Non-UK channels - frequently asked questions

Francesco: From your description, as long as you point your dish at the correct satellites you shouldn't have any problems.

Lesley: You might need two boxes and suitable cables to a quad-LNB to get the channels you want reliably.

My Italian friend is going to stay in Philippines for good and he is asking me if he can still watch Italian channel using dish and receiver in the Philippines? Thank you very much.

Leo: Sorry, no. You can't see the satellites from that area of the globe!

what is the best satellite to receice free to air italian channels

james: The best satellite to receive free-to-air Italian channels are the Hotbird group 6, 7a and 8 at 13 degrees East. Unfortunately all the quality channels are encrypted in Videoguard. (map)

james: Here is a list of channels that you can watch:

3 Channel, 50 Canale, AB Channel, Administra.it, All Music, All Sex, Architecture Construction Materials Channel, Arcoiris TV, BergamoSat, Betting Channel, Bio TV, Blu, Blu Line TV, Blu TV, Calabria Channel, Camera dei Deputati, Canale 5, Canale 8, Canale Italia, Carpe Diem, Cartomanzia Lotto, Casa Italia, Challenger TV, Challenger TV 4 USA, Coming Soon TV, Conad, Dance TV, Denaro TV, Divafutura Channel, E'TV Emilia Romagna, E'TV Marche, Eco TV, Elite Shopping TV, Erde & Mensch, Europa 7, Facile TV, Free Channel, Fuego TV, Galaxy, Gay TV, GBR, Genius TV, Health & Beauty TV, High Life TV, Holiday Sat, House Channel, Infochannel TV Sardinia, Italia 1, Italia 2 Sat, Italia 8 Prestige, Italia Channel, Italiamia Sat, Italian Music, Italiani nel mondo Channel, Italy Sat, Julie Channel, La 7, La 8, La 9 Sat, La Nuova TV, Lazio Channel, Libera, Mare TV, MediaShopping, Mediatel, Mediolanum Channel, Mediterraneo Sat, Metropolis TV, MilanoSat, Mondo Arte, Motori TV, MTV Italia, Napoli Mia, Napoli Nova, Napoli TLA, Nessuno TV, New TV, Noello Sat, Nostradamus, Number One Channel, Oasi TV, Odeon Sat, One Minute TV, Petmania TV, Piemonte Sat, Play TV, Pleasure TV, Poker TV, Puglia Channel, Punto Sat 1, Punto Sat 2, Punto Sat 3, Puntoshop Channel, Qoob, Radio Italia TV, Radio Radio TV, Rai Due, Rai Edu 1, Rai Edu 2, Rai Gulp, Rai Italia, Rai Med, Rai Nettuno Sat Due, Rai Nettuno Sat Uno, Rai News 24, Rai Sport più, Rai Tre, Rai Uno, Raitalia 3 Asia, Rete 4, Rete Capri, Rete Oro Sat, Rolsat, Roma Sat, Roma Uno, Rosemary Sat, RTB International, RTL 102.5 RadioVisione, S24 Sat, Salento Channel, Sardegna 1 Sat, Sardegna Channel Sat, Senato Italiano, Show Room, Sicilia Channel, Sky Inside, Sky Meteo 24, Sky TG 24, Sky TG 24 active 3, Sky TG 24 active 5, Sky TG 24 active In primo piano, Sky TG 24 active Sport, Sport Channel, Sri TV, Star Sat, Stravinci, Studio 100 Sat, Studio Europa, Subacquea TV, TBM, TBN Italia, Tele A, Tele A Sat, Tele Padre Pio, TeleCampione, Telecolore, TeleFoggia, TelefortuneSat, Telelombardia, Telemarket, Telemarket 2, Telenord, Telenova, Telereporter, Telereporter Sud, Telestar, TeleStudio Modena, Teletirreno, Tiziana Sat, Toscana Channel, TR 2 Sat, Trentino TV, TRSP, TV 7 Lombardia, TV Moda, TVA Vicenza, Ulisse, Umbria Channel Sat, Videolina, Viva l'Italia Channel, World Fashion Channel International, XL TV, YKS Channel

please see Free TV from Italy - LyngSat for more

Hi, My dad lives in the UK and already has Italian channels but finds that the football is encrupted. Is there anyway he can do to watch serie A games?

claudia gandini: Not legally, no.

Hi there,
I have a valid subscription for Italian Sky and I used to get it connected to Polish Polsat (in my flat in London E6) dish pointing in some direction - I do not know which satelite, but Italian Sky was working perfectly on that.
Now I moved (SE8, London) and need to set up the dish. Do you know in what directions I need to point it at? Which satelite forwards Italian sky?

alex: Please see http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/hb7a.htmlto find your angles.

can anyone please tell me where in west wales i can find someone to supply, and install italian satalite tv ??? (map)

mike ciminera: Installers | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 ?

I'd like to buy a satellite receiver to be able to see italian channels from the UK but I don't know which one is best. also any dish is the same or i need a big one?
Thank you in advance for your help.

Angelo: You need a "generic" receiver, or at least a Freesat one that can switch to "generic" mode. You will probably need a one meter dish and you also need to align it to the correct satellites, which you may or may not find straightforward.

Can I recive Italian Channels from my Sky Dish as a free view channel

larry the short answer is no (map)

I HAVE BEEN WATCHING ITALIAN TV FOR YEARS AND FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS I CANNOT WATCH CANALE 5 ANYMORE. IS ANYBODU ELSE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IS HAPPENING?

I receive free, via a satellite dish, RAI and MEDIASET TV programmes. It is 3 weeks now that Canale 5 is scrambled. Also, Sicilia Channel (on Telespazio) has disappeared.

Is there anything I can do to get these two channels back?

Many thanks

Luigi

ciao..please help..my parents have recently lost canale 5 on their sat box..rai 1/2/3 are still there.can you give me a freq. to tune back or do i have to do something else many thanx...

rocco: 11919MHz Vertical, transponder 60 - see Hot Bird 6/8/9 at 13.0°E - LyngSat

You may have answered this already but.... If I want to keep the current set of channels broadcast by the Astra satelite and want to add some Italian channels like Rai must I have a second dish?

Naz Guerra: Yes, and probably a second decoder too.