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2 million Freesat customers

The Guardian is reporting that Freesat has now sold 2,000,000 televisions and set-top boxes to access the subscription-free satellite service.

The Guardian is reporting that Freesat has now sold 2,000,000 t
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According to the Guardian, "Freesat has passed the 2 million customer mark".

Also of note is this claim:

"Freesat's customer research claims that "a record 47% of its customers have come from Sky households so far in 2011". The company added that it is continuing to see a "steady increase" in Sky defectors over time.

In addition:

Freesat says gross retail sales are almost £1bn and it is the fastest-growing UK television platform. "We launched three years ago and in that short time have quickly established ourselves as a real challenger and genuine alternative to pay-TV," said the Freesat managing director, Emma Scott.





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p batley
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:18AM
freesat is 100 times better than freeview ok there are some channels missing but who cares freeview as so many problems even after digital switchover to me freeview is just one big con people losing channels after switchover dont go bye a new freeview box by a freesat system welldont say i didnt tell you
p batley
Wednesday 7 September 2011 10:40AM
hi this is also to tell you you can get all the regional variations on freesat so if want to watch local news in scotland you can there are 18 differant regions also on freesat youve got 4 film channels which you dont get on freeview
Alan C
Wednesday 7 September 2011 12:11PM
p bayley
You left out that there are free HD channels on freesat which we don't get here in Eastbourne on Freeview and hopefuly we will be getting more soon!
darren
Wednesday 7 September 2011 8:08PM
Freeview is a waste of time, i would rather have Freesat any day and i can pick which BBC/ITV-1 i want unlike Sky and Freeview !
Briantist
Wednesday 7 September 2011 8:19PM
darren: You can watch any BBC version on Sky - see www.ukfree.tv link icon Which BBC regions are on satellite? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
U
Friday 9 September 2011 12:46PM
Freesat has become popular in Ireland as well.People are realising that you do not have to pay a subscription to Sky to receive a wide range of channels,public service,news,film channels,lots of radio stations as well.I have discovered from doing installions that the Sky type dish is more reliable.People who bought satellite systems in Lidl or Aldi solid grey dish.There has been problems in balancing alignment for vertical and horizantal polarity to recive full range of channels satisfactorily.
John P
Saturday 10 September 2011 12:06AM
How many of these are just decoders bought as compared to decoders that are inbuilt into new TV's?
I don't think that freesat is a real challenger to SKY people are being forced to look for a cheaper way of watching TV in these harder times. SKY have been quite successful in keeping away any quality choice from freesat. It could have potentially been much more than it actually is.(there isn't the 200+ channels as promised at launch)
Compare the channel line up of freesat and freeview on this site, its mostly identical, both have the same big five channels as well as the extra digital ones. Both have an equal amount of poor quality shopping and foreign news channels.
Freesat should at least have more HD channels like ITV2HD etc and more variety in music, documentries and childrens TV. If some of the exclusive channels could be prised away from SKY like cartoonetwork, Discovery, Eurosport or MTV then that might cause SKY some concern.
Duncan
Sunday 11 September 2011 1:41PM
Its a shame there are not more free HD channels on Freesat, instead of the same four that are on Freeview. This would give Sky something to think about.

With all the money pumped into BBC for conversion to hi-def digital over the years, seemingly wasted on putting up new buildings and relocation costs, they should be ashamed that their four main BBC channels 1 to 4 are not broadcast in HD across all platforms.

This should have been done by Act of Parliament and not left to the whims of highly paid executives who seemingly couldn't find their own highly padded backsides with both hands in a darkened room.

