Email From FIVE re Freesat

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not
hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your interest in Five.

Yours sincerely

Ian
VIEWER ADVISOR


Please note that the contact details for Five Customer Services are as
follows:

Telephone: 0845 7 05 05 05 / 020
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"Commander Gideon" wrote in message
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See Channel 5 thread on Digital Spy Freesat Forum

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...=918127&page=4


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Michael Chare

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:15 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

Rejoice. Good news is a rare event in these times of doom and gloom.

Oh I do not agree, if freesat was the only game in town for me, I'd be a bit
miffed at no five us. Often the first run of us series do not have AD and
this seems to appear mysteriously on re runs on five us.

Brian

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"Scott" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:15 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

Rejoice. Good news is a rare event in these times of doom and gloom.

Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT free
to air!

On 3 Nov, 22:44, J G Miller wrote:

Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404


Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder then?
I was under the impression from another thread that C5 was joining a
BBC transponder. (Perhaps it's BBC via BSkyB...)

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:48:38 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT free
to air!

So can I get that on my Panny Freesat telly? It can receive
non-Freesat FTA channels too.


Marky P.

"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:48:38 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT
free
to air!

So can I get that on my Panny Freesat telly? It can receive
non-Freesat FTA channels too.

I don't think it is on the Freesat EPG yet but if you can manually tune it
on your box then it is labelled as 6335!