Biss Key on Intelsat 907 at 27.5°West for the "Satback" service

Biss Key on Intelsat 907 at 27.5°West for the “Satback” service Arqiva, who operate the UK Freeview service on behalf of the UK broadcasters, are leasing a transponder on the Intelsat 907 satellite located at 27.5 degrees West. In a deal signed in April 2007, Arqiva will use IS-907 to feed the signal to 90 […]

Sky to launch new more new channels on its basic TV package

Sky to launch new more new channels on its basic TV package Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature will be laucnhed and be part of Sky’s basic entertainment service and via Now TV’s Entertainment Monthly Pass. Sky Documentaries will be the home of real life stories from award-winning film makers, including HBO and Showtime documentaries and […]

WWE comes to Channel 5 in new UK television deal

WWE comes to Channel 5 in new UK television deal Earlier this month WWE launched on BT Sport in the UK, taking over the exclusive live broadcasts of Raw, SmackDown and NXT, as well as NXT UK and WWE’s monthly pay-per-view events from Sky Sports, who held those rights for the last 30 years. Today […]

Sky Comedy to replace Universal Channel soon

Sky Comedy to replace Universal Channel soon Sky Comedy is a new channel from Sky and launches at midday on 27th January 2020. It will be on Sky channel

Free La Liga on Sky TV this weekend

Free La Liga on Sky TV this weekend For the launch of La Liga TV HD on Sky channel 435, for the first two weeks, all Sky subscribers will be able to watch live La Liga games on the channel. (Sky subscribers only, this is not available on Sky boxes without a sky viewing card.) […]

A reminder that you cannot receive Freeview in Spain

A reminder that you cannot receive Freeview in Spain Hardly a week goes by when someone asks myself, or in Facebook groups, if they can receive UK Freeview in Spain, or if they can use a Freeview box with a satellite dish to watch UK TV in Spain. This is also not helped by “UK […]

First image for the new Arris Freesat receiver

First image for the new Arris Freesat receiver The first images for the new Freesat box, produced by Arris have been released. Mid 2019, Humax lost the contract to produce the Freesat+ HDR recording receivers. Which was a shame as they are very good and easy to use receivers. Since that announcement, stocks of Humax […]

A few UK TV channel closures happening in the near future...

A few UK TV channel closures happening in the near future… Sewing Quarter – closed 30th December. VH-1 UK – closes 7th January 2020. 5Spike – to be replaced by Paramount Network 7th January 2020. Box Upfront – due to close at 6am on 9th January 2019 Universal TV – closes 27th January 2020. Horse […]