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Sky News is an unrivalled, world class breaking news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to news broadcasting. As the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel, Sky News has built a deserved reputation for being the first to break major news as well as offering insight and analysis on the latest stories. It is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live across all its platforms - TV, mobile, online, radio and iPad.

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How to Watch: Sky News


Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

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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Sky News live_tv   233 (90%)   202

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 Sky News page.

Official site: See the news.sky.com link icon Sky News website.

From Wikipedia: The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK and Ireland. Sky News has built its schedule around the main anchors with appointment to view broadcasts regularly being supplemented by landmark broadcasts. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about Sky News on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: Sky News is on multiplex COM5 in england flagscotland flagnorthernireland flagwales flag.

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Saturday, 1 December 2012
Friday, 19 July 2013
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Kevin dcruze
8:05 AM

How do I get sky news free on my ipad?

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Briantist
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9:49 AM

Kevin dcruze: click on Watch on the panel above or use the CatchupTv app.

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Thursday, 24 October 2013
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Anthony
10:01 AM
Hartlepool

My postcode is TS26 0BH. Sky News (channel 82) reception has previously been fine but now I keep losing it. I keep getting No signal. In the last couple of days I have tried a full auto retune. The first half dozen times this did not work (only 80 TV channels were found), but then it did (100 TV channels were found) and reception was restored. But now it has gone again. So, in summary, it keeps coming and going - it seems worse in the morning. I have 4 digital TVs on the same aerial (with signal boosters) and they are all affected the same. So far as I can see, all other channels are O.k.

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Anthony
12:31 PM
Hartlepool

P.S. Contrary to earlier comment - all of multiplex com 5 channels are lost.

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Dave Lindsay
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2:50 PM

Anthony: Whilst it could potentially be single frequency interference, I will make one observation.

If you haven't had your "old" aerial replaced, it could be a Group A one. Of all Bilsdale's channels, COM5 is on the highest, it being C46. This is furthest "out of group" and therefore potentially your aerial may be least sensitive to it.

I covered this one previously:

Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice

Basically a Group A aerial is designed to be sensitive to Group A frequencies which are the bottom third. COM5 and other COM channels from Bilsdale are in the middle third of the band (Group B) and so the sensitivity isn't as great there.

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Friday, 29 November 2013
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Mar
12:44 PM

I have been viewing skynews on my TV set with indoor aerial for years .ow but recently it does not show as a channel to watch.

I retuned my TV to update setting but still no luck. Skynews appears to have disappeared.

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

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Mar
12:46 PM

further to my last email, I located in Fareham, Hampshire, po14 postcode.

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Dave Lindsay
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1:12 PM

Mar: If your aerial can be set horizontally or vertically then it should be vertical - see:

http://farm5.static.flick….gif

If your TV has manual tuning then use it to try and restore COM5 multiplex (which carries Pick TV, Sky News and others). Tune to UHF channel 22.

Whilst on the manual tuning screen enter/select C22 (482MHz) but don't press the button to scan/add channels. Instead, wait and it should give a readout of strength/quality. This should allow you to position the aerial where the best signal is received, although you will need to ensure that the other four standard definition channels (and one HD channel, if applicable) are also good.

The channels to look at are:

PSB1 BBC One
PSB2 ITV
PSB3 BBC One HD
COM4 ITV3
COM5 Pick TV
COM6 4Music

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Saturday, 30 November 2013
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rob castle
10:12 AM

North Yorkshire near hutton le hole has lost sky news or should say it breaks up totally.
retuned twice and once it ended up on 803 not 82
now on retune it goes to 82 and is break up totally.
unwatchable

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