BBC Freesat

Freesat from BBC & ITV

Freesat delivers the best quality entertainment with over 80 fantastic channels including favourites like BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV2 and ITV3. There’s sport, drama, natural history and more in breath-taking high-definition (HD) with fantastic sound quality.
NB: On 18th November 2008 channel 5 was added.

BBC and ITV, the two main public service broadcasters in the UK, have made their services available digitally through two platforms, digital terrestrial (Freeview via the TV aerial) and digital satellite (Sky Digital).
On digital terrestrial, the channels have always been available free of charge with appropriate equipment.
However, this service is currently only available to 73% of the population. After digital switch-off, this will increase to 98.5% for the public service channels and 90% for the full Freeview service. In order to provide fuller coverage and a larger number of channels, the digital satellite alternative has been launched.

What equipment will i need to watch Freesat?

There are two types of FreeSat receiver currently announced — Standard Definition (SD) -only receivers and High Definition (HD) receivers. You will also require a satellite dish positioned to receive the Astra 2/Eurobird1 group of satellites copositioned at 28° East, this is the same satellite which Sky are currently using.
If you currently have a Sky dish, this can also be used for Freesat, you could have both services from the same dish by using a Twin (Dual output) or Quad (4 output) LNB.

Two main types of receiver available after 6th May 2008

SD (Std definition)

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HD (High definition)

Freesat PVR Available soon
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To watch HD channels such as BBC HD, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD, you will also need an HD-ready TV as well as the HD Freesat receiver.

	Entertainment 101-199)		Music (500-599)		Radio (700-799)
101	BBC One	500	Chartshow TV	727	NME Radio
102	BBC Two	501	The Vault	728	WRN Europe
103	ITV1	502	Scuzz	729	Jazz FM
104	C4 London	503	Bubble Hits	730	Planet Rock
105	Channel 5
106	BBC Three	504	B4U Music	750	RTE Radio 1
107	BBC Four	509	Zee Music	751	RTE 2FM
108	BBC HD	513	9X M	752	RTE Lyric FM
110	BBC Alba			753	RTE na Gaeltachta
113	ITV2		Children (600-649)	777	Insight Radio
114	ITV2+1	600	CBBC	786	BFBS Radio
115	ITV3	601	Cbeebies
116	ITV3+1	602	CITV		Shopping (800-849)
117	ITV4	603	POP	800	QVC
120	S4C Digidol	604	PopGirl	801	Price Drop TV
121	C4+1	605	Tiny POP	802	Bid TV
122	E4	606	Kix!	803	Pitch TV
123	E4+1			804	Pitch World
124	More4		Special Interest (650-699)	805	Gems TV
125	More4+1	650	Teachers TV	806	Celebrity Shop
135	Zone Romantica	662	9X UK	807	Shop on TV
136	Zone Reality	690	Inspiration	810	JML Cookshop
137	Zone Thriller	691	Daystar	811	Thane Direct
138	Zone Horror			812	Simply Shopping
139	Zone Horror+1		Radio (700-799)	813	Best Direct
140	BET	700	BBC Radio 1
		701	1Xtra BBC
	News & Sport 200-299)	702	BBC Radio 2
200	BBC News	703	BBC Radio 3
201	BBC Parliament	704	BBC Radio 4 FM
202	S4C2	705	BBC Radio Five Live
203	Al-Jazeera English	706	BBC Five Live Sports Extra
204	Euronews	707	BBC 6 Music
205	France 24	708	BBC7
206	Russia Today	709	BBC Asian Network
251	Fight Network	710	BBC Radio 4 LW
		711	BBC World Service
	Movies 300-399)	712	BBC Radio Scotland
300	FilmFour	713	BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
301	FilmFour+1	714	BBC Radio Wales
302	True Movies	715	BBC Radio Cymru
303	True Movies2	716	BBC Radio Ulster
304	Movies4Men	718	BBC London 94.9
306	Movies4Men2	719	Capital
		720	Choice FM
5	Lifestyle (400-499)	721	Classic FM
402	Wedding TV	722	Gold
411	Overseas Property Channel	723	Xfm
406	Information TV	724	Absolute Radio
450	Men & Motors	725	Absolute Classic Rock
451	Audi Channel	726	Absolute Xtreme

Interactive 900-949			Gaming & Dating (850-899)
BBCi interactivity	851		Netplay (851 – was Live Roulette)
			Smart Live Casino (852)
			Gala TV (861)

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