E4

"The decision to launch E4 on Freeview boiled down to Channel 4 forecasting an uplift in ratings and advertising revenues for Freeview, which it expects to exceed lost subscription revenues.

Andy Duncan, chief executive of Channel 4, added that taking E4 free-to-air was "key to our strategy of extending presence in multichannel" and "strengthening public service contribution".

Channel 4 will continue its existing carriage deal with Sky, but has notified Top Up TV it is withdrawing E4 from its package."

DO we know a launch time for the channel on Freeview?

I beleive it launches at 6am on friday, although programmes don't begin until 1.40pm.

So does that mean the scrambled E4 channel we see now on freeview will just become unscrambled on Friday morning or does it get a new freeview channel?

E4 - Fri 27 May

6:00 Big Brother 6 Auditions
7:00 Big Brother 6 Auditions
8:05 Big Brother 6 Auditions
9:15 Big Brother 6 Auditions
10:20 Big Brother 6 Auditions
11:25 Big Brother 6 Auditions
12:35 Big Brother 6 Auditions
13:40 Big Brother's Funniest Moments
14:45 Big Brother: The Top 20 Housemates
15:50 Big Brother: The Top 20 Housemates
17:00 T4: Friends
17:30 T4: Friends
17:55 Big Brother's Funniest Moments
19:00 Hollyoaks
19:30 Switched
20:00 T4: Friends
20:35 T4: Friends
21:00 Wife Swap
22:10 Big Brother Live
23:20 Johnny Vegas: 18 Stone of Idiot
0:20 Big Brother Live

E4 itself will be a on a new 24 hour stream, presumably on the ITV / C4 Mux.

It's not clear whether E4+1 will be a 24 hr stream - it may take the 18 hr slot on the Crown Castle mux C4 have obtained, or take the current slot E4 use to broadcast via Top Up TV from 4pm each day.

It is still not clear how the deal affects the Top Up TV channels on the C4 Mux.

Amazing. So much still unclear with less than a week to go!

i still dont get what E4 + 1 will offer i the long term.

Same channel, 14, but as you say, unscrambled from Friday morning.

Plus one, fairly obviously, gets a new number, 39 if memory serves.

Is this actually going to E4+1 or is becoming a 24hour stream for Big Brother?

Telewest are also adding E4 to their basic ('Starter') package from Friday.

when will e4+1 appear on channel 39? I have been doing lodds of retunes but still not got it.