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BBC Radio 4

  • 12-09-2007 1:28pm
    #1
    fathersymes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    is it possible to get BBC radio4 on any freeview boxes in Ireland.

    I have a spare NTL box which was left behind by the previous residents and was thinking of giving it to a friend who wants radio4. They have NTL but I think only the basic package. I tested the box on my TV and can get radio4.


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  • #2
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    i think you have answered your own question? The answer is yes, all ntl boxes that are not able to recieve tv will still be able to recieve the radio stations on a live ntl feed into a house. You should be able also to recieve the 5 or 6 irish tv channels as well including setanta sports ireland. The box may need to software update 1st.


  • #3
    fathersymes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭fathersymes


    Thanks, so what you are saying is that as long as someone has a basic subscription to NTL they can get BBC radio if they have a NTL box.

    I'm asking because NTL told me BBC radio is only part of the digital package.
    However seeing I have a spare box this will allow BBC radio without an extra payment to NTL?


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,506 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    If they have basic (analogue) ntl: then they already have a selection of radio stations available on analogue FM without using a set top box at all, including Radio 4. Just connect up your FM radio aerial socket to the radio connector on the wall socket (I'm assuming you have one, I do on mine). The analogue FM radio frequencies are somewhere on the ntl: website, or at least they were the last time I looked.


  • #5
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    yes, it will work on a basic live ntl input. Sound is much better from the digital box than via a fm radio reciever. Sometimes i find on a fm reciever radio one (BBC) comes and goes and it is only in mono (1 channel).


  • #6
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    IIRC its on 96.3 MHz (or at least it was when I was working in Dublin -admitidely over 10 years ago) on cable (in many places the cable was so leaky that one didnt need to connect the radio to the cable to hear it. In fact sometimes one could pick it up out in the street on a walkman).

    In a few parts of Dublin* one can also get it direct from the Divis transmitter on 96.0 MHz

    Its also available on longwave (remember that) on 198 KHz as well as satelite and the interweb

    *generally the extreme South (because of the hills) and North of the city


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