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BBC Red Button Channels on Freesat?

  • 13-01-2019 7:49pm
    #1
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭


    A lot of this years snooker is being shown on the red button compared to live BBC 2, Can you still tune in a BBC Red Button channel for extended coverage of the Masters that started tonight on Freesat?

    Are there multiple Red Button channels or just the one?


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  • #2
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    10773 H 22000 5/6 QPSK


  • #3
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Thanks.


  • #4
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    It's Channel 981 and should be there without tuning it in.


  • #5
    mackersdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭mackersdublin


    Thargor wrote: »
    A lot of this years snooker is being shown on the red button compared to live BBC 2, Can you still tune in a BBC Red Button channel for extended coverage of the Masters that started tonight on Freesat?

    Are there multiple Red Button channels or just the one?

    The BBC use Red Button 2-6 for Wimbledon/Olympics etc. and are added and removed after their use. They don't use them as much in recent years. As mentioned Red Button 1 is always on 981 on Freesat


  • #6
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Sorry I didnt mean Freesat I meant the frequencies, whatever the term for that is, thanks.


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  • #7
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    Thargor wrote: »
    Sorry I didnt mean Freesat I meant the frequencies, whatever the term for that is, thanks.

    Just to clarify for future reference:-
    FreeSat is branded software used on branded boxes that offers plug and play setup, auto updating, 'Red Button' etc.

    Free-to-Air (FTA) boxes use the exact same signals from the exact same satellites and includes other channels who are unwilling to pay a fee for inclusion in the Freesat software. Currently this includes Channel 4 HD and lots of +1s. FTA does not have a 'Red Button' facility but can tune in the signal as if it was another channel.


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