ITV Changes 20th October…Some SD channels closing, more HD channels.
On Tuesday 20th October 2020, there will be some changes to some ITV1 regions.
There will be some ITV1 regions closing down:
ITV SD closes in Border England, Anglia West, Meridian North and Yorkshire East.
ITV+1 closes in Anglia, West, Tyne Tees, Westcountry, Wales and Yorkshire.
However, you will not lose your ITV1 SD versions. You will simply be allocated a new ITV1 region. For Example, If you receive ITV1 Yorkshire East you will now receive ITv1 Yorkshire, and amalgamation of ITV1 Yorkshire East and West. Some loss of regional news, and localised advertising. So viewers will not lose anything. But this does seem to be the first stage in ITV closing down all their SD channels, and preparing to go HD only…
Sky and Freesat box users will not have to do anything, as these changes will be done automatically. Viewers using generic “free to air” satellite boxes, or the satellite TV tuner in your TV, will have to use an alternative ITV1 region from your channel list, as your TV and channel numbers will not update automatically.
On the same day, ITV HD launches in Yorkshire East, Central East, Anglia West, Meridian North and Meridian South. The correct version of ITV HD will now be available in almost every region for Sky/Freesat viewers, except Channel Islands and Border Scotland.
Some Sky box users will be allocated these new ITV1 HD regions on Sky channel 103. Some users may find their satellite dish is now too small, or not aligned correctly, or using a poor make of dish, or poor make of LNB, and cannot receive ITV1 HD on 103. However you should still have access to ITV1 SD on Sky channel 803. ( as previously mentioned in a previous post : https://www.satandpcguy.com/2020/10/03/itv-hd-satellite-changes/ )
But closing all these SD ITV regional versions, ITV are saving about one entire transponders worth of capacity, so I dare say we can expect some more shuffling around of ITV channels, and maybe some of those “hard to receive” ITV 1 HD regions move to easier to receive frequencies.
Hi
Whats LNB?
i live in North Wales and Ive got a sky box in the kitchen and a Freesat/view tv in my lounge.
Ive lost ITV on the sky box 103 and cant get 803 either. I do get ITV on freeview and the wiring for both comes from the same sat dish?
I should say I only use my sky box for free channels as I dont subscribe . Could affford it at present.
Any suggestions
thank you
geoff
as you can see from the main post, ITV are doing some changes to their regions.
Perhaps a reboot of the Sky box will help sort out the EPG for you.
“I do get ITV on freeview and the wiring for both comes from the same sat dish?” – Freeview signals will come from a TV aerial, not a dish
LNB – Low Noise Block (converter. The “receiver” thing on the dish that collects the signal.