| 2000 1 January Six additional idents introduced on BBC2 27 March BBC GLR relaunched as BBC London Live 31 March UK Arena relaunched as UK Drama 3 April BBC Knowledge relaunched as a serious documentary channel 1 July All commercials now delivered in 16:9 widescreen; ITV presentation now in 16:9 24 July New idents on BBC Choice, all based on the previous 'hearts' ident 1 August ITN News Channel launched 15 September Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC1 2 October First edition of Breakfast on BBC1 and BBC News 24. All BBC News output is now in 16:9 widescreen 13 October Final edition of the Nine O'Clock News 15 October BBC1's Panorama moved to Sundays 16 October Ten O'Clock News begins on BBC1 November UK Play renamed Play UK 14 November BBC Parliament ceases transmitting on DAB (digital radio)
2001 18 January Channel 4's new entertainment channel, E4, launched at 8.15pm 22 January News at Ten reinstated on ITV 6 July New idents on BBC Choice 11 July OnDigital renamed ITV Digital 16 July Launch of a bi-hourly news service, 60 Seconds, on BBC Choice 11 August ITV renamed ITV1; launch of the ITV Sport Channel 2 September Launch of South East Today on BBC1 for viewers in Kent and East Sussex 7 September Launch of BBC Canada  1 October First edition of BBC London News, replacing Newsroom South East;
BBC London Live renamed BBC London
5 November Launch of BBC 2W, an evening opt-out service on BBC2 Wales digital 7 November BBC interactive services re-branded as BBCi; BBC News Interactive launched 20 November 19 November New idents introduced on BBC2 at 7.00am, the first new look since 1991. ITV2 also introduces new idents
2002 2 February Launch of BBC 5 Live Sports Extra at 2.30pm - the BBC's first digital radio-only service 11 February Launch of new channels CBBC and CBeebies, which replace the daytime output of BBC Choice and BBC Knowledge 2 March Launch of BBC4 at 7.00pm, replacing BBC Knowledge 11 March Launch of BBC 6 Music on digital radio at 7.00am 29 March BBC1 globe ident shown for the final time. New idents introduced at 9.00am featuring dancers 1 May ITV Digital ceases its pay television service on digital terrestrial television. E4 and Film 4 remain available to ex-subscribers until 24 May 11 May ITV Sport Channel closes 4 July Former ITV Digital licences awarded to a consortium led by the BBC and Crown Castle 16 August Launch of BBC 1Xtra on digital radio  16 September Channel 5 rebranded as 'five'; the channel drops its DOG
30 September ITN News Channel renamed ITV News Channel. Play UK closes
at midnight 28 October New idents and unified ITV1 branding introduced across England
and Wales; LWT and Carlton rebranded as ITV1 London, HTV rebranded as
ITV1 Wales and ITV1 West of England 30 October Official start of Freeview service on digital terrestrial. UK History begins 15 December BBC7 launched on digital radio at 8.00pm
2003 9 February Launch of BBC3 at 7.00pm, replacing BBC Choice 14 July New idents on ITV2 7 October Merger of Granada and Carlton approved by the government, paving the way for a single ITV company in England and Wales 15 November First Junior Eurovision Song Contest 8 December BBC News 24 relaunched (it had been planned for one week earlier)
2004 2 February ITV plc formed from the merger of Carlton and Granada. ITV News relaunches, and News at Ten moves to 10.30pm 8 March Prefix of UKTV channels changed from 'UK' to 'UKTV'  31 March Launch of Top Up TV subscription service on digital terrestrial
1 November Launch of ITV3 at 9.00pm; new idents for ITV1. Granada Plus
closes at approx 4.30pm. New idents for Channel 5 31 December Closure of BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham. Channel 4 launches new idents
2005 16 May New BBC weather graphics launched 27 May E4 available on Freeview 10 September New idents on BBC4 10 October Launch of More4 at 8.00pm 31 October Launch of Sky Three at 5.00pm, available on Freeview.
Sky Mix renamed Sky Two 1 November Launch of ITV4 at 6.00pm 23 December Closure of the ITV News Channel at 6.00pm
2006 16 January New ITV logo introduced; new idents on ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3 2 May New look for BBC News 15 May BBC HD high-definition channel begins on a trial basis 23 July FilmFour relaunched as Film4; available on Freeview 30 July Final regular edition of Top of the Pops 7 October New idents for BBC1 15 October Launch of Five Life at 8.00pm. Five US launches 24 hours later 16 December End of Open University programmes on BBC television
2007 27-28 January Final editions of Grandstand and Sunday Grandstand 18 February New BBC2 idents 3 September New look for CBBC 11 October Five reinstates its on-screen logo (DOG) 1 December Official launch of BBC HD channel on satellite and cable 10 December Channel 4 HD launched
2008 14 January News at Ten reinstated on ITV again 12 February BBC3 relaunched 11 March Launch of BBC Arabic television channel 20 March Final day of Class TV schools programmes on the CBBC channel 21 April Relaunch of BBC News; BBC News 24 renamed BBC News; BBC World renamed BBC World News 28 April Five Life renamed Fiver | 
