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The fun loving home of some of the biggest dramas, soaps, entertainment shows and movies from the U.K and U.S.

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As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

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5STAR   32 (90%) 128 131

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

Official site: See the www.channel5.com link icon 5STAR website.

From Wikipedia: On 11 April 2011, 5 reduced its broadcast hours to 1300 to 0000, replacing the lost hours with more teleshopping. Milkshake programmes for children aged 7 and under are no longer broadcast on this channel because of this reduction, but Milkshake continues to broadcast on Channel 5.7 On 18 January 2012, 5 received its highest-ever rating for the channel since it launched in 2006. 5 began broadcasting Live from the House, the one hour live feed for Big Brother that airs after every eviction. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about 5STAR on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: 5STAR is on multiplex COM4 in england flagscotland flagnorthernireland flagwales flag.

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Thursday, 30 January 2014
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MikeB
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9:12 PM

Kevinowen34@gmail: You might note that this site has nothing to do with 5*....

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Saturday, 11 April 2020
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mark white
10:00 PM

hi , cant get 5star in Andover and the other ch5 channels..? is this normal?

Mark

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Chris.SE
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11:22 PM

mark white:

There aren't any reported transmitter problems at this time, I assume you are receiving from Hannington (but a full postcode would be needed to look at your predicted reception). There was some talk of atmospherics - Tropospheric Ducting - disrupting reception over the bank holiday - see How clear skies and fine weather can affect your TV reception | Help receiving TV and radio and the linked page.
If you lose signal and try retuning you may get signals from a different transmitter and lose them again as the propagation changes, and then you'll have to retune again and maybe unsuccessful in getting your regular signals back until the disruption subsides.

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