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Channel 5 +1 launches, 5* and 5USA come to Freesat

You can now watch 5*, 5* +1, 5USA, 5USA +1 on Freesat and on Freesat from Sky without a viewing card. In addition Channel 5 +1 has launched on all satellite platforms.

You can now watch 5*, 5* +1, 5USA, 5USA +1 on Freesat and on Fr
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As we reported www.ukfree.tv link icon 5* and 5USA coming to Freesat by Christmas, Channel 5 has now provided the full complement of channels to all of the satellite platforms.

You can now view Channel 5 +1 on Sky 177 and Freesat 128.

You can also watch 5* on Sky 176 without a viewing card, and Freesat 131. On Sky 5* +1 has moved to 236 (was 177), and is now on Freesat 132.

The 5USA channel is now free on Sky at 174, and Freesat 129, with 5USA +1 on Sky 175 and Freesat 130.

Channel 5 +1 is now also on Freeview 44, with Channel 5 HD coming to Freeview HD in the coming months.





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NottsUK
Tuesday 6 December 2011 5:49PM
Briantist: Channel 5+1 is already on Freeview on channel 44 with its 8 day EPG. It launched on Freeview before it launched on Freesat.
Briantist
Tuesday 6 December 2011 6:00PM
NottsUK: It's not yet listed on the DMOL site (the primary source) and I can't get a signal on Mux A...
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NottsUK
Tuesday 6 December 2011 6:13PM
Briantist: Maybe DMOL are a little swamped at the moment with all that is happening and they haven't got round to 5+1 on Freeview. Ragarding your lack of signal on Mux A, the owner of a web site called UKFREE.TV is very helpfull in his advice on how to cure such problems.
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David
Tuesday 6 December 2011 6:19PM
Ch5+1 started on Freeview yesterday from Emley Moor.
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David
Tuesday 6 December 2011 6:21PM
CH5 HD are aiming to be on Freesat too.
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Willie
Tuesday 6 December 2011 8:57PM
Good to view the '5' stations on Freesat, do you think there is any chance of the UKTV or any kids Disney channels on Freesat very soon?
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Stuart O.
Tuesday 6 December 2011 10:56PM
What I don't understand with the DTTV platform is that there is a smile tv2 channels and a smile tv3 channel but no smile tv1 channel.
GOLD as of today only transmits 1100-1400 Mon-Thu/1200-1400 Fri instead of 1800-2300 7 days a week. 14 hours a week on weekday afternoons only instead of 35 hours a week 7 evenings a week. What is the point in that? How many viewers and revenue will they get from that? Probably not much I'm thinking.
Home as of today only transmits 1100-1200 Fridays only. What is the point in only transmitting 1 hour once a week?
There is now a Connect channel and a Connect 1, Connect 2 and Connect 3.
Why not rename Connect as Connect 1. Then have Connect 2, Connect 3 and Connect 4. Presuming of course the board game Connect 4 isn't a Trade Mark(!).
There is a TopUp Anytime 1 and a TopUp Anytime 3. There used to be a TopUp Anytime 2 but that closed which was silly to leave TopUp Anytime 1 & 3 rather than close 3 and leave 1 & 2.
There is now a TopUp Anytime 5 & 6 which is silly.
Why not renumber 3 as 2, 5 as 3 and 6 as 4 so you have TopUp Anytime 1, 2, 3 & 4, not TopUp Anytime 1, 3, 5 & 6.
I'm sure these broadcasters/providers can't count!
This data is provided from this website:
www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk link icon UK DTT Channel List (Freeview/Top Up TV Anytime) (LL115FQ)
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timonthenet
Tuesday 6 December 2011 11:57PM
David,

You said Channel 5+1 started on Freeview yesterday - what Mux is that on? Is it with the current Channel 5 Mux, or, as with 5*, %USA, on the SDN Mux?

Thank you,

Tim.
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Jim J (NG14 6**)
Wednesday 7 December 2011 2:09AM Nottingham
timonthenet,

