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ITV1+1 11 January 2011 (at last)

After a number of false starts, ITV1+1 is expected to come on air 8pm, 11 January 2011.

After a number of false starts, ITV1+1 is expected to come on a
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It was first expect that ITV1+1 would come to Freeview during the 30 September 2009 Freeview retune, but this did not happen due to last minute rights issues.

When ITV plc, which runs the official channel 3 services in England and Wales, was created from the merger of two companies, Carlton and Granada, the Competition Commission imposed conditions, which are called the Contract Contracts Rights Renewal (CRR) remedy.

Almost all the other channels that have "+1" time shift channels are single national broadcasts. It is straightforward to create ITV2+1, for example. The output of the channel is fed into a "black box" that re-outputs the content an hour later, and used for a national broadcast.

As the streams for UTV+1, and STV+1 are now on satellite, we can be confident that the ITV+1 service will run throughout the UK.



Channel 4 plus one

It was a little more complicated for Channel 4. This commercial channel has no local or regional editorial content, but does have six regions for advertising: London, Southern England+Wales, Midlands, North England, Scotland, Northern Ireland.



To create Channel 4+1, the corporation needed to use six "black box" devices, to ensure the correct advertisements are seen.

Channel 3 plus one

Back at channel 3, the ITV1 channel has many advert regions. STV, which runs the channel in Scotland, divides into four:


UTV operates only a single service in Northern Ireland (covering Belfast, Londonderry, Ballycastle, Castlederg). ITV plc has the following advertising regions:


This requires, for each region, a separate "black box". These "black box" devices must feed the hour-delay signal back into Multiplex 2 (also known as multiplex PSB2) as only this multiplex has the correct regions.


ITV1+1 on screen graphic.

Latest ITV multiplex allocations

The slot on PSB2 currently used for the ITV2+1 will be used for ITV1+1. ITV2+1 will move to the slot on multiplex A (aka COM4 or SDN) currently used for the "ITV Preview". As this slot timeshares with the CITV children's channel, ITV2+1 will only operate during peak hours.



Public service transmitters

As the public service transmitters carry only the PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 (HD) multiplexes, this means that ITV1+1 will be carried to all UK homes, and ITV2+1 will only be available to those with the full Freeview service.

Free to air satellite

Freesat users will see ITV1+1 (or STV+1 or UTV+1) on channel number 112. For ITV1+1 fSfS and Sky use channel number 131, ITV2+1 moves to 179.

On satellite transponder 53 (10.891 H) has UTV+1, ITV1 Central West+1, ITV1 London+1; transponder 54 (10.906 V) has STV West+1, ITV Granada+1, ITV 1 Merdian South+1.

Channel 5 plus one?

So, what of FIVE+1? The channel has four advert regions: Scotland, Northern England, London and "Network". However, there is no space on multiplex 2 (PSB2) for such a channel, and no other multiplex has the correct divisions.

Contact information

Any further questions, please contact ITV on 0844 881 4150.

On Virgin Media ITV1+1 is 114.

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Comments
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Briantist
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9:51 PM

Mark Aberfan Aerials: BT Vision have been a bit slow off the starting blocks with their HD box.

I note there were plenty of Freeview HD boxes in Brighton's Asda today. No use here for another 18 months!

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Briantist
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9:52 PM

Mark Aberfan Aerials: I didn't realise that Sky had actually made any Project Picnic boxes. Yes, very delusional.

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Mark Aberfan Aerials
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10:37 PM

Hi Brian,

The picnic boxes were de-branded & sold off very cheap via trade outlets.

About 5 years ago all sky asa's were called to meetings where as well as the usual threats about selling more subs & less freesats, some jumped up twat informed the room that picnic would have approval within weeks & that picnic & sky would dominate freeview very quickly. I think that the only person in the room who believed this crock was the twat spouting it ! With so much unfounded faith in themselves it was no great surprise they ordered the receivers before ofcom's consent.

Mark Aberfan Aerials

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alan calrk
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10:45 PM
Eastbourne

Hi Brian
Being a newbe at this Freesat lark, I'm at a loss to to know why I can't get ITV1+1 by putting in the channel number 112 it keeps reverting back to the channel it was on.
Question do I need to do a return?
Thanks' in advance

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alan clark
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10:57 PM
Eastbourne

Bit of a typo on my part on last post!!
I should have said retune and to have stated that it's a Humax Foxsat HD box.
Thanks' again

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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:00 AM

alan clark: You should not have to do anything, ITV1+1 should have appeared at 112 automatically.

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Briantist
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7:02 AM

Mark Aberfan Aerials: The whole point of Picnic was to wreck Freeview, I suppose ordering equipment for it showed a level of confidence in them getting Ofcom to wave it though.

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cerys
10:20 AM

Well I haven't watched ITV1+1 yet but what I can tell you is that following the rescan I now have on channel 90 TV News "Back Soon!" from mux ARQ B on C49 and on channel 820 TV News "Coming Soon!" from mux ARQ A on C30. I receive both of these from Wenvoe. Any ideas? CITV is yet to return )-:

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Briantist
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10:21 AM

cerys: CITV is not broadcast in Wales.

The "TV News" channel doesn't really seem to do anything useful, I wouldn't worry about it.

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George Buchanan
10:35 AM

STV+1 is on satellite. Just watched Jeremy Kyle (briefly, obviously...) while This Morning is on STV real time. STV+1 has the DOG as well. Channel name seems to be 10255.

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