BBC 4

BBC Four
Replaced:	2nd March 2002
Audience Share (Aug 2004):	0.2%
Owned By:	BBC
Web Address:
Availability
Terrestrial Analogue:	Not Available
Terrestrial Digital:	Freeview Channel 10
Satellite:	Sky Digital Channel 116
Cable:	NTL Channel 127 Telewest Channel 107

BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital TV (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK.

History

BBC Four is the successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge. It began broadcasting on March 2 2002 in a simulcast with BBC TWO.

Programming

The channel broadcasts a mixture of art and science-related documentaries, archive drama (including many rare black and white programmes), and non-English language films.

On weekdays the channel shows a 30 minute global news programme called The World, simulcast with and produced by BBC World.

Broadcast method

On the digital terrestrial platform (aka Freeview) BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed 10 Megabit stream in Multiplex 1 that shares its bandwidth with the CBeebies channel.