Free-to-air TV viewers within the UK will get regional information programming in HD ultimately.
The BBC is lastly prepared to supply regional information programmes in HD to Freeview and YouView viewers. The overwhelming majority of regional BBC One HD companies will likely be obtainable to view free-to-air on TVs and set-top-boxes from tomorrow, Wednesday 22 March 2023. The one exception is within the South East of England, with South East At present set to be rolled out in excessive definition from 26 April.
It will lastly guarantee that the majority BBC One viewers will have the ability to see uninterrupted information and different regional programming in HD on the identical channel - 101. For the final 17 years, BBC Information viewers have needed to swap throughout to the usual definition BBC One channel to observe native information broadcasts or face the countdown clock on the HD channel.
With help Freeview and YouView being added to Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media TV, BT TV and different related platforms, it solely leaves BBC iPlayer as unable to obtain BBC One HD for English areas. Nevertheless, the improve for that service is being labored on too.
The BBC has prompt that if you don't get BBC One HD on channel 101 in your TV or Freeview/YouView set-top-box from tomorrow, chances are you'll must retune the gadget manually. In any other case, it ought to replace robotically.
You will discover the listing of regional information programmes that can now be in HD beneath - they are going to broadcast from 6.30pm GMT:
- East Midlands At present
- Midlands At present
- Look North (East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire)
- BBC London
- BBC Channel Islands Information
- Look North (Yorkshire)
- Look North (North East & Cumbria)
- North West Tonight
- Factors West
- Highlight
- South At present
- Look East
- South East At present - from 26 April 2023
The BBC first broadcast its BBC One HD service in 2006, however regional programming by means of the identical channel quantity has proved tough. A lot in order that, even with some pay TV platforms adopting Extremely HD and HDR, it may solely supply native information in customary definition for nearly twenty years.
Nonetheless, higher late than by no means and, as house owners of a Sky Glass TV or Sky Stream field have been first to understand, uninterrupted HD programming from the Beeb makes the news-watching expertise a lot better.
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