The First Of The BBC Frequency Swaps Occured Overnight

[Analoguesat]

BBC Three / CBBC (DSat1) and BBC News (DSat 2) moved to DSat6 (Astra 1N tp 48 - 10818V)

BBC ALBA and BBC One North East & Cumbria moved from DSat6 to DSat2 (Astra 1N tp 47 - 10803V)

BBC Four / CBeebies (DSat2) and BBC Red Button stream 1 (DSat7) moved to DSat1 (10773H)


This is in preparation for shutting down the 11954H widebeam tp carrying the BBCi & radio channels.


The second stage is overnight on 15/16th October - the radio services migrate & 4 of the BBCi services are discontinued. 11954H then closes at the end of October.

 

[Lazarus]

And anyone with proprietary Freesat boxes will need to do a Freesat re-tune as the changes have not been reflected in the 03.00 daily housekeeping routine.

BSkyB boxes are ok.

 

[Lazarus]

It seems that Freesat have now awoken from their stupor and boxes should have updated automatically as of around 11.00 today.

But for anyone who customarily powers their box down when not in use, a Freesat Tune will still be necessary (probably).

 

[ralphmagno]

so is anyone in the fringe areas still picking up the service?
i no longer have a big dish anymore ,and was wondering if anyone in cypress who can not pick it up with a 4 meter dish can now pick this up?
Ralph

 

[Analoguesat]

Doubt it very much - the BBC/ITV signals disappeared from Cyprus when Astra 1N went into service

 

[solly]

we look radio bbc end of october
we see of 2f bring back singal again
i post after launch info about spot uk beam more info

 

[Analoguesat]

Only if you can get the uk beam!

Might be worth investigating ip delivered solutions if you like the BBC programmes.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Sunday/Monday is the first expected outage of Astra 2 slot in Europe.

 

[M60]

Isn't it Sunday in to Monday for the Sky novation and Monday in to Tuesday for Freesat's? I seem to remember dates of the 15th for Sky and 16th for Freesat being mentioned in Alix's blog post.

 

[FRINGE]

so is anyone in the fringe areas still picking up the service?
i no longer have a big dish anymore ,and was wondering if anyone in cypress who can not pick it up with a 4 meter dish can now pick this up?
Ralph

Yes, its OK here in Tenerife - as always :-cheers.

 

[Crazyd]

so is anyone in the fringe areas still picking up the service?
i no longer have a big dish anymore ,and was wondering if anyone in cypress who can not pick it up with a 4 meter dish can now pick this up?
Ralph

Hi
If it's any help, I am still getting 6711 - 6715 here in East Crete. Obviously just a test signal with too many red circles!!

CD

 

[TENERIFEFORUMTV]

Yes, its OK here in Tenerife - as always :-cheers.

SKY EPG 0101 etc still working on small dish . SO NO CHANGE TO SKY EPG still ASTRA2A ????

 

[Analoguesat]

24 hours early bud!

Look at the first post carefully

The second stage is overnight on 15/16th October - the radio services migrate & 4 of the BBCi services are discontinued. 11954H then closes at the end of October.

 

[C0re]

The streams on the Astra 2B will cease by the end of October. On 10773H the BBCi 1 stream lit up under Channel ID "6390".

 

[C0re]

The radio channels have started on 10788V and 10803H. For now there's no EPG and no channel names as well.

 

[TENERIFEFORUMTV]

24 hours early bud!

Look at the first post carefully

well if you posted ´teresa may said´´ then i would have looked at date better ...but that would be the 16th not the 15th ,so why did they say 15th??

 

[Analoguesat]

Because its on the night of the 15/16 October which ties the timeslot down nicely. Alternatively the early hours of the 16th would have worked..

 

[Lazarus]

Hopefully Freesat will be more on the ball this time - either that or I shall be more patient waiting for them to do EPG Housekeeping.

Only got two Red Button Streams stored anyway on the non-Platform boxes, so minimal Channel editing there, too.

 

[Analoguesat]

Hopefully Freesat will be more on the ball this time - either that or I shall be more patient waiting for them to do EPG Housekeeping.

Only got two Red Button Streams stored anyway on the non-Platform boxes, so minimal Channel editing there, too.

You will only need one now......

 

[Lazarus]

Yes, a shame really.

But in some ways they've got away with effectively having more "Channels" than Ofcom actually allowed for years.

Q: When is a Channel not a Channel?

A: When it's an Interactive Stream



Yes, guv, really!