The free-to-air, ITV and BBC-backed satellite service Freesat has announced it will launch a YouTube service.
Access to YouTube will be available from March through Freesat's £279 internet-enabled set-top box ('Freetime').
Users will navigate the site with their smartphone.
Tte service added in a press release that it had now sold three million boxes, and claimed more new households in the third quarter of 2012 than Sky and BT Vision combined (55,000).
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YouTube is already available on UK TVs via a wide array of devices, including the Apple TV, Xbox and PS3. But Freesat said the move would make YouTube viewable to a wider audience than ever.