Advanced Television: ITV, Formula E sign new broadcast deal

Story from Advanced Television:

Formula E and ITV have announced a new free-to-air broadcast deal for the UK and Ireland, with all 16 E-Prix and Qualifying sessions for Season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship to be shown live on ITV4 and ITVX.

Variety: BBC Licence Fee Confirmed Until at Least 2027 as U.K. Culture Minister Considers Funding Options for Broadcaster

Story from Variety:

U.K. culture minister Lisa Nandy has committed to continuing the BBC‘s licence fee model until at least 2027.

Create & Craft Crisis: Create & Craft's November 26th update

Here is today round up of the latest changes to Create & Craft.

Advanced Television: STV “in line” despite ad slump

Story from Advanced Television:

STV Group, in a trading update, has reported that performance remains “in line with market expectations, despite ongoing weakness in the linear TV advertising and commissioning markets”.

Advanced Television: The Smurfs returning to S4C

Story from Advanced Television:

International children’s television favourite, The Smurfs, are set to return to S4C – under their Welsh name, Y Smyrffs – for the first time in 40 years.

Create & Craft Crisis - Create & Craft's EPG ended on Freeview at 6am on Tuesday Morning

From Tomorrow Create & Craft's EPG on Freeview will end at 6am.

Create & Craft Crisis - November 25th update

What media assets of Create & Craft still up for sale:

Sky News: ITV back in spotlight as suitors screen potential bids

Story from Sky News:

Potential suitors have again begun circling ITV, Britain’s biggest terrestrial commercial broadcaster, after a prolonged period of share price weakness and renewed questions about its long-term strategic destiny.

Create & Craft Crisis: Will Create & Craft stop working at 6am on Tuesday on Freeview?

Information found by Media Boy UK on X Follower Popeye.

Create & Craft Crisis: Create & Craft Sky EPG slots has been given back to Sky

Create & Craft Sky EPG slots has been given back to Sky.

November 2024 changes on Freeview

Today's Freeview Changes in full:

Advanced Television: S4C, Media Cymru announce digital future project

Story from Advanced Television:

Welsh-language public service broadcaster S4C and Welsh media consortium Media Cymru have announced that they have called “the most ambitious research and development project in S4C’s history”.

Advanced Television: TNT Sports extends MotoGP deal

Story from Advanced Television:

TNT Sports will continue to be the home of MotoGP after agreeing a new multi-year deal to broadcast the championship in the UK and Ireland.

Create & Craft Crisis: Update about the Create & Craft Channels

Here is the latest information from Media Boy UK on X follower James Robinson.

Create & Craft Crisis: Update about the Create & Craft Channels on Astra UK

Here an update about the Create & Craft Channels on Astra UK by Media Boy UK on X Follower James Robinson.

Advanced Television: Arqiva appoints Steele as Chief of Operations

Story from Advanced Television:

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointment of Mark Steele as Chief of Operations.

Create & Craft Crisis EXCLUSIVE: What is Create & Craft and Craft Extra broadcasting now on Astra UK

Story from Media Boy UK on X:

As of 5.35pm on November 12th Digital Spy Forum did report that Create & Craft has started to broadcast a test tone with coloured bars and is still carrying EPG data. 

Create & Craft Crisis - Create & Craft has now stop broadcasting it channel logo

Create & Craft has now stop broadcasting it channel logo on:

Rumour: Rewind TV may move to Freeview channel 85 next week!

Rewind TV has posted on their X and Facebook pages that Rewind TV IS ON Freeview Channel 85.

Broadband TV News: “Natural leader” Geraint Evans named as new S4C boss

Story from Broadband TV News:

Welsh language channel S4C has announced Geraint Evans as its new chief executive.

The Sun: Exact date Channel 4 will disappear from some Freesat TV boxes in major satellite ‘switch off’ plan

Story from The Sun:

Channel 4 has confirmed the exact date it will no longer be available on some Sky and Freesat TV boxes.

EXCLUSIVE - Create & Craft Crisis: The Create & Craft on Freeview years

Create & Craft on Freeview years: 

Deadline: UK Government Launches Forum To Consider Future Of Linear TV Amid Streaming Revolution

Story from Deadline:

The UK government plans to examine ways of sustainably preserving linear television for older and underprivileged audiences amid the streaming revolution.

Create & Craft Crisis - Business Sale: Confirmed Hochanda Global Limited is now in administration

Story from Business Sale:

Hochanda Global Limited, the company behind online and TV shopping channel Create & Craft, fell into administration towards the end of October, appointing Neil Bennett and Alex Cadwallader of Leonard Curtis as joint administrators.

Is Narrative Entertainment UK Limited set to launch an new channel on Freeview?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited has been given an new DTPS licence by Ofcom for GREAT! mystery.

Create & Craft Crisis: CONFIRMED - Hochanda Global's now in Administration

Media Boy UK on X has just found that Hochanda Global Limited's Companies House page has been updated to reveal.