ITV have announced that they will be closing three more SD channels on Sky and Freesat.

The channels will be only available in HD from January 2024.

ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe in SD will be closed on the 9th January 2024.

ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe will only be available in HD from the 9th January 2024.

(No mention of ITV2 SD, or the +1 SD services in the ITV press release)

So if you have an old grey Sky or Sky+ digibox, you will lose access to these channels on the 9th January 2024.

These three ITV channel closures are in addition to the four ITV1 SD regions that are closing: Border Scotland, Channel, UTV (Northern Ireland) and ITV1 Wales SD.

If you live outside the UK, and you are watching these channels on a HD box in SD as you are unable to receive the HD signals, then you will need to either have your satellite dish system realigned, or have a larger satellite dish installed.

In my service area a 125x135cm satellite dish has been the recommended size of satellite dish since 2012, and will receive these HD signals in all but the heaviest of rains.

The closure of these SD ITV channels is one day after the BBC closes its SD channels.