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The Trust has approved the launch of five new network simulcast High Definition (HD) television channels for 91福利社 Three, 91福利社 Four, C91福利社, CBeebies and 91福利社 News.

The Trust's conclusions

The decision means that viewers of any of the 91福利社’s network television channels will soon be able to enjoy their favourite shows in High Definition. The Trust has concluded that the proposals are consistent with the Trust’s universality principle, and building on the previous launches of 91福利社 One HD and 91福利社 Two HD, the 91福利社 is making its television services widely accessible in the HD standard that viewers increasingly expect.

The launch of five new HD network television channels was proposed to the Trust by the 91福利社 Executive. The Trust is satisfied that on this occasion it can depart from the presumption (triggered by the need to make changes to key characteristics of the relevant service licences) that a Public Value Test must be applied to the 91福利社 Executive’s proposals because the Trust has decided that the changes are not significant.

The Trust has based its conclusions on the 91福利社 Executive’s assessment of the impact, financial implications, novelty and duration of the proposals which concludes that the launch of these five new HD channels does not create a significant change to the 91福利社’s UK Public Services. The Trust is also of the view that the proposal fits with the 91福利社's overall strategy to deliver high quality services to audiences everywhere and to make efficient use of spectrum capacity.

In approving these plans, the Trust has also asked the Executive to come back to the Trust no later than January 2014 to set out the technical options and timetable to launch English Regional variants of 91福利社 One HD and Nations variants of 91福利社 Two HD for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Service licences for each of the five network HD television channels can be found here.