The Italian Tax Police performed a raid in different Italian cities to fight a card-sharing network offering Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium packages, reports the AAPA. Quoting Italian news sources, the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance said that Sky Italia provided technical … Continue reading →
The BBC have terminated their contract to show F1 races three years early. And Channel 4 have snapped up the rights. Channel 4 will now take over free-to-air coverage of Formula 1, and will show a selection of live races … Continue reading →
The William Hill World Darts Championship will be screened live on the Sky Sports Darts channel, and worldwide through the following international broadcast partners. Sky Sports Darts – UK & Ireland (Dedicated Darts Channel) RTL7 – Netherlands Sport1 – Germany … Continue reading →
A report by Broadcast, suggest that it is highly likely that the BBC is to back out of its Formula 1 coverage three years early. ITV is then expected to pick up the free-to-air rights from next season. Broadcast understands … Continue reading →
Humax has become the first supplier of the Freesat Freetime set-top boxes to add Netflix to the customer offer. Netflix will be available on the Humax Freesat with Freetime HDR-1000S 500GB, HDR-1010S 1TB, HB-1000S, as well as the more recently … Continue reading →
The BBC and ITV have announced how they will be sharing the coverage of the Euro 2016 Finals. The opening match of the tournament between hosts France and Romania on 10 June will be on ITV. The BBC will broadcast … Continue reading →
RTÉ One HD and RTÉ One+1 finally made it on to the Sky EPG in the Irish Republic. RTÉ2 HD was added to a new transponder: its new home is 11758 H, symbol rate: 29500, FEC:3/4 DVB-S2, Additionally, existing Irish … Continue reading →
There have today been changed for Channel Five on satellite. As we reported a few weeks ago – https://www.satandpcguy.com/blog/2015/11/channel-five-satellite-changes-in-the-next-few-weeks/ Channel Five used to operate a number of different regional variations of Channel Five for different advertising in different regions of … Continue reading →
Audio Description Options on a Sky Digibox Audio description is an additional commentary that describes the action taking place in a film or television programme. The spoken narration compliments the original soundtrack, making it possible for blind and partially sighted … Continue reading →
The BBC has confirmed its interest in offering the iPlayer to other European countries, but has linked the issue to reform of the Licence Fee. It follows yesterday’s statement from the European Commission on cross-border portability ( see https://www.satandpcguy.com/blog/2015/12/eu/ ) … Continue reading →
Consumers who subscribe to TV, sports and film services – from Sky Sports to Netflix – will be able to access them when they travel within Europe under proposed new EU rules. Under the proposals, part of the European Commissions’s … Continue reading →
Movistar has become the latest international pay-TV operator to secure rights to the English Premier League. The three year on the start of the next season follows the opening of the auction for international operators. In Spain football rights have … Continue reading →
Further to our previous posts ( https://www.satandpcguy.com/blog/2015/12/new-channels-coming-to-freesat-soon/ and https://www.satandpcguy.com/blog/2015/12/official-freesat-to-get-three-new-uktv-channels/ ) it has been confirmed that Freesat will have three new channels on the 8th December 2015. A tweet from Really says : Hoorah! Good news Freesat viewers – @Reallytvchannel will … Continue reading →
Is Channel 5 HD coming to Freesat soon? What has lead to this speculation? Well, on Friday on the Channel Five satellite transponder, 10964 H 22 5/6, new label has appeared. This label is tagged as “7750”
Continue reading →Freesat has today confirmed the arrival of three new channels on to its service, but an exact launch date has not been announced. UKTV’s Really, Yesterday and Drama channels will launch “later this month”. It is expected that these channel’s … Continue reading →