Freesat Box & Sky Box information

Did you know that you can get hundreds of free TV channels through your Sky dish?


You can get these with a Freesat box or Sky box or just about any other free to air digital satellite receiver.

NO VIEWING CARD NEEDED

This works in the U.K., Europe, and Ireland

Many free to air TV channels are available for free via your Sky satellite dish including Movies, Sports, Comedy, Drama, HD, Kids, Adults, Family programmes.

All of these channels are available for you to load into your Freesat box for free - you just need to push a few buttons on you remote control.

You can get over 100 more free channels for your Freesat box, that what is officially shown on your Freesat box's Programme guide.

With No card required

Yes - SKY CARD NOT NEEDED - these are all free to air TV channels.

And all available from the four satellites that provide the UK and Ireland with satellite TV.

Using your remote control, via the setup / installation menu options, put your Freesat box into Non Freesat mode and perform a automatic scan!

NON FREESAT MODE

More free TV channels on Freesat Boxes - Non Freesat Mode

The Freesat box has an Electronic Programme guide. This is the TV channel guide that lists all the channel on the Freesat box. However, not all of the free TV channels available are setup on the Freesat box EPG. For some channels, it is not work paying the money to appear on the Freesat boxes channel list. But, as the Freesat box is basically a free to air receiver, you can, by going into Non Freesat mode, scan all the available frequencies and channels, and receiver over 100 more channels that are available for free, but do not appear on the Freesat boxes TV guide. One such channel is Sky News.

This Non Freesat mode is the only real Freesat Cheat, Freesat Trick or alternate Freesat code available. You do not even need to know what the frequencies are, or buy a satellite TV installation book, as the Freesat box will automatically scan ALL available frequencies.

And, unlike a Sky box, you do not have to input a frequency code into a Freesat box, when you have a power cut. A Freesat box should be able to boot up correctly after a power cut and start to work almost immediately, after the initial download. This is because the Freesat programme guide is on a very strong frequency signal that is easily available across Europe.

A Sky boxes initial software download frequency is not on an ideal frequency for Spain and this is why you have to help your Sky box reset and perform a download by changing the Default Transponder frequency code. There is not any one correct default transponder frequency code you can use, you can use most of the 90plus frequencies to help reset your sky box.

DEFAULT TRANSPONDER ON A SKY BOX

Sky Box Default Transponder Reset Code Frequencies

More extra channel on a Sky box for Free!

Some companies claim that you can add 50 more free channels to your subscription sky box. This is partially true. Most of the free TV channels available on Sky and Freesat TV boxes already appear on the Sky TV guide. The only extra and additional free TV channels you can add to your Sky box are other alternate ITV1 regions.

You are allocated an ITV1 region on Sky channel 103. This is determined by using the postcode of your sky subscription card. However, you can, using the Sky remote control, input frequency codes on the Sky box to load into the Sky box all the other ITV1 advertising regions.

Remember that Freesat TV over Europe, just like Sky TV over Europe, is all dependent on your equipment, such as make and size of your satellite dish, make and type of LNB, and make and type of your digital satellite receiver. This will apply wherever you are in Europe: Spain, the Canaries and the Balearics, England, Ireland, Malta, France, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Germany and all other Eurozone areas.

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Sky Sports News HD - Sky Channel 455 and frequency

Sky Sports News HD launches tomorrow - August 23rd.
It will be available on Sky Channels 455.

Sky Sports News is on frequency 12266 H and is on Astra 2a South - so Sky Sports News HD should be easily available on the Costa Blanca Spain even on a small 80cm satellite dish.

Whereas the SD version of Sky Sports News is on a North beam satellite frequency where even some big 2.4m satellite dishes can struggle with reception of Sky Sports News in the afternoon.

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How much money do football leagues get from TV rights sales....

In the week that the sale of TV rights for international Premier League hit a new record reaching 1,556 million Euros, here is the status and values of the collective sale of television rights in the major European leagues.

The ranking is a reflection of the market value of the european national leagues. The English Premier League is still the most valued competition, both internationally (Asia) and for the domestic market.

