After 25 years in service, all the BBC SD channels on Sky / Freesat were closed down forever on Monday 8th January 2024, marking the beginning of the end of SD Services on Satellite in the UK & Ireland.

It's pretty clear that this is the beginning of the end, as ITV also followed suit and closed the SD versions of ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe and some regional SD variants of ITV1, STV and UTV the following day. I'd imagine ITV2 SD and channels of other services (e.g. Channel 4 / Sky) will soon follow suit in the future.

This video will show me channel surfing through all the now defunct BBC SD channels with the upgrade message that will be displayed until March 2024, as well as the ITV SD channels that closed the following day. Also, I surf through the BBC Radio channels (checking if they still work but my box is HD capable so a bit of a pointless decision really) and look through the Red Button Service (was checking to see if it would still work and it does, but looks extremely out of date):

Unfortunately, I was not able to capture the actual BBC SD closedowns as this was scheduled to happen at 6am (which I set my recorder for), but it didn't take place until 10:54am. If you want to see the actual closedowns, [BlueFrogTV] has flawlessly captured each closedown on the channels that were on air at the time:

BBC One:    • The exact moment BBC One SD closed on...  
BBC Two / News / Parliament (A 3way simulcast):    • The exact moment BBC Two/News SD clos...  
CBBC:    • The exact moment CBBC SD closed on sa...  
CBeebies:    • The exact moment CBeebies SD closed o...  

Also Continuity from the morning of closure for BBC Two SD from SuperLegendary:    • BBC Two SD Continuity & Shutdown  Mo...  

Final Continuity link on BBC One Nightlight from Ivan O Sullivan:    • Last Continuity On BBC One SD (Nightl...  

BBC Three, Four, Scotland and Alba were not on air anyway at the time of closure and as of the upload date of this video, no one has yet uploaded BBC RB 1's closure

I am however in the process of recording continuity from the "proposed" final day (Sunday 7th January) of each SD channel (and the actual SD closedowns of BBC Scotland, Alba, Three & Four) as well as continuity from the final evening of the SD versions of ITV3, ITV4 and ITVBe, which will be uploaded over the coming months.

Special Thanks to [BlueFrogTV], SuperLegendary and Ivan O Sullivan for managing to capture some the actual BBC SD closedowns and the surrounding continuity despite the confusion in the actual time given in articles and from Sky themselves.

UPDATE MARCH 2024: The BBC SD channels were completely wiped from Sky SD boxes on 26th March 2024. Around the same time, I have discovered that Sky will be closing their SD Cinema and Sport channels in May 2024, then switching over their SD entertainment channels to DVBS2 by August 2024. No news yet on the remainder of the ITV SD channels or other major broadcasters.