BBC Four

"BBC4" redirects here. For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 4. For its sister station, see BBC Radio 4 Extra.

BBC Four is a television channel developed and owned by BBC. The programme often shows documentaries and arts which often have a much smaller audience than BBC One and BBC Two. It shows programmes between 7 pm and 4 am every day timeshared along with CBeebies.

BBC Four

Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Nationwide, also widely available in Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands and United States.
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	BBC
Sister channels	BBC One BBC Two BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies
History
Launched	2 March 2002; 23 years ago (2002-03-02)
Replaced	BBC Knowledge BBC Three (Original)
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview (UK)	Channel 9 (Eng, Wales, NI) Channel 24 (Scot) Channel 106 (HD)
Streaming media
BBC iPlayer	Watch live (UK only)
TVPlayer	Watch live (UK only)
Horizon Go	Watch live (Ireland only) Watch live (Switzerland only)

A high definition of the channel, BBC Four HD was launched on 10 December 2013 alongside the sister channels BBC Three HD, BBC News HD, CBBC HD, and CBeebies HD.

Logo used 2002 to 2021