SKY TV

No problems with freesat!

still got it down on the costa del sol

there is some talk we will lose it which is whipping all the alternative providers into a frenzy selling

worry about it when and if it goes becuase you may find you spend a ton of cash for no reason

In Dec, a few ITV1 and the Fives moved to the "UK beam" on the first of three new UK TV satellites. In some areas of Spain, reception worsened on existing dishes. In other areas reception did not change.

It is expected that in August 2013, BBC ITV C4s will move to the "UK beam" on the second new UK TV satellite. Until the satellite is launched, tested, positioned, and transmitting no-one knows what reception will be like in Spain. The move may mean you will need to go for a larger dish to receive these channels, or your current dish may suffice - no-one knows.

BY larger dish this may mean, 1.8m, 2.4m or 3.1m or larger (they have used 4m dishes in Greece and Cyprus for the last 10 years). However, if these very large dishes are simply not wanted by clients, then an alternative solution will need to be found - eg internet streaming? However, not ALL channels will be lost - as some channels, like the majority of the Sky pay channels, and some of the less popular channel, will probably move to the "European beam" on the new satellite - which should easily be available on existing dishes.

These moves will affect channels received on Sky, Freesat and other satellite receivers.

UK Freeview is not available in Spain, as it is transmitted from land based masts in the UK. If you use a Freeview box in SPain, connected to a tv aerial in Spain, it will only receive the Spanish digital channels.

Thanks for the update Satandpcguy.

I have a place in Malaga. When there in February I had no channel 5 or the other 5's channels. My brother was there the week after me, and he told me I have now lost BBC1, ITV1 and Ch 4 as well. Have you heard of anyone else in the Malaga area losing the other main channels. He said the only one working was BBC2. Could it be they were just testing the new satellite or moved them to another frequency.

Thanks

On the 4th December, the only channels  to move were:

Five, Five USA, Five* (and timeshifts), 4seven, c4hd, and some ITV1 and ITV1 regions.

No BBC1 or BBC2 regions were moved, and neither were the majority of ITV1 regions

And if you can get BBC2 then you will still be able to get some of the BBC1 regions also...

So your loss of these channels will be an issue with your own system - such as dish alignment...

Thanks for that.

There have been a number of frequency changes over the past year. Sky boxes retune automatically but a lot of the other boxes don't. It is worthwhile seeing if you can find the channels you have lost by retuning before calling someone out to check the dish

Many BBC frequencies have not changed for many years. One of the last changes only affected a handful of BBC channels, and that was back in October / November 2012. There have been no changes to BBC frequencies in 2013,and C4 is still on the same frequency it has been for many years,so I doubt that is the cause of the loss of BBC1 and C4.

@ satandpcguy I am not an expert like you so don't know for sure that it was caused by frequency changes but there were some regional BBC 1 channels that people lost and were able to find again by retuning in October & November last year

How do you go about retuning the channels on a normal sky box.

Thanks.

All BBc channels gone this morning!

All BBC channels gone this morning!

Same in Malaga on my satellite receiver

Fortunately I have cable TV and that still has all the progs.as previoulsy, including all BBC.    I do not know how the supplier is receiving the BBC channels, that they are sending. 

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