BBC Four
| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide, also widely available in Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands and United States. |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | BBC |
| Sister channels | BBC One BBC Two BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies |
| History | |
| Launched | 2 March 2002 |
| Replaced | BBC Knowledge BBC Three (Original) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview (UK) | Channel 9 (Eng, Wales, NI) Channel 24 (Scot) Channel 106 (HD) |
| Streaming media | |
| BBC iPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| Horizon Go | Watch live (Ireland only) Watch live (Switzerland only) |
BBC Four is a television channel developed and owned by BBC. The programme often shows documentaries and arts which often have a much smaller audience than BBC One and BBC Two. It shows programmes between 7 pm and 4 am every day timeshared along with CBeebies.
A high definition of the channel, BBC Four HD was launched on 10 December 2013 alongside the sister channels BBC Three HD, BBC News HD, CBBC HD, and CBeebies HD.
References
- BBC One which BBC TG24 closed on 18 October 2023.
- BBC Radio 2 in 2024 has UKTV standby BBC UKTV.
- ITV restarts Tee and Mo on CBeebies at 06:56:59 pm in Dave is no longer in the UK in 2020.