1.English Premier League – contract from 2012/13 to 2009/10 (3 seasons): total amount of 3,538 million Euros, of which 1,556 million euros on the sale of international rights. English clubs have at their disposal 1,179 million Euros per season to distribute to the 20 clubs in the Premier League.
2.Italian Serie A – 2-year contract from 2010/11 to 2011/12 for a total value of 1,822 million Euros, about 911 million Euros annually.
3.French Ligue 1 – 4-season contract, from 2008/09 to 2011/12. Total value of 2,672 million Euros, about 668 million Euros annually.
4.German BundesLiga – 4-season deal, from 2009/10 to 2012/13. Total value of 1,648 million Euros, about 412 million Euros annually.
5.Spanish Liga – Barcelona and Real Madrid are not very interested in the collective sale of television rights, as they negociate their own contracts and get about 240 million Euros in annual TV rights, for a total of around 500 million Euros between the 20 league clubs.
6.Turkish Süper Lig – contract with a duration of 4 seasons, from 2010/2011 to 2013/2014. Total value of 1,041 million euros, about 260.3 million euros annually.
7.Dutch Eredivisie – 3-year term, from 2008 / 9 to 2010/11. Total value of 300 million euros, about 100 million Euros annually.
8.Greek Super League – contract with a duration of 3 seasons, from 2009/10 to 2011/12. Total value of 162 million euros, about 54 million Euros annually. (amount may increase if Olympiakos and Xhantos also enter the collective sale).
9.Portuguesa Liga – As in Spain, Portugal did not sell their TV rights collectively, with Benfica, Sporting and Porto pulled in a combined 24 million euros per year, roughly half of the total value paid to the 16 league clubs .
10.Polish Ekstraklasa – contract with a duration of 3 seasons, from 2008/09 to 2010/11. Total value of 101.5 million euros, about 33.8 million Euros annually.
11.Romanian liga 1 – contract with a duration of 3 seasons, from 2008/2009 to 2010/11. Total value of 85 million, about 28.3 million Euros annually.
12.English League Cup – contract with a duration of 5 seasons, from 2009/10 to 2014/15. Total value of 75 million, about 15 million Euros annually. The contract signed with Setanta before its bankruptcy was 157 million Euros for the same period, about 31.4 million Euros per year.
13.Belgian Jupiler League – contract with a duration of 3 seasons, from 2008/09 to 2010/11. Total value of 44.7 million, about 14.9 million Euros annually.
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HD Satellite TV The Newest Technology

I found this article in blogland. Its quite good in explaining the HD TV evolution, and the history of changes in televisions.

What is HD Satellite TV?

HDTV stands for high definition television. This is a higher quality television picture than the SDTV or standard definition television. High definition signals are available from paid television providers like Sky TV and other providers. The HD signal has a greater resolution than the SD signal, 1080i compared to 480i, which amounts to six times the resolution of the SC signal. The shape of the HD signal, when it appears on an HDTV screen, is similar to what is viewed on the screen in a movie theatre-much wider coverage that the old almost square format home television screen. The High Definition transmission also has three components to its signal, not one, like an SD signal. This results in less signal degradation and therefore greater clarity on your television. The HD signal is completely digital which also gives added clarity over the standard definition signal.

History of HDTV

The first publicly demonstrated television was given almost eight decades ago in England. From this first remarkable television demonstration of a grainy black and white image to receiving a high definition television signal beamed from twenty two thousand miles in space to a personal receiving dish has been a long road.

There are upwards of 270 million televisions in US households today. But it was not until 1949 that the sales of televisions began to rapidly increase. The first commercial color set was introduced by RCA in 1954 and by the time the 1960s set in most black and white televisions had replaced with color units. Also in the 1960s remote controls were introduced by the television industry to further enhance the television viewing experience. This was perhaps the one event that birthed the “couch potato” generation, not even having to stand up and move to change the television channel.

And then in the 1970s the VCR made its debut and freed the television viewer from real time viewing, allowing them to record a program and watch it when it fit into their schedule. In the 1970s and 1980s, cable television also became more mainstream as more channels came online, which today, exceeds 300 offered by the major paid providers. Beginning in the 1980s television began to become more of a central focus in the lives of Americans with the increased program offerings. A person at home could “view the world” and not even leave his or her living room. HD Satellite TV is just the newest advance in this 80 year old technology that has brought the world closer together and in some respects moved it farther apart. Television is wonderful at magnifying many of the problems that we need to solve in our world.

The present day HDTV signal began with research in Japan by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. The research was taken up by the US in 1980 and the first HDTV demonstrations occurred in the US in 1981. In the mid 1990s it was suggested that that an all digital signal would, in the future, become the standard for television broadcasting. This mandate ushered in the widespread use of HDTV that we see today.

