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22/08/2000

TELEWEST SIGNS UP FOR BBC DIGITAL

TELEWEST Communications announced today that they have signed a deal with the BBC for the licence fee funded BBC digital channels.
The deal will see BBC's digital output carried on Telewest’s Active Digital service until the end of the BBC’s current charter in 2006.
The UK cable company Telewest’s Digital TV subscribers will have access to digital versions of BBC1 and BBC2, digital specific channels BBC Choice, BBC News 24, BBC Knowledge as well as the corporations radio channels. Telewest subscribers will also be able to access around 400 pages of BBC interactive information via the BBC's Digital Teletext service.
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