Updated - changes to Freeview channel numbers this week on September 19th 2012
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV As an update to the original plan (see Freeview channel numbers change on September 19th 2012) - the changes to Freeview this week will now be less extensive than planned, as two channels have appealed the changes.
The main changes are shown in this diagram below. You will need to do a "first time installation" to ensure the channel numbers are correct. See My Freeview box has no EPG ... or the channel line up is wrong if you don't know what to do. Another option is the list of retune instruction leaflets and manuals on the Freeview Retune - list of manuals page.
The changes are now:
- Dave and Yesterday swap over to 12 and 19
- Really and Gold (subscription) swap over to be 17 and 20
- The Food Network moves to 48 (from 49)
- The Jewellery channel moves to 49 (from 60)
- Local TV services are reserved 8 (England and Northern Ireland) and 45 (Wales and Scotland)
- RTE1, RTE2 and TG4 are reserved 51, 52 and 53 - these start on a special "mini multiplex" for Northern Ireland on Wednesday 24th October 2012.
- Argos TV starts on 55
- Text services move to 200-224: 200 BBC Red Button; 201 Teletext Holidays; 202 Rabbit; 203 Gay Rabbit; 204 1-2-1 Dating; 205 Mail Travel; 206 Sky Text.
- MHEG services move to 225-299: 225 VISION; 226 CCTV; 227 Sports Tonight; 228 Connect 1; 229 Connect 2; 230 Connect 3; 231 Racing TV; 232 The Space.
HD channels move to 101-120 The "normal" order of channels is restored to HD: 101 BBC One HD; 102 BBC HD; 103 ITV1 HD or STV HD or UTV HD; 104 Channel 4 HD; 105 S4C Cirlun. - (Not 100% sure this is confirmed)
Help with Television sets?
Sunday, 14 September 2014
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Kevin Jones9:35 AM
After the recent update my Tecnnika stbhdv2010 box is unable to get hd channels.Can this be sorted or is my box now obsolete & if so this seems unfair & seems to be another way to fleece the customer.
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MikeB5:15 PM
Kevin Jones: If you got HD channels before, why not now? You might have lost a mux somewhere, but a retune to the right transmitter should sort that.
As for Technika.... !
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Mrs Martryn5:42 PM
My Mother is 93yrs old and worried about these changes. I am not technically minded either so we are bit concerned and confused by these announcements flashing on the screen. Can you advise me what to do to complete this change or do we have to get an engineer in?
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jb387:46 PM
Mrs Martryn: If you are purely referring to the channel number changes? and "not" because you have possibly been reading comments about problems with Goodmans boxes, then the only action required is to retune your mothers TV or box.
If this does not have the desired effect, i.e: channels in the correct order, then first of all select "manufacturers reset" / "default setting" or "first time installation" prior to retuning, the three procedures mentioned all resulting in the same thing, that being to clear out all channels stored in the TV or boxes tuner prior to it being retuned.
It would be of assistance to know the brand / model of the TV or box your mother uses.
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Monday, 15 September 2014
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Kevin Jones9:44 AM
Unable to access HD channels after retune.Is there a remedy for this.Digital box is a Technika stbHDV2010
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