Channel 5+1 is on Freeview Mux SDN
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David
Wednesday 7 December 2011 7:59AM
It is on 44 from Emley Moor I assume national.
Of course the mess of the program numbers order gets worse and worse on Freeview and Freesat only slightly better or maybe not both a mess.
Is Sky any better? They usualy better technicaly than these two having standard boxes and control.
Josh
Wednesday 7 December 2011 9:37AM
This is great news! All we need now is for Channel 5 HD to be on Freesat and Freeview and then Channel 5 as a whole can be considered platform neutral. I wonder how long it will be until Channel 5's deal with Sky ends so that Channel 5 HD can be made available on Freesat?
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David
Wednesday 7 December 2011 10:07AM
The reply I got on Ch5 HD from Freesat was wishy washy.
From Ch5 I got that they want to be on Freesat, so I wonder if problem lies with Freesat who need to wake up.
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Jacquie
Wednesday 7 December 2011 11:09AM
Hi there, New to here so please bear with me.....I live in Greece and have a monthly subscription with Sky and can get the basic channels but now we have lost Chl 5, 5usa, universal etc. I normally manage to find them by manually tuning the box but cannot find any new codes. can anyone help or basically have I lost these channel forever??? Does anyone know what and why this has happened.
Look forward to your replies
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NottsUK
Wednesday 7 December 2011 1:22PM
Jacquie: The channel 5 channels etc used to be on the satellite Astra 2A that covers most of Europe. Because of that they were encrypted and could only be seen with a SKY receiver. These channels are now clear with no encryption and have moved to the new satellite Astra 1N and they only cover the UK. Because of the move, the 5 channels on Astra 2A have now been switched off. I doubt if you will be able to pick them up now as far away as Greece.
Dave
Wednesday 7 December 2011 1:31PM Brighton
Another complete waste of bandwidth with these pointless +1 channels

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David
Wednesday 7 December 2011 2:22PM
Probably does not matter with Freesat Dave, but certainly agree with you with Freeview.
Really can't understand them too because of iPlayer and Demand TV being pushed and the Recorders with hard drives in too.
I see no need for the +1 hour.
Only reason I can think of, but seems a bit silly, is for the big broadcasters to keep smaller rivals off Freeview.
David
Ian
Wednesday 7 December 2011 4:36PM Hinckley
No 5+1 from Waltham?
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Brian Springthorpe
Wednesday 7 December 2011 5:29PM
I've just bought my Mum a new TV that has Freeview HD integral.

There doesn't seem that much that's HD though. I only see BBC HD, BBC 1 HD, ITV1 HD.

Why isn't there a Channel 4 HD, and why do Sky still seem to have the monopoly on all the HD channels?

Even Freesat only has a limited number of HD channels. Is this likely to change?
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David
Wednesday 7 December 2011 6:19PM
Freesat has BBC1, BBC HD (thought to become BBC2 in the future), ITV1, CH4 and a Japanese News Channel.
Ch 5 want to be on Freesat but Freesat not seem to know that.
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 7 December 2011 6:23PM
Brian Springthorpe: Channel 4 HD is broadcast from all Freeview transmitters on the same multiplex as the other HD channels. It is LCN52 except for Wales which has S4C Clirlun instead.
Ian
Wednesday 7 December 2011 9:06PM Hinckley
Any new of Dave going onto freesat?
J
John Whaley
Thursday 8 December 2011 10:13AM
Hi ---- I was wondering if you could let me know when I will be able to get "RTE" 1-2-3-4 ON Freesat .

I live in N.Ireland and my Post Code is :BT411HT .
Thanking you

John
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Dusty
Thursday 8 December 2011 10:34AM
Weren't these channels previously encrypted due to some licencing laws or the possibility of being view outside the UK? How did they eventually get around this, anyone know?
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David
Thursday 8 December 2011 11:11AM
Digital terrestrial in N.Ireland I understand will have the RTE and BBC etc all over Ireland, north and south with correct specified TV or box.
DSO in N.Ireland 2012.
Are they transmitting yet?
Dusty when I was visting NI they were watching a football match that was not on UK stations via an aerial in noth east of Belfast.
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Andy
Friday 9 December 2011 12:39PM
Channel 5, Channel 5 + 1, 5*, 5* + 1, 5USA and 5USA+1 have now appeared in my Freesat programme listing as of yesterday
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David
Friday 9 December 2011 1:19PM
Andy, have you HD Tv/box if so any HD version?
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Andy
Friday 9 December 2011 3:23PM
Just have the SD box, can't help but I suspect the HD versions are encrypted to tie you into Sky.
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charlotte
Friday 9 December 2011 10:27PM
By any chance does anyone have the code to get channel 5+1 its for sky
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Richard
Monday 12 December 2011 11:29AM
Charlotte, You can now view Channel 5 +1 on Sky 177
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rob
Tuesday 13 December 2011 12:16PM
I get 5 +1 5* and 5USA on my Freesat epg but on trying to view I get 'no signal' - is there anything I can do? I have never had to update new channels before - for instance Argos TV just appeared automatically
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Jannell
Saturday 17 December 2011 6:14PM Welshpool
Rob
We have the same issue :-( so fingers crossed we'll get it sorted :-)
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David
Saturday 17 December 2011 8:41PM
We are expecting that Five HD might follow soon but they have annouced they have decided not to take the spare HD channel on Freeview.
Do we think they will not do HD on Freesat and remain Sky Only?
Briantist
Sunday 18 December 2011 6:00PM
David: It will depend on how much Sky are offering to keep channels exclusive to their platform.
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David
Sunday 18 December 2011 8:45PM
So in Five HD case Sky paying them to be encrypted and on the Sky EPG only.
Who is paying Astra then in this case Sky or Five?
Briantist
Monday 19 December 2011 8:15AM
David: For these services, the transmissions are on Sky-renting transponders.
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David
Monday 19 December 2011 9:22AM
So Sky pay the rent for Five?
Briantist
Tuesday 20 December 2011 8:19AM
David: Sky uses their "marketing budget" to provide discounted access to their platform for HD channels, as being able to claim they are "exclusive" allows Sky to sell more Sky+HD boxes with their £10 a month additional fee.
Kelly
Saturday 24 December 2011 2:09PM Chesterfield
Just like Rob and Janell above, I also have those extra channels, but 'no signal' ... I cannot see an answer on this site, so does anyone have any inspiration, please?
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jb38
Saturday 24 December 2011 3:10PM
Kelly: I have just tried the Freesat channels mentioned by rob (13th Dec) and they are perfectly OK on my TV, what brand of Freesat device are you using?
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Maeve
Monday 2 January 2012 5:36PM
Hi I have an Irish sky box with subscription in France and have manually added the itv channels and five on the other channels area, I would like to manually add five plus one do you know the frequencies please
Many thanks in anticipatio
Félim
Friday 6 January 2012 8:58AM
Maeve,

