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Title: BBC takes over Digital Terrestrial Television
Post by Forum Admin on Jul 4^th, 2002, 11:20pm

The BBC will take over DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) following the demise of ITV Digital.

The Independent Television Commission, as expected, awarded the licences left vacant by ITV Digital's collapse to the consortium headed by the BBC, and including the transmitter company, Crown Castle, and BSkyB.

The licence will run for 12 years.

The ITC set a number of conditions, including a stipulation that BSkyB must not become involved in the running of the new service.

The channels the BBC is intending to make available on the new service are:

BBC ONE
BBC TWO
BBC Choice/Cbeebies
BBC News 24
BBCi text
ITV 1
ITV 2
Channel 4
spare for C4
Teletext
Channel 5
QVC / S4C
TV Travelshop
* / S4C2
ITN News
BBC Parliament
The Community Channel
BBC FOUR / CBBC
BBCi (interactive)
6 BBC Radio Services
Sky News
Sky Sports News
Sky Travel
UK History
Commercial Radio *
CNN/Boomerang/TCM
An entertainment channel *
A music service *
An interactive service *
Commercial Radio *

(* = to be confirmed)

Read the ITC press release here

Read the Guardian story here