Freesports HD has left Freesat.
According to reports, Freesports HD has been removed from the Freesat programme guide, apparently due to disputes over fees – although this has not been confirmed by either party.
The Freesports channel is still broadcasting, and is still on the Sky guide.
But if you are a Freesat user, then if you want to watch Freesports, then you will have to do it via “non Freesat mode”.
Sky are to close three Standard Definition “Sky Cinema” channels, in a move seen to be towards HD only distribution in the UK.
The three Sky Cinema channels set to cease SD broadcasts from the end of June 2020 are : Sky Cinema Continue reading »
The Travel Channel has been removed from the Sky EPG today by channel operators Discovery.
This has meant a few Discovery channel number changes:
Travel Channel removed (178)
Discovery History 171 > 177
Discovery Home & Health 177 > 178
Discovery History +1 Move 271 > 277
Discovery Home & Health +1 277 > 278
Travel Channel is still transmitting from the satellite, for how long who knows.
Earlier this month, some Virgin Media users have been sent a letter to tell them that their current Virgin Media box they are using to access Virgin Media (and therefore Sky UK) pay channels will soon no longer be able to be used for pay tv channels.
They will be issued with a free upgrade to a new Vigin Media box. ( see community.virginmedia.com/t5/Virgin-TV-V6/Free-swap-to-V6/td-p/4277655 )
Why is this news and how could it impact your viewing on IPTV?
In the next few weeks some Spanish TV channels will be changing frequencies.
Due to the selling off of some of the TV range of terrestrial frequencies for 5g data services, Spanish TV channels on those frequencies are having to move to new frequencies.
So the channels in the 700-800 MHz range will be switched off on the 1st July 2020. Continue reading »
Sky Cinema will be launching its very own animation channel next month.
Sky Cinema Animation will be available from July 23 2020.
Sky Cinema Animation will be available to all customers at no extra charge.
Sky Cinema Animation will be showing family-friendly favourites (and their sequels) such as The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Despicable Me and How to Train Your Dragon 3.
After this year’s season, RTL will end its live transmissions of Formula 1 races, which the German broadcaster has been showing on free-TV since 1991.
“The competition for the TV rights has changed, the market has partly overheated and thus left the quite ambitious, yet economically justifiable framework that we have set for ourselves,” said RTL managing director Jörg Graf. “We will now focus all our energy, passion and excitement on football as the number one TV sport and our recently acquired rights package.”
If you have recently just lost your reception of UK TV channels like Sky News and Pick TV, then this is because they have changed frequencies.
Users with Freesat or Sky boxes will not be affected as these boxes automatically update whenever channel change their frequencies.
But users of cheap / basic “free to air” receivers will have lost these Sky News and Pick TV channels, as your box has not updated with their new frequencies. One of the disadvantages of such boxes.
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Sky Sports will start to “unpause” their subscribers, and start to bill their customers again.
With live sport starting again, including live Premier League and Championship football, Sky has started to bill its customers for the period 19th June – 30th June. Continue reading »
The Premier League season is set to restart on Wednesday 17 June with Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Manchester City v Arsenal.
(*subject to government approval.)
The matches are the two games in hand.
A full fixture list would then be played on the weekend of 19-21 June. Continue reading »
Over the last week or two, after numerous phonecalls and emails and messages from many people around the Valencia and Costa Blanca area, it appears that the return of the summer heat and humidity is causing some loss of signals for some UK TV channels via satellite.
Primarily, channels operated by UKTV Group, like Dave, Drama, Yesterday, Gold, Eden, Watch seem to be most affected. Continue reading »
Proposed BBC Four changes
As part of the BBC’s Annual Plan, under proposals submitted to Ofcom today, most of BBC Four’s original programming would switch to BBC Two, with BBC Two becoming the home of the BBC’s specialist programming Continue reading »
Covid 19 : Phase 1 BOE “for the relaxation of certain national restrictions” in Spain
Order SND / 399/2020, of May 9, for the relaxation of certain national restrictions, established after the declaration of the state of alarm in application of phase 1 of the Plan for the transition to a new normality.
ORIGINAL TEXT Continue reading »
See how Facebook tracks even more information about you than you thought and how to prevent it with their new “‘Off-Facebook Activity’” tool
We all know that Facebook can track you moves and searches and app uses, and use this data to help them to target posts and adverts your way.
Not exactly a new revelation
But did you know that they also have the ability to gather such tracking data even when you are not logged into Facebook?
How to add Channel 4 HD to your Arris UHD-X Freesat box
Channel 4 HD was removed from Freesat on Thursday 22nd February 2018
But you can still watch C4HD on a Freesat box.
This guide shows you the way to tune Channel 4 HD on an Arris UHD-X Freesat box in Non Freesat mode