Loading ...In a post made by Freesat (we hope its them!) yesterday on digitalspy, Freesat have confirmed that all BBC and ITV regions presently missing from the EPG line up will be available by “end of June”.
From comments made on our ‘have your say on freesat‘ blog, regionalisation was defiantly one of the main areas of discussion, so this promise goes a long way to improving the public opinion of the new service.
Freesat blamed the absence of all regions on “technical constraints associated with co-existence on the satellite platform”.
They added: “If you are in an area with a regional service that is not available yet, your temporary default is BBC London and ITV Central West. When your region becomes available, it will automatically become your default.”
This is absolutely fantastic news, yes we accept some will say that they should have been available from launch, but atleast now, within a month or so they’ll be up and running. Details of the regions below:
Services available from launch:
BBC
BBC One London
BBC One Channel Islands
BBC One East (W)
BBC One Northern Ireland (957)
BBC One Scotland
BBC One Wales
BBC Two England
BBC Two Northern Ireland (969)
BBC Two Scotland
BBC Two Wales
ITV
Ulster
STV Scottish East
STV Scottish West
ITV1 Wales
ITV1 Border England
ITV1 Central West
ITV1 Granada
ITV1 Anglia East
Channel TV
STV Grampian North
These following services are being prioritised, and will be available by the end of June:
BBC
BBC One West
BBC One South East
BBC One South
BBC One South West
BBC One N.E & C
BBC One Oxford
BBC One West Midlands
BBC One North West
BBC one Yorks & Lincs
BBC One Yorks
BBC One East Midlands
BBC One East (E)
ITV
ITV1 West
ITV1 Central East
ITV1 Westcountry
ITV1 Central South
ITV1 Border Scotland
ITV1 Meridian South East
ITV1 Meridian North
ITV1 Meridian East
ITV1 Meridian South
ITV1 Yorkshire West
ITV1 Yorkshire East
ITV1 Central South West
ITV1 Anglia West
ITV1 Anglia South
ITV1 Tyne Tees South
ITV1 Tyne Tees North
May 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
So when will ITV1 London be available? And what about ITV1 Thames Valley? (Or maybe that’s called ITV1 Central South on satellite?)
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Whenever you own an FTA tuner (non Freesat nor Sky branded) you can get all the regional stations of BBC and ITV plus all the other Freesat and non Freesat non encrypted TV and radiostations. If, on top you own a HD set, you can also access BBC HD and ITV HD. However, getting ITV HD is not so obvious and needs some fiddling and technical know how. The only thing you miss out is a revolutionary EPG service and the interactive applications which will be on offer on Freesat later on. It’s up to the free market to decide whether this all is worth waiting for or not.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
[…] ITV Regions - As you may have noticed, not all ITV regions are available at present, with many receiving ITV London, despite what postcode you type in at initial Freesat Digital Box setup. The other regions should be available the second week of June, we make that the 9th, so we shall see. Read the previous blog post on ITV regions here. […]
July 6th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I have a sky dish and understand that I can use this dish and LMB with a bbc/itv freesat box, but do I need to move the dish?
Thank you.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
It’s the 8th of July and this does not seem to have happened yet.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hello Folks
Does anyone know when BBC North East will be added to the Freesat line-up?
I’ve trawled throughout all of the available programmes available with Humax and it is not to be found. Any info will be helpful. thanks