Everyone TV was formed on 13 April 2005 as SwitchCo,[2] adopting the name Digital UK five months later.

[4][5] Everyone TV leads development of the Freeview Play product specification which is based on open standards, working with manufacturers and industry bodies.

[10] In February 2024, a new joint venture streaming platform named Freely was confirmed to be launching in Q2 2024.

Before switchover began, around one quarter of the UK public could not receive Freeview, because the digital signal was broadcast at low power in order not to interfere with analogue television.

[citation needed] Extending Freeview involved re-engineering work at 1,150 transmitter sites across the country between 2008 and 2012.