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Tuning in extra FREE channels: BBC, ITV, Ch4, E4, More4, Five, etc

  • 31-10-2005 7:53pm
    #1
    Charles Slane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭


    The BBC went free-to-air on the 10th of July 2003 and ITV on 1st of November 2005, so here's a handy thread for anyone who wants to add the free channels but doesn't know how.

    Channel 4, E4, More4 and Five have went FTA in the meantime.

    **Note to those savvy with how how to tune Skybox, there's a handy table of common channels created by Paddy C, below this post.

    We'll begin with the frequency (10773H 22000 5/6) that Five, BBC3 and BBC4 are broadcast on, and you can repeat the process using the frequency table below to add the other channels of your choice (ie ITV1, ITV2 BBC Radio etc.)


    To add channels to your "Other Channels" option, do the following -

    With your digibox turned on, press the "Services" button (near the top of the remote).

    Select number 4 (System Setup), and then 4 again ("Add Channels").

    In the appropriate fields enter the following (you move through the fields using the up and down arrow keys).


    In the Frequency field enter: 10.773,

    The next three fields are toggle fields, i.e. using the left and right arrows will change the value.

    Toggle Polarisation to : H
    Toggle Symbol Rate to: 22000
    Toggle FEC to : 5/6

    Then select the last button - Find Channels.

    After a few seconds the channels should appear. The channels on this frequency should be - BBC One London, BBC Two England, BBC News 24, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC Three, BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Cymru.

    Use the Yellow button to place a tick beside each one you wish to store and when you've finished ticking press "Select". These channels will now be stored.

    You can view them by pressing the "Services" button, then 7 "Other Channels" (Other Channels is option 9 on Sky+ and Sky+ HD), use the arrow keys to move to the channel you want and press "Select".



    To add the channels below, repeat the procedure using the details provided. As suggested by Sceptre, I'd just like to make people aware that sometimes when too many channels are stored in "Other Channels" they can mysteriously all disappear ! This seems to be a bug in Sky's software that they've never bothered to fix. Different people seem to recommend different numbers of Other Channels to store, but I've never had a problem with anything up to 30. If they are deleted, don't panic - you just have to go through the hassle of storing them again. It may be best not to try to store all the BBC and ITV variations, but just the ones that you're particularly interested in.


    MODEDIT [byte]
    UPDATED: 26 January 2009.

    With thanks to DMC for the lists (AGAIN)! :)



    ITV Frequencies.

    10.758 V 22.0 5/6

    ITV 1 London
    ITV 2
    CITV (0700-1900)
    ITV 4
    Men & Motors
    ITV 1 Granada
    ITV 1 Anglia North
    ITV 1 Central West


    10832 H 22.0 5/6

    ITV 4 +1
    ITV 1 Thames Valley North
    ITV 1 Central East
    ITV 1 Wales
    ITV 1 West
    ITV 1 Westcountry South
    ITV 1 Border England


    10891 H 22.0 5/6

    ITV 1 Border Scotland
    ITV 1 Tyne Tees North
    ITV 1 Meridian South
    ITV 1 Meridian South East
    ITV 1 Anglia South
    ITV 1 Yorkshire West
    ITV 2 +1


    10906 V 22.0 5/6

    Channel TV
    STV North
    STV West
    STV East
    Ulster TV
    ITV 3
    ITV 3 +1 (1900-0700)

    Note ITV now uses 1 less transponder than it used to (10.714).

    BBC Frequencies

    10.773, H, 22.0, 5/6

    BBC One London
    BBC Two England
    BBC Four (1900-0600)
    CBBC (0600-1900)
    CBeebies UK (0600-1900)
    BBC Three (1900-0600)
    BBC One Northern Ireland
    Five (aka Channel 5)

    10788 V 22.0 5/6

    BBC One West Midlands
    BBC One North West
    BBC One East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
    BBC One Yorkshire & North Midlands
    BBC One East Midlands
    BBC One East


    10803 H 22.0 5/6

    BBC One Wales
    BBC Two Wales
    BBC One Scotland
    BBC Two Scotland
    BBC Two Northern Ireland
    BBC Radio 5 Live
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra


    10818 V 22.0 5/6

    BBC One West
    BBC One South East
    BBC One South
    BBC One South West
    BBC One North East & Cumbria
    BBC One Oxford


