The channel was available to subscribers of the Telewest TV Drive cable service and was also broadcast as a low-power digital terrestrial (DVB-T) channel from London's Crystal Palace Transmitter as part of a terrestrial HDTV trial involving 450 homes.
High definition broadcasts from ITV plc launched exclusively on Freesat,[REF] the new digital satellite service from the BBC and ITV on 7 June 2008, just in time for the start of UEFA Euro 2008.