Freeview

On Wednesday, the station’s news television bulletins were geo-blocked in Northern Ireland on Freeview channel 54, Sky, RTÉ Player and the RTÉ News website.

However, only a limited list of EPGs are currently regulated by Ofcom - Freeview, Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media, and YouView.

Unusually, that means British viewers can watch the Oscars on Freeview and Freesat.

After the completion of the digital switchover in Wales on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became available on Freeview and S4C ceased airing English-language programmes.

A government spokesman says: "We are committed to supporting disabled people and established BSL interpretation at the No10 Covid press conferences via the BBC News channel and iPlayer, available on all TV packages as part of Freeview."