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'''Welcome to the British TV channels task force!''' Formerly the WikiProject British TV channels, the project became a task force under the new [[Wikipedia:WikiProject British television|WikiProject British television]] on 29 December 2011. Our aim is to create [[WP:GA|good articles]] for all [[:Category:Television channels in the United Kingdom|British TV Channels]].

If you'd like to join us, please add your username to the '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject British TV/Membership|membership]]''' page.

Adding {{[[User:Tghe-retford/Userboxes/User WikiProject British TV channels|User:Tghe-retford/Userboxes/User WikiProject British TV channels]]}} to your userpage will create this userbox:{{User:Tghe-retford/Userboxes/User WikiProject British TV channels}}
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==Hierarchy definition==
Purely British TV channels should be included in [[:Category:Television channels in the United Kingdom]].

Where the UK just broadcasts a foreign network as it is broadcast in that country (eg [[Fox News]] or [[TV5]] that article should be included in [[:Category:Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom]]

=== Related [[Wikipedia:Portal|portals]] ===
*[[Portal:BBC|BBC Portal]]

==Templates==
=== Project banner ===
The '''{{tl|WikiProject British TV channels}}''' project banner template should be added (not [[Wikipedia:Substitution|subst:ed]]) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project.  While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner.
{{WikiProject Television|category=no|class=|importance=|british-television=yes|british-television-importance=}}
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=== Infoboxes ===
{{Infobox television channel
| name              = BBC One
| logo_size         = 200px
| logo              = Gnome-globe.svg
| logo_alt          = BBC One logo since 2002
| launch_date       = [[2 November]] [[1936]]
| closed_date       =
| owner             = [[BBC]]
| former_names      = The BBC Television Service (until April 1964)
| replaced          = 
| sister_channels   = 
| timeshift_service = 
| website           = [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone]
| terr_serv_1       = [[Analogue television in the United Kingdom|UK analogue]]
| terr_chan_1       = ''Usually Channel 1''
| terr_serv_2       = [[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]]
| terr_chan_2       = Channel 1
| sat_serv_1        = [[Sky Digital (UK)|Sky Digital]]
| sat_chan_1        = Channel 101
| sat_serv_2        = [[Sky Digital (UK)|Sky Digital]] ([[Republic of Ireland|ROI]])
| sat_chan_2        = Channel 169
| sat_serv_3        = [[Freesat|Freesat]]
| sat_chan_3        = Channel 101
| cable_serv_1      = [[Virgin Media]]
| cable_chan_1      = Channel 101
| cable_serv_2      = [[NTL Ireland]]
| cable_chan_2      = Channel 105 
}}
A new infobox for British and Irish TV channels has been designed.

Instructions for use are at [[Template talk:Infobox television channel]]

A list of pages that include this template can be found at [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox television channel]]
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=== Stubs ===
Articles that are TV channels that are stubs should be tagged with the template {{tl|UK-tv-channel-stub}} which looks like

{{UK-tv-channel-stub}}

This will add these channels to [[:Category:United Kingdom television channel stubs]]

==Tools==	
:''Main tool page: [[tools:~dispenser/view/Tools|toolserver.org]]''	
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks]] - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references	
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]] - Edit and repair external links	
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver]] - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer|Peer reviewer]] - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

==Resources==
#[http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/monthly-viewing-summary/ Barb Audience share report ]
#[https://www.freeview.co.uk/app/uploads/2016/03/Freeview-Channel-Guide-25-Feb-20161.pdf DTT channel line-up] ([[Freeview (UK)|Freeview]]/[[BT Vision]]/[[Top Up TV]])
#[http://www.freesat.co.uk/channels Freesat channel line-up]
#[http://tv.sky.com/tv-guide/ Sky channel line-up]
#[https://my.virginmedia.com/content/dam/virgoBrowse/docs/VirginMediaTVChannelGuide.pdf Virgin TV channel line-up]
#[http://thetvroom.com/index/index.html The TV Room: channel idents]
#[http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/ TV ARK: channel idents]
#[http://www.tvguide.co.uk/ UK TV listings]

==External watchlist==
*[http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+British+TV+channels Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject British TV channels]

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