freesat delivers a large choice of TV channels without any monthly bills, and it even offers free high definition TV
freesat is the new way to watch digital TV – simply, reliably and for free. You can receive all your old favourites from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, as well as new digital channels showing news, films, entertainment, shopping, children’s programmes, and much more.
The wide choice of channels - over 140 - is backed up with digital subtitles and audio description, digital interactive text services, an eight-day on-screen programme guide, and digital radio stations too.
As well as great TV channels for free, freesat also delivers additional “red button” interactive services and digital text, digital subtitles and audio description, and an on-screen guide (the “electronic programme guide”, or EPG) to the next eight days’ programmes so you can check the times, read the programme details, select the programme you want to watch, and with freesat+ you can even book a future show for recording.
A freesat digital box can also be used to upgrade an old video or DVD recorder for digital, so you can keep recording programmes from these channels long after Digital Switchover.
Who can get freesat?
Wherever you live, you can watch the old channels you’ve always enjoyed, and add many more, with digital quality pictures and sound. Because these services are received with a satellite dish instead of an aerial, it is available to almost every household in the UK. Even those homes who can’t get Freeview reception can enjoy the wider range of free TV channels from satellite.
How to get freesat
To watch freesat, all you need is a freesat digital box, or a TV with freesat built-in, and a dish. A number of manufacturers are producing freesat boxes and TVs, for sale online or in high street stores, where they can arrange the dish installation too.
- To find out more about freesat: visit the freesat website or call 08450 990 990
- To find a local freesat retailer: use the Freesat store finder, visit the RETRA website, or call 01234 269 110