Total failure and incompetence from an organisation that has lost the plot.
Ian Smith
Friday 16 September 2011 10:38AM
Am I alone in noticing that Humax FOXSAT-HDR boxes do not seem to support subtitles on ITV1HD channel 119 - is there something different about the transmission mode? No other stations exhibit this shortcoming .
Briantist
Friday 16 September 2011 11:16AM
Ian Smith: ITV don't provide them, I think that is the reason...
Ian Smith
Friday 16 September 2011 11:54AM
Many thanks - what drew my attention to it was that the neighbour gets them on Virgin media 113 , so I assumed that it was something I could do something about. Kind regards.
Briantist
Friday 16 September 2011 1:03PM
Ian Smith: Virgin Media is a 100% independent system from satellite.
linda macdiarmid
Saturday 17 September 2011 10:49AM
I bought a freesat box to replace an old freeview box, set it up was great till high winds last week, now i have no signal at all. Will i have to get an ariel installer to come and reset my satallite dish and if so has anyone any idea of how much it will cost me, thank you for your help
jb38
Saturday 17 September 2011 11:51AM
linda macdiarmid: Purely referring to the problem mentioned, its almost certain that the dish has moved a fraction hence the reason for no signal. If it was easily accessible you could try giving it the smallest nudge to the left or right, or more accurately obviously back "into" the direction the wind was sweeping across it.
linda macdiarmid
Sunday 18 September 2011 10:46PM
linda macdiarmid: thank you for that i will get the ladder out and giv it a try :}
K W
Saturday 8 October 2011 9:31PM
Hey, we threw out our freesat card as we have a small son, and it was too easy to find 'adult' channels by playing with the remote. It was un intentional, he's only two. But I don't want to expose him to things like this. We also found a lot of t.v increasingly pornographic or unsuitable for ourselves to watch as we are Christians. Please would you be able to inform us if there is any way of asking sky to block channels for us so that even without entering a parental guide, they wouldn't be there in the first place? We also have teenage children. And is it possible to only receive programmes suitable for 12 year olds? Sorry if this sounds a bit weird!
Mike Dimmick
Sunday 9 October 2011 11:00AM
K W: I assume you mean Freesat-from-Sky as Freesat does not require a viewing card.

You can set up parental controls on all Sky boxes. See www.sky.com link icon Sky TV | Set up for the manuals for each different type of box, which will show you how to do this.

They do say that the default PIN is the last four digits of the viewing card's serial number - if you don't have the card, and you haven't set the PIN to something else, you will need to contact Sky to find out what it was or to get it changed.
Phil Martin
Thursday 13 October 2011 8:18PM Skipton
Hi is there anyway to get Yesterday,Dave,etc as my area the Skipton Town transmitter is not sending these channels out.
I have still got my 1 meter dish and sky box running to get all the freeview channels, but wondered if there was any chance that these channels might be on another sattelite.I scrapped my Sky subscription ealier this year to save money and dont want to go down that road.
Thanks
Phil
Briantist
Thursday 13 October 2011 8:45PM
Phil Martin: Sorry, but the answer is "no". The UKTV channels are part of the Sky subscription system on satellite. You can watch them online using the links in the panel in the right hand column.
Les Nicol
Tuesday 25 October 2011 12:05PM
Kate - Don't really know if you can really equate "Customers" as with "Sales" when it's a non subscription service as against Satellite or Cable subscription services. Many household will have more than one receiver in all these services. I suppose what is remarkable is the recorded sales since this service commenced.
Les Nicol
Tuesday 25 October 2011 12:13PM
Kate - You could also pose this question When is a satellite receiver "Free" to the customer on a subscription service,when it's functionality is downgraded on ceasing subscription?
Briantist
Tuesday 25 October 2011 2:18PM
Kate: Again, the article title is a quotation. If you make another post like that one I shall ban and delete you.
Kate
Tuesday 8 November 2011 11:54AM
Interesting spin...

2 million unit sales = 2 million customers!!!

Does that observation deserve a ban... accurate unbiased titles would not require comment ... :o)
Jeff Eastmond
Tuesday 8 November 2011 12:42PM Clevedon
What's your beef, Kate? - Two million units have been sold - that makes 2 million purchasers (i.e. customers) - as it is likely that there would be more than one viewer at each installed location I would say that the number of viewers of FreeSat would be more than the 2 million 'customers' that have been claimed - a bit on an *under-estimate*, wouldn't you say - don't forget that the article is a quote from a daily newspaper on a subject of interest to the users of this website - whether you believe the original source or not, don't knock this website for 'bias' when it is freely reporting what has been printed elsewhere.
Terry
Sunday 13 November 2011 9:36PM Hexham
... it's the football that keeps Sky afloat... Freesat and Freeview... lovely jubbly! Long live the Beeb.
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