You may find that you are in the same position as Jacquie in Greece (see above) as the Five suite of channels have moved to the Astra 1N satellite which has a UK/Ireland focused beam.

There may be small areas of continental Europe, typically coastal areas near to the UK, which can still receive these channels but you may be out of luck.
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Mick Cartwright
Tuesday 24 January 2012 10:25PM
Briantist,
I don't know if i should be asking you this ,but i would value your opinion.I can receive channel 5+1 on my digital TV on something numbered 850 which appears just above BBC 1 in the EPG.My BT Vision Box however will not find it after retuning several times.I have been told it should be on Freeview 44.Could you shed any light on this for me?
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jb38
Wednesday 25 January 2012 3:21PM
Mick Cartwright: Although I realise that you have dedicated your question to Briantist and so I don't really wish to intrude, however in the mean time if I could just confirm something you queried insomuch that Ch5+1 is EPG44 on a BT vision box and is received on the same SDN mux as is ITV3 (10) / Quest (38) and QVC (16) and a number of other programmes, these in your case received from the main station Winter Hill.

If you do not receive ITV3 etc, etc, either on your BT Vision box then it most likely has auto tuned to the PSB only station called Long Mountain which is shown as being possible to receive at your location, which of course being a PSB only station does not have commercial muxes such as SDN that Ch5+1 uses, hence you will not see them indicated.

I suspect that your main TV has also auto-tuned to Long Mountain and that's why you are seeing Ch5+1 slightly above the BBC up in the 850 ranges, as BBC1 / ITV1 etc from the Long Mountain will have taken up the low EPG channel numbers on your TV pushing Winter Hills channels like BBC1 / ITV1 etc up to the 800 ranges, the only difference being that Winter Hill also has commercial muxes containing SDN where Ch5+1 is located.

Although I am working from memory, but BT vision boxes are somewhat limited in their Freeview facilities and I don't think they have a manual tuning facility, and should this be the case (I will check later) it makes it extremely difficult in situations such as yours as you cannot use the usual trick of taking the aerial out whilst scanning then reinserting it at a given point, as Long Mountain and Winter Hill channels are interwoven.

Hope this helps to slightly clarify the situation.
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Conor
Wednesday 29 February 2012 10:50AM
Why channel 5 Hd is not coming to freeview it is tthat it has to apply for regional licences for scotland england northern ireland and to broadcast local adds on 5HD but still coming to freesat in some time in 2012 and I here tha uktv might make some channel come to freesat also and a sports channel also and will a french company siging a deal with SES 3d channels and other sport channells and movies and maybe film4 HD due to virgin might leting film4HD go FTA on freesat not freeview or sky due to same issue as 5HD
Briantist
Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:19PM
Conor: That's simply not true. Channel 5's regional arrangements are totally a business decision and have no need for licencing (unlike those on ITV, which do for competition reasons).

Channel 5 HD can be broadcast to the entire UK with no additional licence, and this is the case with the encrypted HD service that Sky viewers can watch.

