No Sky viewing card

Lakeuk

ITV1 Central W is the midlands area, you should be able to get the BBC, ITV, Film4 channels with out the need for a card.

I think Sky replaced all their card less than 3 years ago so and card you had or should of had will now be invalid.

The current cards cost £20 and will only get you Ch4, Ch5, Sky Three to add to the 100 free to air channels - Sky only guarentee the card for 2 years so if they decided after than to change or kill your card you would need to buy another one if Sky continue their rarely advertised offer.

penrhyn

Looks like all you need is a new freesat viewing card,
from the website:
already have digital satellite equipment - what else do I need?

All you need to get access to the free channels available on the digital satellite platform is a freesat viewing card which costs just £20.



Order one on 0870 240 5651.



As a prevoius poster said Sky updated their viewing cards less than 2 years ago (probably due to people hacking the old ones) as you were not on contract you would not have received one.



ITV Central is the Midlands channel (north of Watford!) its split into West and East for the local news.

pinkcloud

Thanks.

Ours wasn't Freesat though but a Sky Viewing card. We have all of the free channels. What we are missing from the original list is Channel 4, ITV 1 and TCM.

We watched TCM for a while in between installation engineers but since the second one fiddled with it it says it needs a Sky Viewing card.

A previous post has told me that ITV 1 is on 103 but is the default setting you mention. So far I've been unsuccessful in trying to change it to London.

The last post advised that Channel 4 in one of only three extra channels provided with the card.

pinkcloud

penrhyn

For what its worth, I get ITV Central E on Channel 103, and according to my EPG ITV London is on Channel 993.
Presumably my box knows where it is thus I get the appropriate ITV and BBC versions for the area (Nottingham BTW)

pinkcloud

Thanks and it all helps.

I've looked at my box and it says there is no channel on 993 (or 994 or 995).

I found elsehwere that ITV1 Central E on 103 is the ITV1 default. I eventually succeeded in carrying out all of the steps detailed by frugalmacdugal above and even did London but having selected it at the end I found it had not stored it so I hope someone will be able to tell me how to do that.

I would very much like someone to tell me about TCM.

Looks like I'll have to pay £20 for channel 4.

pinkcloud

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Hi, pinkcloud,

I've just sent you a PM with instructions but you seem to be getting there.

Strangely, London is unavailable for me as well.

The main difference with the regional channels is really only local news, weather forecasts and programmes of local interest.

pinkcloud

Hi frugalmacdugal

Thanks again. As a result of trying to find out (on Google) what ITV1 Central W is I came across London which is slightly different than the numbers you gave

frequency 10758
Polarisation V
Symbol Rate 22
FEC 5/6

and I had stored it by following your previous instructions. What I hadn't realised was that you had always to go to Services >6 to access it?

Can you not put it on a spare button?

Penryn in the post above seems to have one installed on 993 (which is spare on mine) as well as having the default on 103.

pinkcloud

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Hi, pinkcloud,

thanks for the update on frequencies, explains why I couldn't get London, though I never watch it, it's just the thought of something for nothing.

That is a more up to date list than mine so here is a link to it, might be handy for others.

pinkcloud

Hi frugalmacdugal

Your link says "ITV 1 London is currenly transmitted on EPG 963 to the whole of the UK (apart from London where its on 103)" but it isn't on 103 on mine and 963 is spare. Penrhyn above has it on 993 in addition to the default on 103. Can I not do something like that instead of having to access it through Services > 6 ?

Can anyone please help me with TCM?

pinkcloud

[Deleted User]

Hi,

the channel numbers 103, 963, 993 etc are fixed by SKY, though may be different regional channels depending on location, would be handy if could just set own preferences.