BBC Four is a television channel developed and owned by BBC. The program often shows documentaries and arts which often have a much smaller audience than BBC One and BBC Two. It shows programs between 7pm and 4am every day timeshared along with CBeebies.
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Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | Nationwide. Also widely available in Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands and United States. |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC |
Sister channels | BBC One BBC Two BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies |
History | |
Launched | 2 March 2002 |
Replaced | BBC Knowledge |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview (UK) | Channel 9 (Eng, Wales, NI) Channel 24 (Scot) Channel 106 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
BBC iPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
Horizon Go | Watch live (Ireland only) Watch live (Switzerland only) |
A high definition of the channel, BBC Four HD was launched on 10 December 2013 alongside the sister channels BBC Three HD, BBC News HD, CBBC HD, and CBeebies HD.

References
change- BBC One witch BBC TG24 Closed in Wednesday 18 October 2023
- BBC Radio 2 in 2024 Has UKTV Standby BBC UKTV
- ITV Restarts Tee and Mo on CBeebies at 06:56:59pm in Dave is no longer In the UK in 2020.
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