My Hotbird FTA Channel Collection

[r6mile]

My antenna is oriented to the Hotbird satellites at 13º E and I'm using a Philips DSR1000 FTA decoder.

This is a collection of FTA channels that I have been making over the months.
Here there are channels in English, Spanish, Italian, and French. There might also be some music or sports channels in other languages.

News: Canal 24 Horas, Rai Notizie 24, BFM TV, Sky TG24, Sky Meteo24, Euronews, BBC World
General: TVE International, Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Retequattro, Canale 5, Italia 1, TV5 Monde Europe, TV5 Monde FBS, NT1
Discovery: Planet, Arté, Coming Soon, Rai Doc-Futura, Rai Edu 1, Rai Edu 2, Rai Utile
Music: All Music, Music Box Italia, RTL 102.5 TV, NRJ 12, Europe 2 TV, MTV Austria, VIVA Polska
Sports: Rai Sport Sat, Sportitalia, Planeta Sport, Dubai Sports, Real Madrid TV

Feel free to add any channels to this list!

 

[o.trofense]

news: russia today, bbc world, cctv9...
religious: telepace, canção nova, trsp, noursat, tbn...
general: rtpi, luxe...

 

[tesla]

Would it be easy for you to write also the frequency for each channel?

 

[Analoguesat]

You could of course go and find the frequency yourself if you are interested in watching any particaluar channel

http://www.flysat.com/hotbird.php

 

[harrowwoman]

MBC for movies and documentaries in English

 

[NickCY]

Ch-3 Arabic IBA TV (frequency 12220 MHz Horizontal) is also very good! They have quite a few American and English series. I watch American Idol everyday (2:00-3:00 p.m Cyprus time) and they also have nice documentaries in English from time to time. They also show a lot of British series in the evening. Good stuff!

 

[SilentlyScreaming]

... with this update, but hope it is of use to people :>

OK, so Hotbird, on a Metabox 10 with v1.6.1 of Metadream (Keys=1st Sept 06), this is my collection...


News

BBC World
CNNI - CNN
EuroNews (Audio Channel 2 for English)
Russia Today
CNBC
CCTV9
Khabar
Sky Meteo24


Music

VH1
MTV Austria
MTV F (rance)
Viva Polska
NRJ12 HQ
Music Box Russia
Magic TV
PMC
All Music
4fun.TV
Tapesh 2
Tapesh 3
Iran Music
MLive
Balkan Media TV
Magic TV
Radio Italia TV
Telesud
Melli TV
Music Box Italia
Europe 2 TV


English

Cartoon Network (Audio Channel 4 for English)
10.722H (Jetix)(Audio Channel 3 for English)
Arirang TV
E! Europe
CNBC - Post 2am
VOA - TV1 (HBI-8)
CCTV9 - NightTime has more English audio
EBS-1005 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
Khabar - Morning seems to have more English, other times are Russian and Kazakh
IBB TV Dedicated
JSTV2 (Audio Channel 2 for English)


English sometimes

SF1 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
SF2 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
TSI1 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
TSI2 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
TSR1 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
TSR2 (Audio Channel 2 for English)
JSTV1 (Audio Channel 2 for English) - May recently have changed their encryption
SLO-TV2 - Evenings some UK series with original audio and Slovak subtitles
The above section probably gets watched the most, it has Malcolm in the Middle, Family Guy, Simpson, Charmed, CSI, CSI Miami, ER, The Invisible Man, UK dramas, basically couldn't believe the amount of stuff, mainly in the evening (GMT)

Miscellaneous - Not necessarily English, but ok for background fodder

GameOne
Baby TV (Audio Channel 2 for UK English, Audio Channel 1 for US English)
Cermicanda
KBS World
Telesud
Fashion Tv
World Fashion
F Men
Nile TV International
Wind Int. TV


Sport - Some English, but Sport doesn't always need an annoying commentator :>

Motors TV (Audio Channel 2 for English)
Real Madrid TV
Dubai Sports
Prima TV
RaiSportSat
Sailing Channel
Planeta Sport


Russian

RTR
Channel 1 Russia
Russia Today
Music Box Russia
Khabar
K+
Planeta Sport
10.722H (Jetix)(Audio Channel 1 for Russian)
EuroNews France (Audio Channel 7 for Russian)

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[Radiotom]

I am going to install a dish and receiver for Hotbird in order to watch RAI and BBC World. I HOPE they are still FTA!

 

[Lazarus]

Rai is still generally FTA (apart from when Rights Restricted stuff is being broadcast), but don't expect it to remain so in the long term - qv TivùSat.

I see no possibility at all of BBC World ceasing to be FTA.

 

[info]

What is wrong with rescanning your receiver yourself, you will then get all the uptodate channels.

Info

 

[jordie]

I am installing hotbird for an italian friend today, if i do a rescan on the reciever will it bring up all the free channels or will I have to add ones manually

 

[Lazarus]

Depends upon what type of scans the Receiver allows.

If Blind/Auto, you'll get everything, but can preselect FTA only.

If Network, you'll get everything tagged with the same Network flag as the TP you start with.

Or, if you are just scanning a pre-stored TP list, you'll need to bring it up to date first by correlating with Flysat, Lyngsat, etc.