    10847 V 22.0 5/6

    BBC One Cambridge
    BBC One Channel Islands
    BBC HD UK

    11954 H 27.5 2/3

    BBC News
    BBC Parliament
    BBC Alba
    BBCi Stream 4 0
    BBCi Stream 4 1
    BBC Radio 1
    BBC Radio 2
    BBC Radio 3
    BBC Radio 4 DAB
    BBC Radio 4 LW
    BBC Radio Scotland AM
    BBC Radio Wales FM
    BBC Radio Ulster
    BBC Asian Network
    BBC World Service UK
    BBC Radio Cymru
    BBC 1Xtra
    BBC 6 Music
    BBC Radio 7
    BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
    BBC London 94.9 FM

    12441 V 27.5 2/3

    BBC Stream 3 0
    BBC Stream 3 1
    BBC Stream 3 2
    BBC Stream 3 3
    BBC Stream 3 4
    BBC Stream 3 5
    BBC Stream 3 6


    Happy viewing !!! :):)


Comments

  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Additional Sky Digibox Channels Points
    • There is no such thing as a FTA (Free To Air) card. FTA channels can be received free without any card. If you cancel Sky PayTV you will still get all the free channels. Unlike Cable TV, you do own the set box from day1.
    • A "Freesat from Sky" card = FTV (Free To View) card is a once off £21. It is only supplied by Sky to a UK/N.I. postcode address. It only adds C4, Five, Five Live and Five US and Sky3. The FTV card ONLY works in a Sky box unless you are very expert. A cancelled UK subscription card (not a cancelled card) works as a FTV card.
    • An Expired Irish card should work for Sky3, but hides all the ITV and most of the BBC.
    • You will get all BBC & ITV & C4. There are 200+ channels & 70+ radio. About 45 decent TV and 40 decent radio.
    • NO Irish TV. Use an Aerial for them.

    To get UK Program guide with missing UK free Channels

    Go Sky News.
    Press Interactive.
    Wait till it loads
    Pull out card and DO NOT REINSERT ANYTHING.
    Press backup.
    Browse channels. This is what you have for free.

    Re-insert card to get back Pay TV.
    Alternatively try unpluging box at mains and reconnecting without viewing card.
    C4 & Five is missing from EPG without FTV card (see Other Channels Tuning, they do work) but More4 and E4 are on EPG.
    This also shows what you would get without a subscription.
    It's worth setting up Favorites in Setup and pressing Blue button after Program Guide to lose all the channels you don't get free.


  • #3
    Rick_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Rick_


    The following channels are now all available via satellite FTA (Free To Air), meaning no card is required, just tune it in and you can watch away. (The many UK regional variations are also available and are found generally on the same frequencies as the Irish versions).

    Channel Name | Frequency | Polarisation | Symbol Rate | F.E.C.
    -
    BBC ONE NI | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    BBC TWO NI | 10.803 | H | 22000 | 2/3
    BBC THREE | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    BBC FOUR | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    BBC HD | 10.847 | H | 22000 | 5.6
    -
    UTV | 10.906 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 2 | 10.758 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 2+1 |10.891 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 3 | 10.906 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 3+1 | 10.906 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 4 | 10.758 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV 4+1 | 10.832 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    ITV HD (see * below)| 11.428 | H | 27500 | 2/3
    -
    Channel 4 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    Channel 4 +1 | 10.729 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    Channel 4 HD (see below)| 11.798 | H | 29500 | 3/4
    E4 | 10.729 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    E4 +1 | 10.729 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    More 4 | 10.729 | V | 22000 | 5/6
    More 4 +1 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    Film 4 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    Film 4 +1 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    -
    FIVE | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    FIVE USA (see below) | 10.964 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    FIVE USA +1 (see below)| 10.964 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    FIVER (see below| 10.964 | H | 22000 | 5/6
    FIVER +1(see below) | 10.964 | H | 22000 | 5/6


    Channels in bold cannot currently be viewed FTA and require a subscription or FTV viewing card, but there is a strong chance that they will become FTA in the future, when suitable space is found on the Astra 2D transponder. Their frequencies will almost certainly change so if and when they do become available for FTA viewing, their details can easily be amended on the table for all to easily find and the bold status will be removed so you will know when the frequency provided is for a working FTA version of the channel. :)

    The FTV channels are listed here anyway for reference and also for people who are using a CAM and FTV card to watch so they can tune them in also. Note that FIVE USA and FIVER cannot be viewed on an Irish Sky card and will only work on a UK subscription or FTV card. :)

    * For most STB's, ITV HD requires you to either tune in another channel and edit its details, (either on the STB itself or via a PC), in order to view or you can download a channel list for your STB, (again, depending on the STB's manufacturer), and load it this way by connecting your STB to your PC.

    ITV HD is currently an interactive application broadcast on Eurobird 28.5, but may launch at some point in the future as a full channel that can be tuned in normally like the rest of the channels on the list. This will only happen when ITV have enough content.


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