Both Sky TV and other broadcsaters are now providing quality, HD programming through satellite service and even on TDT in Spain - the terrestrial digital TV service available in Spain via a TV aerial.

HD Satellite TV Receivers

In order to take advantage of the new hd satellite tv signal, there are new hd receivers satellites are tuned to transmit to in dish satellite hdtv home systems. These receivers are hard wire from the satellite dish to inside your home entertainment center equipment. Improved models are constantly being designed so that more dish packages can be selected by hd television viewers. The present day DVR has almost totally replaced the VCR as the standard program recording device. Many VCR units are still around, but the newer Digital Video Recorders can record 500 hours of SD television programming. This is a remarkable increase over the 6 hour maximum of the old VCR tape.

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Sky Sports News confirmed as leaving Freeview

Sky Sports News confirmed as leaving Freeview

Only pay-TV subscribers will be able to watch Sky Sports News as of August 23rd.

Sky has confirmed that Sky Sports News will no longer be available as a Freeview channel from later this month.

The digital TV, broadband and home phone provider revealed that the move will go ahead from August 23rd 2010 to enable it to "develop the channel through increased editorial investment".

This date also marks the launch of Sky Sports News's high-definition variant.

According to Sky, its existing subscribers with either the Sports or News & Events packs will be unaffected by the move. Those who do not have either of these will be able to view Sky Sports News as a bonus channel until February 2011.

Sky has pledged to put more reporters and production trucks on the roads in order to respond quicker to breaking news and revealed it will also be adding new presenters and programmes.

Sky Sports News will become an exclusively pay-TV channel.

Under the changes on Freeview, Sky Sports News will become Sky3+1 on Freeview and offer an hour timeshift of the already available Sky3 channel.

From that point, Sky Sports News will only be available on Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV, along with Sky's online and mobile platforms.

Sky said that changing Sky Sports News to an exclusively pay-TV channel is about "allowing it to benefit from continued growth in subscription revenues".

Also the satellite broadcaster also plans to launch Sky Sports News HD.


Freeview is a UK only digital TV service.
Freeview is a digital television services available via a TV aerial - ie terrestrial.
Freeview is not available via satellite.
Freeview is not available in Spain - dispite what many other installers say and advertise!

Spain has its version of Freeview - it is called TDT - Television Digital Terrestrial.

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Broadcast start dates for new channels on TDT in Spain

Broadcast start dates for new channels on TDT in Spain

The list below shows the start of each channel available;

Canal Nitro : Lunes 23 Agosto a las 13:30 Horas
Nitro Canal: Monday August 23 at 13:30

Canal + Dos : Lunes 23 de Agosto a las 8:00 Horas sustituyendo a 40 Latino ( gracias a moods )
Canal + Two: Monday August 23 at 8:00 am replacing 40 Latino

MTV : 30 de Agosto
MTV: August 30

La 10 : 20 de Septiembre
The 10: September 20

Marca TV : 28 de Agosto a las 9:00 Horas
Brand TV: August 28th at 9:00 hours

Boing : 1 de Septiembre a las 8:00 Horas
Boing: September 1 at 8:00 am

You may need to perform a channel rescan to have these channel included in your TDT Receiver.

Some community digital television systems may need to be upgraded to allow for these new frequencies.


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Live UK English Football / Premier League on Sky TV, ADMC and Canal + Spanish Satellite TV

Live UK English Football / Premier League on Sky TV, ADMC and Canal + Spanish Satellite TV

Here are the matches for September 2010

For more matches and up to date schedules please keep an eye out on the following thread on our Satellite TV Costa Blanca fourm
Live English Football matches on Satellite TV in Spain 2010-2011 Season



Saturday 11th September 2010

Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers 15:00 ADMC
Fulham v Wolves 15:00 ADMC
Manchester City v Blackburn Rovers 15:00 ADMC
Newcastle United v Blackpool 15:00 ADMC
West Bromwich v Tottenham Hotsp 15:00 ADMC
West Ham United v Chelsea 15:00 ADMC
Wigan Athletic v Sunderland 15:00 ADMC

Sunday 12th September 2010

Everton v Manchester United 13:30 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Birmignham City v Liverpool 16:00 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD

Monday 13th September 2010

Stoke City v Aston Villa 20:00 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD

