Talking Pictures TV

Talking Pictures TV is the home of Vintage and Classic Programming targeting the over 65 demographic with a range of Films and Entertainment from the 1930's onwards. We are the home of the good old fashioned black and white afternoon film, available throughout the day.

Main TV standard-definiton channels

How to Watch: Talking Pictures TV

Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: analogue, 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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Main TV standard-definiton channels

	Channel name _{arrow_drop_down}	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	Talking Pictures TV			81 (90%)	328	306

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

Freeview multiplex: Talking Pictures TV is on multiplex COM6 in england flag

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Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Kayj
7:31 AM
Worthing

Chris.SE: many thanks, it all looks rather bleak but postcode is: BN11 4DE. Let me have your verdict please!

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StevensOnln1

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11:42 AM

Kayj: It looks like you're not in a good location for any and would be far better off getting a box and installed, rather than spending a lot of time/money/effort on trying to receive a satisfactory .

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Chris.SE

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11:56 PM

Kayj:

When your first said Worthing BN11, I knew it was a "tricky" area from previous experience. According to the Detailed Coverage Checker you are definitely in an "awkward" location!!

I tend to agree with StevensOnln1 but, two points.
A number of modern sets have built-in tuners so all you need is the and LNB.
2nd, the predictors aren't always 100% accurate. It does give the 3 transmitters I mentioned as "possibles" but none of them predict very reliable signals for the 6 main muxes.
, the closest, gives the best for (only) the PSBs.
is possibly the best for COMs4-6 with VP (vertical) a close second for those COMs and better for the PSBs.

Have a look at your neighbours aerials and see which way they are pointing may give you an idea whether and what is worth bothering. From your location details are -
Findon is bearing 336 degrees (~NNW) rods vertcial.
Whitehawk Hill is bearing 84 degrees (6 degrees N of due E), rods vertical
Rowridge is bearing 256 degrees (14 degrees S of due W) rods vertical for the most reliable from Rowridge. Some may have the rods horizontal (and maybe get COM7) but the COMs are likely to be least reliable.

You could try manual tuning (or checking) for Rowridge's UHF (if your is actually pointing that way) because with automatic tuning as the signals from all the transmitters are likely to be variable it may incorrectly pickup signals other than Rowridge which will be very unreliable with an aerial not pointing at them.
In the order PSBs1-3, COMs 4-6 the UHF channels are as follows -
Rowridge , , , , , (COM7 is on if the rods are horizontal)
Whitehawk Hill , , , , ,
Findon , ,

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Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Kayj
7:01 PM

Chris.SE: many thanks for all of this useful information and to Steven.

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