Hi xeine,
sorry, not from Newcastle,
but I know there are a couple of dealers in the area who could probably help with equipment. I don't know much about sports channels, but there is a fair bit of English language stuff up in the stars - Astra 19E, Hotbird 13E and Hispasat 30W, among others.
The Technomate is a fairly easy box to use and update - don't know anything about the Dreambox, I'm afraid
. There's lots of advice on the forum about both the receivers and the various channel options - just a case of dredging through the search options
