Nine channels suddenly removed from Freesat today
In a surprising move, nine channels were removed from the Freesat guide earlier today (Wednesday 7th February 2024).
More information in the video below:
All channels are operated by Narrative Entertainment.
The channels were withdrawn without prior warning.
The channels removed from Freesat today are :
GREAT! tv
GREAT! tv+1
GREAT! action
GREAT! movies
GREAT! romance
GREAT! romance+1
POP
POP Max
Tiny POP
This leaves Freesat with just a few movie channels.
However, removed channels are still broadcasting on satellite.
At the time of writing, the channels are still available on Sky digiboxes.
So , if Freesat users are missing these channels, it is possible to add them to your Freesat box in “non freesat mode”, scanning frequency 11.306 V SR 27500 FEC 5/6 DVBS QPSK
I have no idea if this is a permanent removal, or they just forgot to pay their Freesat fees in time, and so may appear again once they pay their fees?
Update 8 Feb 2024:
Reports are that the channels were removed from Freesat as the carriage agreement with Freesat had come to an end and that Narrative Entertainment decided not to renew it. The channels are still available on Sky, Freeview and Virgin media .
I have no freesat box. My (LG) TV is sat enabled. Can I do something to get these channels?
Scan the frequency that they are on, as given in the post.
They have not change frequencies for many months now, so if you did a channel scan in say the last 6 months, then they will be in your channel list already
I have a Panasonic Freesat TV, I couldn’t find anything in the menu about manual setting of frequencies, only Auto Freesat setup?
Most satellite enabled TVs that I know of have options to manually tune..
What’s going on no IT
No idea what yo mean by “no IT”…
But they simply decided not to renew their carriage agreement on Freesat, say the reports