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Dave's had a haircut and shave in recent years as it grows from awkward teenager to fully-fledged commissioner of new and original shows. And it's not just comedy these days but entertainment and even some knock-out live sport. Hit UKTV Original commissions include Taskmaster, Dave Gorman Modern Life is Goodish, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled and Crackanory, all laden with the biggest names in British comedy.

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Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

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Dave   19 (90%) 811 157

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the media.info link icon media.info Dave page.

Official site: See the dave.uktv.co.uk link icon Dave website.

From Wikipedia: The channel is available on cable, IPTV, Freeview and some satellite platforms. The channel took the name Dave in October 2007, but it had been on air under various identities and formats since October 1998. The channel was promoted as being an edgier alternative to UK Gold like that channel, the output was mainly comedy from the BBC with some shows produced inhouse. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about Dave on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: Dave is on multiplex COM5 in england flagscotland flagnorthernireland flagwales flag.

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Monday, 5 December 2011
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Crockit
11:34 AM
Solihull

I am having problems with Dave and any other channels on ARQA mux - sound is chopped off and on every second - please see my other comment I left today (but in the wrong forum, sorry...). Any answers please? Thank you.

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Crockit's 5 posts GB flag
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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picard
11:08 AM

same Here Crockit ARQA mux is giving choppy sound and break up of picture for last few days. Sutton Coldfield transmitter

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picard's 2 posts GB flag
Monday, 12 December 2011
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john kemp
6:49 PM

Hi, Been reading all the comments re DAVE. It is featured on the current advertising of FREESAT on tv as a channel that can be received FREE, without having to be a subscriber to SKY.
Some simple non technical easy to follow non jargon instructions would be most welcome.

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john kemp's 1 post FR flag
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:51 PM

Martin: Sorry, but no, UKTV has no plans to add channels to Freesat.

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Sunday, 5 February 2012
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Sara Knight
12:46 PM

Does Sky freesat have more free channels than others? and how does the Humax freeat box compare with sky? Also with the sky freesat box can you pause rewind record etc?

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Sara Knight's 1 post GB flag
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

1:28 PM

Sara Knight: Please see Compare Freesat and Freesat-from-Sky TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to compare the channels. You can't pause/play/record with fSfS (it costs £10 a month to do that), but you can with proper Freesat box.

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Friday, 24 February 2012
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Bernie
12:15 PM
Bristol

My postcode is BS30 9PZ and I believe I receive the best Freeview signal from the Mendip transmitter. I cleared all channels and re-scanned - seems OK but I am missing Dave which should be on channel 19. I have an old aerial but it has been working fine up until fairly recently. Is the only answer to install a new aerial?

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Adam B
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12:24 PM

Bernie:

The multiplex that transmits Dave is currently on low power until 28th March. A retune after this time will most likely restore Dave and some others, for example Sky News on 82.

Hope this helps,

Adam.

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