Talksport gone from channel 858?

Charlie

Does anybody know when and why talksport was taken off channel 858 ? Has it been moved to another channel, or just completley taken off the epg? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Greenman

charlie mchugh wrote:

Does anybody know when and why talksport was taken off channel 858 ? Has it been moved to another channel, or just completley taken off the epg? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Were you subscribed to it???

Charlie

Greenman wrote:

Were you subscribed to it???

Subscribed? It's a radio station. They used to up until recently advertise that they were on sky digital channel 858, and on the lyngsat website it stills says that talksport is on astra/eurobird, however when I go to 858 it says "channel unavailable"

Charles Slane

Talksport has always only been available with a UK Sky subscription (not sure what level). It's not even available on a UK FTV card.

It's never been available on an Irish subscription.

Greenman

charlie mchugh wrote:

Subscribed? It's a radio station. They used to up until recently advertise that they were on sky digital channel 858, and on the lyngsat website it stills says that talksport is on astra/eurobird, however when I go to 858 it says "channel unavailable"

For some reason you had to be subbed to them!!! They are on the net and AM radio but I'm sure you know that.
I wish they were FTA as I like the through the night shows!!!
I'm going to to scan to see if they are still transmitting. Not sure if they are gone off the FTV card???
Any help to you??

PS Just did a search, its still transmitting but still encrypted.

Mossy Monk

Greenman wrote:

Not sure if they are gone off the FTV card???

they were never available to me FTV

edit: forgot to put in the word never :eek: the difference a word makes :eek:

Charlie

Greenman wrote:

For some reason you had to be subbed to them!!! They are on the net and AM radio but I'm sure you know that.
I wish they were FTA as I like the through the night shows!!!
I'm going to to scan to see if they are still transmitting. Not sure if they are gone off the FTV card???
Any help to you??

PS Just did a search, its still transmitting but still encrypted.

Yeah cheers mate. Seems odd that a radio station would be encrypted. Maybe its that there is no real benfit to them broadcasting here as alot of their adds are for services such as banking only available to people in the u.k. Still that explanation is unlikely

Charles Slane

Mossy Monk wrote:

they were available to me FTV

Was it an ex-sub card? I've never been able to get Talksport with an FTV card (having experienced the use of 5 of them).

Charles Slane

charlie mchugh wrote:

Seems odd that a radio station would be encrypted.

The speculation in the early days was that it was due to rights issues. Now with 5Live etc freely available, it does seem odd. But who knows how long their encryption deal is for ....

L1011

Additionally, I doubt its new owners - UTV - are great fans of encryption, to be honest.