In message , John Williamson
writes



I've found that if you forget to tell my Bush Freesat box the postcode,
you can get all sorts of strange "local" stations.

Any idea which model it is? I've got one, and from what I could see, it
definitely did need a post code. If there's a fiddle, I'd like to try
it!

I'm in S Bucks, but I like to watch the North East BBC and ITV local
news. With Freesat, on channels 101 and 103, you get the BBC1 and ITV1
channels appropriate to your postcode. Although you also get all the
other regional BBC1s on channel numbers in the 900s, the only other ITV1
region is London, on 977.

So.....
In order to get both the NE regional BBC1 and ITV1 plus the correct ones
for London, I entered the Newcastle code NE1 1AA. The NE BBC and ITV
then appear on channels 101 and 103, and I can then still watch London
BBC1 and ITV1 on 950 and 977.

This seems to be one of the most comprehensive lists of all the channels
available on Freesat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...els_on_Freesat

Of course, on Free-to-air sat, you get all the regional ITV channels.




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Ian