Five are reported to have lost the bidding war for the new slot on FreeView DTT. Channel 4 outbid them by paying £10million/year for the 18 hours a day slot. Five will now be launching the DTT five.2 on spare Top Up TV capacity (They invested heavily into TUTV last week.)
4 eill be putting More 4+1 onto DTT in the short term, and replacing it with new channel "C4US"** early next year.
** unofficial name for the new channel launching next year to showcase their American series. |