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The best of British film-making, US independents, Hollywood blockbusters, guilty pleasures, foreign films and cult cinema. Great films you know, great films you don't.

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Film4 live_tv   14   300

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

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the media.info link icon media.info Film4 page.

Official site: See the www.film4.com link icon Film4 website.

From Wikipedia: edit Programming Film4 did not originally focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but nowadays broadcasts many mainstream Hollywood movies. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which a number of films centred around one genre, director or actor are shown. As Channel 4 also owns a film production company, Film4 Productions, it shows many of its in-house productions. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about Film4 on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: Film4 is on multiplex PSB2 in england flagscotland flagnorthernireland flagwales flag.


This channel carries a subtitles service for the deaf, hard of hearing and quiet environments.

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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Dave Lindsay
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11:07 AM

Derek Hewitson: If you receive your TV from Sudbury then many many people are in the same position, in particular with Arqiva B multiplex which carries Yesterday, Film4 and others.

All the Commercial multiplexes will remain on low power until 27th June.

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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
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shirie
9:18 PM
London

I live in NW3 and cannot receive Film 4 anymore since 22 Feb. What can I do to fix this?
Thank you

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Saturday, 10 March 2012
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Linda Miatt
12:28 PM

SO31 postcode and I have the same problem with picking up Film 4 on my Freeview + box.... it's OK if viewed just via the TV aeriel (i.e. the same aeriel that my box is plugged into).

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Dave Lindsay
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1:59 PM

Linda Miatt: Try manually tuning to channel 33 if your box allows.

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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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Derek Smith
7:21 PM

Tuesdays film "Colditz"

Before the start your announcer said "English prisoners" there was one "Scottish prisoner" would it have choked him to say "British prisoners"????????????

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Friday, 23 March 2012
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nick
7:28 PM

i am in so50 area and have also lost film4. any suyggestions???

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jb38
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8:39 PM

nick: You are indicated as being served by the Rowridge transmitter, and on checking same I dont feel that your problem will really be rectified until April 18th when the multiplex used by Film 4 etc increases its power, that is as well as changing its mux channel number being used as April 18th is a re-tuning event day.

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Sunday, 25 March 2012
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Hannah Chacko
12:04 AM

I'm in the Lincoln area and we've been avoiding the update due to folks losing channels. My OH didn't realise this and retuned tonight and now we've lost Film4 along with Yesterday and a whole bunch of other channels :(

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Hannah Chacko
12:47 AM
Lincoln

I tried resetting the TV and whatnot (according to advice).... now I only get bbc1, bbc2, bbc3, itv3, qvc, bidtv, itv2+1, 5*, 5usa, 5+1, challenge, and bbc news. Some of the other channels are there but are blank or display broken images from other channels and others are just missing :( Apparently no issues with the local transmitters...

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jb38
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9:43 PM

Hannah Chacko: Where you are located at slightly to the West of Lincoln you should be able to receive good signals from both Belmont and Waltham, the problem being that its very easy for your TV to pick up a mix from both places, what you should do is have a check up in the 800 channel ranges for duplicates of the channels that's not very good on the lower numbers, and if you find one and its OK then carry out a signal check on it for purposes of noting the mux channel number seen along with the strength indication, unless that is you also see East Midlands or Yorkshire / East Lincs indicated, if not though check the mux channel against the list below and that will indicate where the signal is coming from.

Use that same procedure on any channel that's not very good and check it against the list, as the only way you are liable to regain good reception is by resetting your TV to scrub anything stored, then manually tune in the channels known to be the best.

Belmont: 22 - 25 - 30 - 28 - 53 - 60
Waltham: 61 - 54 - 29 - 58 - 56 - 57

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