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ITV3 +1 started to broadcast on Freeview from 9pm - 12am. In 2020. To coincide the launch of new channel Merit, ITV3 +1 moved to channel 58 on Freeview swapping with ITVBe +1 which moved to channel 97. Since 30 November 2023, ITV3 +1 cut broadcasting hours to 2 hours each night from 4am - 6am, after ITV cleared a Freeview slot. [18]
The channel is available free-to-air on Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media. A high-definition simulcast and timeshift channel, ITVBe HD and ITVBe +1, are also available. On 3 September 2018, ITV introduced a new children's strand titled LittleBe, which is dedicated to British preschool programming on ITVBe. [2]
The channel began broadcasting at 9pm on 29 July 2020, its launch delayed from the earlier date of 8 July; under its first iteration it was owned by the ITV Digital Channels division of ITV plc. [4] It broadcast three hours daily from 9pm to midnight on the former ITV3 +1 Freeview channel slot (which itself was moved to channel 58). [5]
[citation needed] As part of a number of changes to ITV's broadcasting, ITVBe +1 was removed from Sky and Freesat on 13 April 2021. [3] ITVBe +1 is also available on Freeview, broadcasting between 2am and 4am. The Main ITVBe Channel has broadcast hours of 7:30am to 1:30am and again from 3:30am to 6am with unwind with ITV airing from 3:30am to 6am
ITV HD became ITV1 HD when it relaunched for Freeview HD on 2 December 2009. [3] It continued to operate on Freesat as a red button service on select programming. ITV1 HD aimed to include 35% 'native HD' content at the start of 2010, rising to at least 60% at the start of 2012 and at least 70% at the start of 2014.
From 1993, mergers between ITV companies became possible; as a result, companies began to take each other over to increase efficiencies and to expand. By 2004, all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales were owned by the newly formed ITV plc, the four other franchises being Scottish TV, Grampian TV, UTV and Channel.
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ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel [b] owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc.It provides the Channel 3 public broadcast service across all of the United Kingdom except for the central and northern areas of Scotland where STV provides the service.