Sky News, Pick TV and Challenge TV to launch on Freesat.

mjsmyth

I know that the above channels as FTA, but if you only have a Freesat box, it can be a pain to flip between FTA and Freesat modes depending on your receiver.

Anyway, according to this post on Digital Spy, they are due to join next week.

MJ

ads20101

mjsmyth wrote: »

I know that the above channels as FTA, but if you only have a Freesat box, it can be a pain to flip between FTA and Freesat modes depending on your receiver.

Anyway, according to this post on Digital Spy, they are due to join next week.

MJ

Good, I have humax 500g dvr. I thought I was being clever switching over and back before I realised that by doing that I lost my series link on all the programmes I wanted to record.

This way I will have the best of both worlds.

Surprising though, sky could've done this a long time ago.

Dozen Wicked Words

ads20101 wrote: »

Good, I have humax 500g dvr. I thought I was being clever switching over and back before I realised that by doing that I lost my series link on all the programmes I wanted to record.

This way I will have the best of both worlds.

Surprising though, sky could've done this a long time ago.

It is strange, as everyone of their ad breaks contains at least one for their pay tv platforms and would be great way of advertising themselves (as if they didn't advertise enough already). I thought it was a strange decision when they took sky sports news off freeview in the UK as that was a great way of pushing their most expensive channels at every opportunity.

mike65

SSN will be back at some point I'll wager. Having these channels on Freesat EPG is not that much of a deal but it'll be easier navigation using some boxes.

Now any chance of some of the UKTV channels appearing (or electric sofa! ) ?

ftakeith

mike65 wrote: »

SSN will be back at some point I'll wager. Having these channels on Freesat EPG is not that much of a deal but it'll be easier navigation using some boxes.

Now any chance of some of the UKTV channels appearing (or electric sofa! ) ?

http://twitter.com/freesat_tv

lertsnim

He never suggested that it wasn't true.

celticfc

Great news, challenge can regularly have some gems for the channel flicker

ads20101

Any news on what time it will happen. Will the epg change automatically at midnight or do I need to reset the system?

mike65

Its Monday morning, probably the small hours, if they do not appear I'd just power down fully and reboot.

ads20101

mike65 wrote: »

Its Monday morning, probably the small hours, if they do not appear I'd just power down fully and reboot.

Cheers

efb

Pick TV was formally Sky 3 yeah?

blueser

It'd be nice if ''they'' (yes; them again!) decided to carry the HD variants of (Channel)5 and ITV2, 3 and 4. Won't hold my breath though.

mike65

ITV have an exclusive deal for HD with SKY so we'll be waiting, C5 are just cheapskates.

ads20101

Not on the epg so far.....

efb

Does Pick TV mean Futurama?

Boo yeah!

mike65

Bah, its all a hoax! (hopefully they'll be along later)

mike65

They're on!

celticfc

Had to do a manual re-tune on my Humax HDR, but they're there now.

irishlad123456

I.have a.satellite receiver and already hav.sky news do I.need to.retune

pa990

irishlad123456 wrote: »

I.have a.satellite receiver and already hav.sky news do I.need to.retune

this only affects freesat branded boxes.

pa990

efb wrote: »

Does Pick TV mean Futurama?

Boo yeah!

looks like it does

http://entertainment.ie/TV_Listing/01+December+2012/1172/Pick+TV.htm

evilivor

celticfc wrote: »

Had to do a manual re-tune on my Humax HDR, but they're there now.

Me too and lost all my scheduled recordings which is a total pain.

Headshot

Great to see challenge on freesat. Great for TNA