Saturday 18th September 2010

Stoke City v West Ham United 12:45 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Aston Villa v Bolton Wanderers 15:00 ADMC
Blackburn Rovers v Fulham 15:00 ADMC
Everton v Manchester City 15:00 ADMC
Tottenham Hotsp v Wolves 15:00 ADMC
West Bromwic v Birmignham City 15:00 ADMC
Wigan Athletic v Manchester City 15:00 ADMC
Sunderland v Arsenal 17:30 ADMC ESPN ESPN HD

Sunday 19th September 2010

Manchester United v Liverpool 13:30 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Chelsea v Blackpool 16:00 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD

Saturday 25th September 2010

Manchester City v Chelsea 12:45 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Arsenal v West Bromwic 15:00 ADMC
Birmignham City v Wigan Athletic 15:00 ADMC
Blackpool v Blackburn Rovers 15:00 ADMC
Fulham v Everton 15:00 ADMC
Liverpool v Sunderland 15:00 ADMC
West Ham United v Tottenham Hotsp 15:00 ADMC

Sunday 26th September 2010

Bolton Wanderers v Manchester Unit 12:00 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Wolves v Aston Villa 14:05 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD
Manchester City v Stoke City 16:10 ADMC Sky Sports Sky Sports HD


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Sky Real Lives shuts down and stops broadcasting

Sky Real Lives shuts down and stops broadcasting

Sky has today closed down the Sky Real Lives portfolio of channels and reallocated the budget to Sky1 and Sky2.

As of 5.59am this morning, Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 ceased broadcasting on the digital satellite platform. Sky Real Lives HD and Sky Real Lives +1 have also shut down.

Launched three years ago to replace Sky Travel, Sky Real Lives produced a range of real-life programmes aimed at women in the 35 to 54 age range.

However, Sky has decided that the channel's audience can be "better served" by allocating the programming budget to the main Sky1 and Sky2 channels.

"By focusing content investment on those channels which offer greater reach and exposure, we believe we can better meet customer demands," said head of Sky Real Lives Barbara Gibbon.

"There will be no compromise on screen, nor in satisfying Sky Real Lives viewers, who'll continue to enjoy a rich diversity of high-quality pay-TV programming."

Speculation is already mounting about what will happen with the vacant slots on Sky's programming guide.

Possible options include the expected launch of Living HD, after Sky recently acquired the Living channel operator Virgin Media Television.

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Great live football weekend on GOL TV with 7 live games, from all the best international competitions.

SÁBADO 21 DE AGOSTO SATURDAY 21 AUGUST

FA PREMIER LEAGUE: STOKE CITY vs. TOTTENHAM (16:00) LIVE

FA PREMIER LEAGUE: BIRMINGHAM vs. BLACKBURN (18:30)

LIGA PORTUGUESA: VITORIA SETUBAL vs. vs. SPORTING (20:15) LIVE

LIGA PORTUGUESA: NACIONAL vs. BENFICA (22:15) LIVE


DOMINGO 22 DE AGOSTO SUNDAY 22 AUGUST

FA PREMIER LEAGUE: NEWCASTLE vs. ASTON VILLA (14:30) LIVE

LIGA FRANCESA: MONTPELLIER vs. CAEN (17:00) LIVE

LIGA PORTUGUESA: SPORTING vs. MARÍTIMO (19:00) LIVE

TROFEO CIUDAD ALICANTE: HÉRCULES vs. REAL MADRID (22:00) LIVE


LUNES 23 DE AGOSTO MONDAY 23 AUGUST

FA PREMIER LEAGUE: WIGAN ATHLETIC vs. CHELSEA (16:15)

FA PREMIER LEAGUE: MANCHESTER CITY vs. LIVERPOOL (21:00) LIVE


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Canal+ Dos is expected to launch on TDT in Spain on the 23rd August - ie next week.

Today, the 17th AUgust the boxes should have gone on sale.

There was talk of putting the first units in strategic commercial centers and gradually spread throughout the distribution to all areas.

Canal + Dos will be a pay channel on Premium TDT.

YOu will require another card - seperate to the current GOL TV and AXN cards, but the new Canal+ Dos card shouold be conpatiable with most existing Pay TDT recievers and PCMAI readers on TV that are currently used for the GOL TV footlabb cards.

So, they say that anyone who is a Gol TV subscriber can purchase this card and use it in their CAM or receiver without any incompatibility.

The channel is expected to cost €15 per month.
The Channel is currently offering two free months of viewing with new purchases.
It is unknown if other channel will join this line up and make the €15 go further.

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