Freesat, today announced the addition of six new radio and television channels launching this Friday, the 5th September.
The newest additions to the Freesat roster particularly strengthen the platform’s radio line-up, including from the Republic of Ireland RTE’s Radio 1, RTE 2fm, RTE lyric fm and RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta. This means that RTE Radio 1 is broadcasting for the GAA All Ireland Hurling Final this weekend, and the All Ireland Football Final on 21 September.
Also new to the platform are the three time-delayed services from Channel 4, including Film4 + 1, More4 + 1, and E4 + 1. All channels will show identical programming to the originals, but time-delayed by one hour.
The Channel 4+1 stations are already free-to-air and will join Freesat at a later date.
All channels and variants will automatically be added to the set-top boxes, so viewers will not need to take any action to view the new services.
Freesat has announced that they are adding another 18 channels on the free-to-watch high-definition platform in the next few weeks.
The first set of channels, launching Thursday 24 July, features a range of entertainment, news, shopping and gaming channels including:
Zone Horror (136)
Zone Reality (138)
Russia Today (206)
The Fight Network (251)
Inspiration (960)
PitchWorld (804)
Gems TV (805)
Shop on TV (807)
Netplay TV (851)
Gala TV (861)
The second set, to launch Friday 1 August, consists of popular radio stations, including:
Capital Radio (719)
Choice FM (720)
Classic fm (721)
XFM (723)
Gold (722)
NME Radio (newly launched, 727)
Insight Radio (777)
BFBS Radio (786)
Emma Scott of Freesat’s MD said of the new channels:
Following last week’s launch of BBC and ITV regional variants, these new TV and radio channels further enhance Freesat’s offering and provide extra choice to viewers and listeners. This is great news for Freesat customers and something we will continue to do this year and beyond.
Freesat, today announced the addition of six new radio and television channels launching this Friday, the 5th September.