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| Features: History of DTT • ONdigital line-up • Freeview launch line-up • Former channels • Lord of the Mux |
| Former Freeview channels |
| Channel | Launched | Removed | |
| ABC1 | 27 September 2004 | 25 September 2007 | Scrapped |
| Big Brother 6 (channel 705) | 27 May 2005 | 12 August 2005 | No longer required |
| Big Brother 7 (channel 305) | 18 May 2006 | 17 July 2006 | Replaced by Film4 |
| Film4+1 | 16 November 2006 | 20 August 2007 | Replaced by Channel 4+1 |
| Five Life | 15 October 2006 | 27 April 2008 | Scrapped, replaced by Fiver |
| FTN | 15 January 2003 | 30 September 2007 | Replaced by Virgin 1 |
| ITV News Channel | Part of original Freeview line-up | 23 December 2005 | Scrapped, replaced by ITV4 and CITV |
| ITV Play | 19 April 2006 | 5 March 2007 | Pulled off-air, scrapped |
| The Jewellery Channel | 29 November 2007 | 30 May 2008 | Replaced by Gems TV |
| Men & Motors | 2 May 2005 | 11 April 2006 | Replaced by ITV Play |
| More4+1 | 24 December 2005 | 18 May 2006 | Replaced by Big Brother 7 (channel 305) |
| Price Drop TV | 2 December 2003 | 5 January 2009 | Replaced by Discovery Quest |
| Sky Travel | Part of original Freeview line-up | 31 October 2005 | Replaced by Sky Three |
| The Hits | Part of original Freeview line-up | 15 August 2008 | Replaced by 4Music |
| Thomas Cook TV | 17 April 2007 | 31 August 2007 | Shortest-lived Freeview channel |
| Top Up TV Promo (2007) | 8 February 2007 | 1 March 2007 | Shortest-lived Freeview service |
| Top Up TV Promo (2004) | 13 February 2004 | 31 March 2004 | Replaced by Top Up TV channels |
| Top Up TV Sampler | 6 December 2004 | c.29 March 2005 | |
| UKTV Bright Ideas | 15 January 2003 | 14 October 2007 | Scrapped, replaced by Dave |
| Former subscription channels (post-ONdigital) |
| Channel | Launched | Removed | |
| Bloomberg | 31 March 2004 | 5 September 2006 | |
| Boomerang | 31 March 2004 | 12 September 2006 | |
| Cartoon Network | 31 March 2004 | 14 February 2007 | |
| Discovery | 31 March 2004 | 7 September 2006 | |
| Discovery Real Time | 31 March 2004 | 5 February 2007 | |
| Eurosport | 31 May 2005 | 21 October 2008 | |
| TCM | 31 March 2004 | 16 April 2007 | Replaced by Thomas Cook TV |
| Toonami | 10 September 2005 | 3 September 2006 | |
| UKTV Food | 31 March 2004 | 26 September 2006 | |
| UKTV Gold | 31 March 2004 | 7 October 2008 | Scrapped, replaced by GOLD (on DTT) and Watch |
| Xtraview | April 2005 | 31 August 2005 | Scrapped |
| Former radio stations |
| Channel | Launched | Removed | |
| 3C | 22 September 2004 | 27 March 2007 | Scrapped, replaced by Clyde 1 |
| Clyde 1 | 27 March 2007 | 30 October 2008 | Withdrawn |
| Jazz FM | Part of original Freeview line-up | 27 May 2005 | Replaced by Smooth Radio |
| Mojo | 15 September 2003 | 30 November 2008 | Scrapped |
| Oneword | Part of original Freeview line-up | 14 January 2007 | Scrapped |
| Virgin Radio | 18 July 2006 | 29 September 2008 | Replaced by Absolute Radio |
| Former text services |
| Channel | Launched | Removed | |
| Teletext on 4 | 16 December 2003 | 30 October 2008 | Replaced by 1-2-1 Dating on EPG (still available via Channel 4) |
| TVTV Digital | 2 August 2006 | 30 October 2008 | Withdrawn from EPG |
| YooPlay (F2P Games) | 23 May 2003 | 18 July 2006 | Capacity used by Virgin Radio and TVTV Digital |
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