TV Catchup forced to drop ITV, C4, C5 channels

ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have won a high court ruling forcing controversial London-based website TVCatchUp to stop streaming more than 20 of their services.

Under the ruling TVCatchUp, which uses the strapline "never miss a show again", has been told it cannot stream the main ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 networks on its mobile TV service.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/11/itv-channel-4-channel-5-tvcatchup

When it's this happening? The other day (on the channel list) when you hovered over a programme to watch it said "watch now on C4's website). Today did the same thing and "it just says watch now" i.e. watch on TVCatchup.

I must admit, tv catchup seems now to be a bbc only service.

Very disappointing.

^And that's redundant, as all the BBC channels can be streamed on bbc.co.uk anyway.

Is there an alternative to tv catchup effectively showing free view online?

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all have live streams of all their channels on their websites.

Jas84

I'm sure when I 1st started on tvcatchup it was effectively all the channels on freeview; now it's next to nothing.