The BBC and BSkyB successor to the defunct ITV Digital will be called Freeview, it was announced today.

The Football League today welcomed the decision to award the three digital television licences made available by the collapse of ITV Digital to the BBC and Sky, but will still have to fight in the courts for the money owed to the 72 Nationwide clubs.

The BBC has won the three vacant digital terrestrial television licences left after the collapse of troubled broadcaster ITV Digital, the Independent Television Commission announced today.