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DTT on Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

The UK digital terrestrial TV (Freeview) network officially covers the United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (the Baliwicks of Jersey and Guernsey). There is some overspill into neighbouring countries, most notably the Republic of Ireland.

The overseas territories below have services that are outside the scope of this website, but collated here due to their British links.

Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands get the BFBS service. There are two slightly different setups, one from Mount Pleasant (MPA) for military users, and the other from Sapper Hill for civilian users in Stanley. As at March 2015, the channels are believed to be:

1BBC 1MPA only
2BBC 2MPA only
3ITVMPA only
4BFBS ExtraMPA only
5Sky Sports 1MPA only
6Sky Sports 2MPA only
7BFBS SportMPA only
8Sky News 
11BBC 1 - DelayedDelayed by four hours from UK time
12BBC 2 - DelayedDelayed by four hours from UK time
13ITV - DelayedDelayed by four hours from UK time
14BFBS Extra - DelayedDelayed by four hours from UK time

British Forces in other areas can also receive BFBS' DTT service. Although this is a UK provided DTT service, it is not broadcast here or in any way related. We have archive snapshots prior to 27th March 2013, and 2007.
On 27th March 2013 the BFBS service changed to instead provide the following channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Sky News, BFBS Extra, BFBS Sport, Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2, CBBC, CBeebies. For more information see the BFBS website.

St Helena

St Helena has a subscription DVB-T2 network carrying 30 channels via Sure South Atlantic Ltd. As of March 2025, the channels are believed to be as follows: (numbers are not LCNs and the lighter background is part of the Premium package)

1MNET
2MNET Movies 1
3MNET Movies 3
4MTV
5BBC World
6BBC Brit
7Discovery Channel
8Nickelodeon
9Nick Toons
10Food Network
11Universal TV
12SS Cricket
13SS Tennis
14SS Premier League
15SS Golf
16SS Rugby
17SS Action
18Curiosity
19SS Motorsport
20Studio Universal
21E! Entertainment
22Discovery Family
23National Geographic Wild
24MNET Movies 2
25History Channel
26Sky News
27Disney Junior
28Nickelodeon Junior
29SS Football+
30Discovery ID

Note that these cover St Helena only, not the wider administrative area encompassing Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha (Ascension Island has a limited analogue BFBS service - see Falklands). Transmitter sites are as follows:

TX SiteChannel 1Channel 2
Briars5759
High Knoll (Half Tree Hollow)5153
Head O Wain (Blue Hill, Barren Ground)4244
The Depot (Blue Hill, Sandy Bay)4649
Rosemary Plain (Guinea Grass, Trap Cott)5759
Sunberry (Longwood Hangings, Levelwood)4346
The Flag (Levelwood)5153
Field Road (Jamestown)4244
Deadwood (Deadwood, Rupert's, Coltsheds)4035

Gibraltar

Gibraltar has a two mux service known as Gibraltar Freeview. This was implemented by Arqiva but otherwise has no relationship to the UK's Freeview. There is a DVB-T mux on UHF56, and DVB-T2 mux on UHF30. As at May 2015, the channels are believed to be as follows:

GBC TVTVUHF30
GBC TV HDHDTVUHF30
Al Jazeera English  

There is also a BFBS DTT service available "over cable" (see Falklands)

Other territories

The following list is based on that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as at Jan 2013, and contains the state of digital terrestrial TV service in each territory:

AnguillaNo known service
BermudaSubscription service provided by WOW
British Antartic TerritoryNo known service
British Indian Ocean TerritoryNo known service
British Virgin IslandsNo known service
Cayman IslandsNo known service
Falkland IslandsSee above
GibraltarSee above
MontserratNo known service
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno IslandsNo known service
St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan du CunhaSee above
South Georgia and South Sandwich IslandsNo known service
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and DhekeliaNo known service
The Turks and Caicos IslandsNo known service