Motorhome TV channel

CJhaughey

I was looking around the TV EPG the last day and found that there was a programme aimed at motorhomes and campers.
Short 30min programme but some good stuff in there about maintaining toilet cassettes, and campsites on the episode I watched.
Its on Sky 212 & Freesat 401 Mon,Wed, Fri, Sat and Sun.

dowtchaboy

Thanks for the tip.
Seems that channel (freesat 401) goes by the name of The Information Channel and carries an oddball variety of stuff.

Here's the specific info about the Caravan Channel - note the programs seem to be available online as well for those of us who never remember to switch the tv over at the right time!

Receive Our Channel

The Caravan Channel is aired on Information TV at 8pm every Monday, 7pm Wednesdays, 5.30pm Fridays, 10.30am Saturdays & 8pm Sundays. In case you're wondering, here's how you can receive our channel:

Via your television set
Some 24 million viewers, in over 11 million homes, can directly receive Information TV in the UK. There are no charges, nor is any registration required. No internet connection is required.
Information TV is a Digital Television Service. It is broadcast by satellite, and available throughout the UK as a “free-to-air” channel, accessible by all who have access to the Sky or Freesat digital satellite platforms. The channel is accessible regardless of which Sky subscription is taken by the viewer. It is also accessible by those who have terminated their Sky subscriptions, retaining only the “Free to air” channels. The channel can also be received throughout Western and much of Central Europe, with a satellite dish and receiver pointing to the Eurobird 1 satellite. There are estimated to be over 50 Million satellite viewing homes in Europe.
On Sky Digital we can be found at: Information TV (Channel 212)
On Freesat, Information TV is Channel 401
The Information TV programme schedule is listed on both the Freesat and the SkyTM Electronic Programme Guides, and all the normal Digibox facilities are available - programme synopses, reminder setting, recording (with SkyPlusTM), adding to “my favourite channels” and so on. Some programmes may carry subtitles or non-English language audio.
Throughout most of Europe, The Caravan Channel can be received via any satellite equipment pointing at the Astra/Eurobird complex at 28.2E.

Information TV
Frequency 11.623 H, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 27500, Service ID 50880


Via the internet
For broadband users throughout the world, all our channels can also be viewed live via web simulcast. Click the 'Watch Online' link on our home page to watch. There is no charge for viewing our programmes. The web streams are available in Flash, Windows Media Player or the newer Microsoft Silverlight (all free). To receive our simulcasts, you must have a broadband connection capable of supporting > 400KBps. If the broadcasts "stutter" and are interrupted, it is likely that your connection is not fast enough to keep up! In this case, you should close all other web-connected programmes, which might "steal" bandwidth, while watching our show.

dowtchaboy

Update: frequency change for Information Channel :
Is now 11.344 H rest of info is the same.

Strange channel - right now (noon on a Friday) there's a programme about restoring old trucks in Australia! This channel, and its sister channels Showcase and Showcase 2 have old old movies and quite a bit of Irish programmes, Country n Irish etc.

dowtchaboy

Watched a programme today - some interesting bits - if you are enough of an enthusiast to buy the caravan or camper magazines regularly you'd enjoy it.

By the way immediately after the Caravan Channel, there's ....wait for it....the Campervan Channel! Another 30 minute program. Same comments apply.

Suggest might be best to set up to record it and watch at more convenient times.

CJhaughey

dowtchaboy wrote: »

Watched a programme today - some interesting bits - if you are enough of an enthusiast to buy the caravan or camper magazines regularly you'd enjoy it.

By the way immediately after the Caravan Channel, there's ....wait for it....the Campervan Channel! Another 30 minute program. Same comments apply.

Suggest might be best to set up to record it and watch at more convenient times.

Its actually called the Motorhome channel, not the Campervan channel.
Not being pedantic but sometimes you can search by programme title and if you do it by looking for the campervan channel you won't find it.
Its actually produced by the same people as Practical Motorhome FWIW.