Post by Bunter on Feb 10th, 2014 at 4:52pm
ITV AND CHANNEL FOUR SWITCH LIKELY TONIGHT
All remaining ITV One channels are expected to move to from Astra 1N to Astra 2E in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 11th. February.
SES Astra, normally one of the most secretive of companies, publishes weekly ephemeris data on its website, predicting the exact position in orbit of all its satellites. That is, except Astra 1N. Position data for this satellite is only given till Wednesday, 12th. February, indicating that it will be emptied of channels and will start to its new home to the west shortly after Wednesday. Channel Four's group of channels may also move tonight. At the latest, it looks as though all free public service channels will be moved to the new UK spot beam within the next 72 hours. The switch will add to the misery for thousands of UK expatriates in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, shortly after losing all BBC services.
The sole BBC channel which can be received easily throughout Europe is the Winter Olympics Red Button channel 978.
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All remaining ITV One channels are expected to move to from Astra 1N to Astra 2E in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 11th. February.
SES Astra, normally one of the most secretive of companies, publishes weekly ephemeris data on its website, predicting the exact position in orbit of all its satellites. That is, except Astra 1N. Position data for this satellite is only given till Wednesday, 12th. February, indicating that it will be emptied of channels and will start to its new home to the west shortly after Wednesday. Channel Four's group of channels may also move tonight. At the latest, it looks as though all free public service channels will be moved to the new UK spot beam within the next 72 hours. The switch will add to the misery for thousands of UK expatriates in Spain, France, Italy and Germany, shortly after losing all BBC services.
The sole BBC channel which can be received easily throughout Europe is the Winter Olympics Red Button channel 978.
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