PBS America coming to freesat on 1st Nov 2015

ftakeith

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2110240

Variety pack needs to replace sky original bundle asap

documentary channels are very limited

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/pbs-america-to-launch-on-freesat/

29th October 2015 actually is the correct date

lertsnim

Good news

Harry Palmr

Should be New Channels thread

Is PBS any good, anyone here been watching it on SKY?

mackersdublin

https://twitter.com/PBSAmerica/status/652077378361884672

Freesat channel 160 - 31st October

corm500

Great news

byte

Indeed, that'll be a great wee addition to the Freesat box.

kooga

for non freesat boxes do we have a tp number tks

Gerry Wicklow

12110 H 27500 5/6

dublinman1990

This is brilliant news. I never seen the channel before in my life.

It will be a great addition to all who are either Freesat viewers or have the UK Satellite channels combined with Saorview.

theoneeyedman

dublinman1990 wrote: »

This is brilliant news. I never seen the channel before in my life.

It will be a great addition to all who are either Freesat viewers or have the UK Satellite channels combined with Saorview.

Not available FTA from what I can see, still scrambled on FTA receiver unfortunately

The Cush

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Not available FTA from what I can see, still scrambled on FTA receiver unfortunately

Still a few weeks to go, Oct 31st.

Gerry Wicklow

Now testing on 11307 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S ID 52225

ftakeith

ftakeith wrote: »

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2110240

Variety pack needs to replace sky original bundle asap

documentary channels are very limited

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/pbs-america-to-launch-on-freesat/

29th October 2015 actually is the correct date

yes joinfreesat was correct as its available on my Humax HDR1000S at CH 160 on freesat and able to set recordings from epg such as 'prohibition' next.
its also available on my sky box on sky ch 534 for everyone also to see

Harry Palmr

Have it now on 160.

Rick_

FTA sticky thread will be updated shortly with this and a few changes to some frequencies.

Capt'n Midnight

So far there's been a few documentaries.

If like me you are tired of the sensationalist blue collar stuff on discovery then it's a very welcome addition.

Johnboy1951

If you are into war and such stuff there is plenty there ..... but very little for those of us who dislike such programmes.

..... or maybe it is just coincidence that those were on when I accessed it ......

kooga

watched the last days of Vietnam last night.

Capt'n Midnight

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

If you are into war and such stuff there is plenty there ..... but very little for those of us who dislike such programmes.

..... or maybe it is just coincidence that those were on when I accessed it ......

It's all about having another channel with watchable programs.

It's america so yea military is huge part of their culture and lots of wild west stuff too. The one about Panama Canal had a huge death toll

But there's also pcoming stuff about Death Valley, Rodeo's ,Gold, Prohibition, Beavers(airplane), Niagra, Angor Wat,Maya, NRA , Easter Island, Alcatraz, and Time Team America

So may be an alternative to National Geographic for those of us who don't subscribe.

PBS also do Nova, which program shares with BBC's Horizon but no sign of it yet.

Gerry Wicklow

PBS seem to run weekly 'themes' so you get a lot of similar shows each week. And yes they do show 'Nova' and similar shows on a regular basis.

taytobreath

Anything by Ken Burns is good. Prohibition is a good 3 part doc, its my 2nd favourite channel for docs. bbc4 coming first