Channel - affiliated with the History Channel
- The Box
- The Community Channel - Public Access Channel
- The Disney Channel
- The God Channel
- The History Channel
- The Hits
- The Landscape Channel
- The Move Channel
- The Music Factory
- The Pakistani Channel
- The Racing Channel
- The Vault
- The Wrestling Channel
- Tiny Pop
- Toon Disney
- Toonami (formerly CNX) - affiliated with Cartoon Network
- Travel Channel
- Trouble
- TV Travel Shop
- TV Travel Shop 2
- TV5
- TVE International
- UKTV Bright Ideas
- UKTV Documentary
- UKTV Drama
- UKTV Food
- UKTV G2
- UKTV Gold
- UKTV History
- UKTV People
- UKTV Style
- UKTV Style Gardens
- VH1 Classic
- VH1
- VH2
- Zee Cinema
- Zee Music
- Zee TV
Many channels have a "timeshift" or "+1" service. This is an identical channel carrying the same programmes delayed by one hour to give viewers another chance to catch a favourite programme. These channels are not included in the table above.
Regional channels
Recent years have seen a succession of regional, often community based, television channels start operating. Often these are tied to a particular city, but available in surrounding areas.
- Channel m, Manchester
- Six TV, Oxford and Southampton
- Solent.TV, Isle of Wight
- York.TV, York.
- UTV ITV Regional Brodcaster in Northern Ireland
- UTV2 Broadcast in Northern Ireland on ONdigital (an early UK pay DTT Network) in place of ITV2 which was available in England and Wales
Student Television Stations
Defunct channels
- Auction World.tv - Licence to broadcast terminated
- BBC Choice - replaced by BBC Three
- BBC Knowledge - replaced by BBC Four
- Carlton Cinema
- EBN - Merged with Bloomberg
- FilmFour Extreme
- FilmFour World
- Granada Breeze
- L!ve TV
- Play UK (originally UK Play)
- Plus - originally Granada Plus; Closed by Granada Sky Broadcasting as part of a deal to carry ITV3 on Sky Digital
- Shop!
- Six TV, Portsmouth
- Super Channel — one of the early pan-European satellite television channels. Was taken over by NBC.
- The Studio - NTL cable only
- .tv - Previously known as The Computer Channel
- Sky 2
- Sky Soap
- The Wrestling Channel Reloaded
- Where It's At
Future channels
New channels
- Faze TV - Television channel targeted towards gay men. Will start broadcasting in September 2005.
- INK - Planned joint venture kids channel between ITV and Nickelodeon.
- More4 - New from Channel 4, broadcasting property and lifestyle programs (was scheduled to launch in the last quarter of 2004)
Imported American channels
International BBC channels
These channels are BBC ventures not available in the UK, in some cases they are similar to channels offered in the UK
- BBC World - formerly World Service Television
- BBC Prime - entertainment channel available in Europe, Africa, Middle East
- BBC America - US Market British Entertainment Channel
- BBC Canada - Canadian Market British Entertainment Channel
- BBC Japan - Japanese market British Entertainment Channel
- BBC Kids - Canada-broadcast children's channel
- BBC Food - Southern Africa/Scandinavia
- People+Arts - Latin America/Iberia