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js
Monday 26 November 2012 7:34AM
I am posting this for the benefit of those whose Freesat PVRs may be behaving oddly.

I regularly scan for changes to the channels on ASTRA/Freesat and noticed that the Freesat streams had gone from the Channel 5 transponder (10964H) again.

(This has happened before, sometime between 25/10/2012 and 31/10/2012, and the streams were restored on 02/11/2012)

A Freesat box with a single feed, tuned to that transponder will not receive Time or Date information nor update the EPG data, with obvious implications for reliable recording capability.

This is from my channel differ program:

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Channel Diffs from 22/11/2012 18:25:42 to 23/11/2012 20:48:28
10964H
Changed:
Channel 5 ( 7700)
Channel 5 ( 7701)
Channel 5 ( 7702)
Channel 5 ( 7703)
Channel 5 ( 7704)
5 USA ( 7710)
5 USA +1 ( 7711)
5* ( 7715)
5* +1 ( 7716)
Channel 5+1 ( 7720)

Number of streams changed from 11 to 6
lost stream PID = 3840 = Data-FSAT-Tunnelled NIT
lost stream PID = 3841 = Data-FSAT-Tunnelled BAT/SDT
lost stream PID = 3842 = Data-FSAT-Tunnelled EIT
lost stream PID = 3843 = Data-FSAT-Tunnelled EIT pf
lost stream PID = 3844 = Data-FSAT-Tunnelled TOT/TDT
*******************

These streams are present (with the above exception) on all Freesat transponders and mapped to all Freesat channels.

The streams are still absent 26/11/2012 07:22
J
js
Monday 26 November 2012 9:32PM
The Freesat streams were back on 10964H when I checked at 11:30 this morning.
J
js
Tuesday 27 November 2012 2:04AM
This curious message is found in the Null Packets on 10964H and quite a few other transponders at 28 degrees:

47 1F FF 10 /packet header
FF 53 31 31 33 32 36 FF .S11326.
31 37 20 2F 30 39 35 39 17 /0959
FF 54 68 69 73 FF FF FF .This...
FF 6E 75 6C 6C FF FF FF .null...
FF 70 61 63 6B 65 74 FF .packet.
FF 77 61 73 FF FF FF FF .was....
FF 62 72 6F 75 67 68 74 .brought
FF 74 6F FF 79 6F 75 FF .to.you.
FF FF FF 62 79 FF FF FF ...by...
FF 52 6F 62 FF FF FF FF .Rob....
FF 46 69 73 68 65 72 FF .Fisher.
FF FF FF 61 6E 64 FF FF ...and..
FF 44 61 72 72 69 6E FF .Darrin.
FF FF FF 4E 61 67 79 FF ...Nagy.
FF 4C 6F 6E 67 FF FF FF .Long...
FF FF FF 4C 69 76 65 FF ...Live.
FF 4D 55 58 FF FF FF FF .MUX....
FF FF 67 72 6F 75 70 FF ..group.
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF ........
41 6C 6C FF 79 6F 75 72 All.your
62 61 73 65 FF 61 72 65 base.are
62 65 6C 6F 6E 67 FF FF belong..
FF FF FF 74 6F FF 75 73 ...to.us

Null Packets are used to maintain a constant bitrate for the Transport Stream and are normally stuffed with FF or 00 bytes.
J
js
Wednesday 28 November 2012 1:18AM
The Freesat Streams have been mapped to Sky News, PICK TV and Challenge indicating an imminent launch on Freesat of those channels.

The streams have also been added to 8901 and 8911 on 11023H which are to become BBC 1 Scotland HD and BBC 1 Wales HD, but no surprise there!

From my channel differ program:
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Channel Diffs from 26/11/2012 11:36:48 to 28/11/2012 00:10:34
Changed:
Sky News ( 4704) 12207V
Number of streams changed from 9 to 14
new stream PID = 3843 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3844 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3842 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3840 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3841 kind = 255 Type = 5
PICK TV ( 4751) 12207V
Number of streams changed from 6 to 11
new stream PID = 3842 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3841 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3840 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3843 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3844 kind = 255 Type = 5
8901 ( 8901) 11023H
Number of streams changed from 10 to 15
new stream PID = 3841 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3840 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3842 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3844 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3843 kind = 255 Type = 5
8911 ( 8911) 11023H
Number of streams changed from 10 to 15
new stream PID = 3844 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3843 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3842 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3841 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3840 kind = 255 Type = 5
Challenge ( 6031) 11565V
Number of streams changed from 6 to 11
new stream PID = 3842 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3841 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3840 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3843 kind = 255 Type = 5
new stream PID = 3844 kind = 255 Type = 5
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