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BBC Four

BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital TV (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. It is the successor to BBC Knowledge, and began broadcasting on March 2 2002 in a simulcast with BBC TWO.

The channel comes across as an audio-visual version of radio, particularly Radios 3 and 4, broadcasting a mixture of art and science-related programmes, 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.

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.

External link

• BBC Four website

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