Freesat finally gets channel Five
Despite the Freesat no-subscriptions digital satellite broadcasting platform having around 140 channels to its name, old analogue 'favourite' Five is not one of them - a fact which has to count as an embarrassment to a TV platform priding itself on being the shiny future of mainstream UK TV.
The Freesat suits will doubtless be mightily relieved, then, that today they're able to reveal that Five is finally arriving on Freesat on November 18th, automatically slotting into the electronic programme guides of existing Freesat receivers at channel location 105.
To all those Freesat users currently sat there reading this article and thinking 'that's funny, I hadn't even noticed Five wasn't there', all I can say is I'm pretty sure you won't be alone...