{"id":369396,"date":"2025-08-24T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369396\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:07:20","slug":"your-freeview-tv-is-changing-act-now-or-miss-out-on-a-major-channel-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369396\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Freeview TV is changing &#8211; act now or miss out on a major channel shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freeview is shaking things up with a swathe of channel changes coming to UK homes &#8211; retune your screen now.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Freeview-update.jpg\" alt=\"Freeview TV \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Freeview TV (Image: FREEVIEW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It&#8217;s been a little while since Freeview made any major updates to its TV channels, but that&#8217;s just changed. The popular telly platform has just confirmed a major shake-up which includes a number of channels launching, switching positions and some shutting their doors for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Freeview confirmed in a blog post that &#8220;on 20th August 2025, some broadcasters are making changes to their channels. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">So what&#8217;s new? Firstly, there are the new things to watch which include That\u2019s Oldies on channel 75, Hobbycraft TV on channel 97 and Pop Max on channel 212.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Then there are the services that are moving and changing name. That\u2019s Melody was on channel 75 but is now available via channel 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Names that are changing include That\u2019s Summer which is now called That\u2019s Rock MCR, That\u2019s Dance MCR becomes That\u2019s Oldies MCR and CNA turns into CNA Originals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Lastly, there are those annoying closures. Four channels, including That\u2019s Dance, Pop+1, Moochi, and Shots!, are being switched off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Freeview is now urging its users to check their settings and perform a retune if they don&#8217;t see the changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;You will need to retune to update your TV and keep your channels and TV Guide up to date,&#8221; the TV platform said in a post on its blog page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Channels are constantly evolving on Freeview with individual channels making the decision to move, add or remove channels. Freeview continues to ensure that audiences can enjoy a rich and varied content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Freeview has issued advice on how to retune devices, and here are the steps every user needs to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u2022 Press menu on your box or TV remote control<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u2022 Select \u2018set-up\u2019, \u2018installation\u2019, \u2018update\u2019 or a similar option. If you\u2019re asked for a password, the default code is \u20181234\u2019 or \u20180000\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u2022 Select \u2018first-time installation\u2019 (sometimes called \u2018factory reset\u2019, \u2018full retune\u2019 or \u2018default settings\u2019).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Press \u2018OK\u2019 if your equipment asks if it&#8217;s OK to delete existing channels and then your retune should start automatically. If you\u2019re prompted to, save the channels that are found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freeview is shaking things up with a swathe of channel changes coming to UK homes &#8211; retune your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,965,129243,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-freeview","10":"tag-national-arts-centre","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082955990860845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}