More4 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation. It was launched in 2005. Despite the advertising communication that it would, the latter of, be free-to-air on satellite television, More4 was not free-to-air on Sky and was encrypted under Sky's NDS until 2008 when it became free-to-air and no longer need to have a package to the encrypted under NDS. It joined the BBC's and ITV's new satelite platform, Freesat, on the same day (6 May 2008).