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How to get Sky News on a Freesat box

Just a few button presses and you can have those channels that Sky hasn't yet allowed Freeview to give you... including Sky News

Just a few button presses and you can have those channels that
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On the set-top box:

Press [MENU] then [DOWN] twice, then [RIGHT], [DOWN] again to highlight "Manual Tune" and press [RIGHT].

On the menu scroll [DOWN] to "Transponder" and then use [DOWN] to find the value "12207V 27500 A".

Scroll down to the "Search" button and press [OK]. Tuning takes a few seconds to complete and press the [SAVE] button.

The set-top box is now in "non-Freesat mode". Press [EXIT] to see the TV picture, which will be Sky News, unless you have already added other channels, when it will be on the highest channel number.

To return to normal Freesat mode, press [MENU] again, and in the "Settings" menu, choose "STB Mode" and select "Freesat".



You can add any channel listed as free-to-air from this list: www.lyngsat.com link icon Eurobird 1 & Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D at 28.2E - LyngSat







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richard
Saturday 17 March 2012 10:52PM
i have retied several times to tune to channel 5 but with no luck dont even know if it is on the right freq anyone help
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richard
Saturday 17 March 2012 11:17PM
i have tried several times to tune my ross freesat to channel5 but with no luck dont even know if on the right freg anyone help
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colin
Saturday 28 April 2012 12:43PM
i have tuned sky news in on my freesat box it comes up on highest channel no but when i revert back to STB settings it wont go back to sky news
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j
Saturday 5 May 2012 9:22PM
i am not paying sky anymore since 2009 i now watch the free to air channels, i want to get the asian channel zee tv through sky, i went to the zee tv website where they say i dont need to be in a sky subscription in order to get there service all i need is a sky box and dish which i already have, but they need my viewing card number, but wouldn't my viewing card be inactive since i am not paying sky now? please let me know. thx
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franklyn
Monday 14 May 2012 11:03PM
cant get sky news on my comag sl60/12hd receiver comes up no reception i am getting bbc itv etc
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BILL
Saturday 9 June 2012 10:38PM Sunderland
Do i need a freesat box for each TV in kitchen and bedroom
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jb38
Saturday 9 June 2012 11:07PM
BILL: Yes! if you wish whoever to be able to view different programmes on each of them, as otherwise you could purchase an RF modulator and connect that into the scart socket on the Freesat box and feed an analogue signal via a coax cable to a TV in the other room, the TV picking it up as though it was an analogue TV channel in exactly the same way as done with a Sky box.
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Una
Saturday 9 June 2012 11:23PM
I moved from London with Freeview to West Yorkshire with no aerial, so bought a Bush SD Freesat box. Sky News, of course is missing, but in trying to add the channel as a non-freesat service, it just doesn't work. The instructions at the top of this site is nothing like what I - and one other in the blog - can see. Can ANYONE give us a direct answer. When you say 12207 V 27500 - does the V stand for Vertical by any chance in the LNB Polarisation. Tried that and still doesn't work. Thanks and help!
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Una
Saturday 9 June 2012 11:24PM
Lovely to have all these channels that I don't watch - hence deleted - but Sky News is far more important to me. Would have watched the Jubilee on Sky News and by all accounts excellent commentary, rather than than the awful celebrity-driven BBC commentary we had to put up with last week!
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jb38
Sunday 10 June 2012 4:05PM
Una: I have just tried the instructions referred to on a Humax Freesat recorder and it works exactly as described, and yes "V" does correspond to vertical, this automatically being linked to 27500 and likewise did not require to be entered.

If you give the model number of the box in question I will have a check on its menu system used, as obviously they are not all exactly the same in operation.
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Richard
Monday 8 October 2012 11:52AM Dorchester
I am almost certainly going to leave Sky, because there is so much that I pay for, but don't watch. Is there anywhere I can compare the programme list of Freeview, Freesat and Sky 'freesat' side-by-side, say in four columns where for example, if a program (like Dave) is shown as Dave/yes/no/no?
Briantist
Monday 8 October 2012 12:00PM
Richard: click TV at the top of the page.
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Dan
Monday 8 October 2012 12:11PM Luton
Are there any specialist sports channels available on freesat via 'add non freesat channels.' If so could someone list the important manual tune numbers please. Any would be appreciated, thank you.
leslie rainer
Friday 7 June 2013 8:11AM
when are they going to be more channels coming to free sat how can i get more channels keep saying going get channels but dont see any
Briantist
Friday 7 June 2013 8:24AM
leslie rainer: there quite a lot more music channels now, the section has expanded a lot in the last few months.
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