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BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital TV (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK.
History
BBC Four is the successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge. It began broadcasting on March 2 2002 in a simulcast with BBC TWO.
Programming
The channel broadcasts a mixture of art and science-related documentaries, archive drama (including many rare black and white programmes), and non-English language films.
On weekdays the channel shows a 30 minute global news programme called The World, simulcast with and produced by BBC World.
Broadcast method
On the digital terrestrial platform (aka Freeview) BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed 10 Megabit stream in Multiplex 1 that shares its bandwidth with the CBeebies channel.
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