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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)

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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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