Sky TV rival offers huge boost for UK homes with | Tech News

Sky should be a very fashionable means for Brits to watch stay TV, but when the invoice is starting to harm on this paid TV service you would possibly wish to think about switching to a cheaper various. One of these is Freely, the free to watch TV service, which has simply introduced a huge boost for viewers with 16 new streamed channels coming to the platform “later this year”.

These embody two ITV channels, The Chase and Saturday Night Every Night, plus three from Channel 4, that are 4Reality, 4Homes and 4 Life.

Meanwhile, Channel 5 will present 11 new stay channels to stream: 5 GPs Behind Closed Doors, 5 Bargain Loving Brits, 5 The Yorkshire Vet, 5 History, 5 Crime, Milkshake!, 5 Police Interceptors, 5 Cops, 5 Trucking Hell, 5 A&E and 5 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly.

“We’re excited to bolster Freely’s offering with eleven new live channels, including five that will be exclusive to the platform and 5,” said 5’s VP Distribution Kiaran Saunders.

Akhila Khanna, ITV Director of Distribution said ITV was proud to be part of Freely, while Grace Boswood, Director of Technology & Distribution, Channel 4 said Freely was “the only place to access our new channels at launch.”

“Freely continues to represent brilliant collaboration by public service media,” she said.

A Freely spokesperson could not confirm to Express.co.uk when these channels will be launched on Freely, only that they will go live later in 2025.

Freely is a service built into some modern smart TVs from brands such as Hisense, Bush, Toshiba, Panasonic, Sharp, TCL, Amazon and Metz. All you need to do is purchase one of the televisions and you get full, free access to Freely, which streams content over your home Wi-Fi connection.

While buying a new TV is of course an expense, some screens are available for under £200, which may end up a lot cheaper than the annual Sky TV bill. You can search through a list of Freely TVs here.

Freely is owned by Everyone TV, the firm that also owns Freeview. While Freeview was accessed via traditional wired and aerial TV services, Freely is the modern version that utilities streaming over a wireless network. You get access to all familiar channels such as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV 1, Channel 4, Channel 5, Film4, E4, ITV2, and plenty of others.

There might be 55 stay streamed Freely TV channels in complete together with the 16 new ones introduced. As effectively as this, Freely mentioned clients even have entry to more than 70,000 hours of on demand content material.

Freely additionally introduced that free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels from the VIDAA platform might be put stay on the Freely TV information on Hisense and Toshiba Freely TVs earlier than the tip of April.

This offers these TV homeowners entry to 80 channels resembling Sony ONE, CNN and Banijay.