In the past week I emailed Britbox (again) asking about release on YouView, the response:
"Thank you for contacting Britbox! We plan on releasing Youview within the first few months of this year! We're happy to email you once support for YouView becomes available unless you prefer that we didn't."
So clearly it was never 'planned' to have BB on YouView by Christmas 2019, then... <annoyed>
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This is a press release dated February 28th:
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/britbox/press-releases/britbox-now-available-amazon-fire-tv
which includes:
"...BritBox will be adding support for YouView and other Freeview Play Smart TVs in the next few months..."
(The main BritBox website continues to say "Coming soon on YouView".)
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/itv-lower-earnings-ad-revenues-2019-itv-studios-growth-1203524624/
which includes:
"...BritBox U.K. becoming available on YouView and all Freeview Play devices in Q2..."
Which surely means it's not going to happen before April?