Thursday 26 March 2009

My Rowridge Freeview Settings

Here are my Freeview tunings as of 25 March 2009.

The following channels do not currently work

ITV 1, ITV 2, ITV 3, ITV 4, Channel 4, Channel 4 +1, E4, More 4, Setanta Sports 1, Heart (radio), Rabbit, Smile TV 2, Teletext

name mplexid serviceid
QVC 3 13120
4Music 6 25664
bid tv 3 14272
smileTV 5 22400
TOPUP Anytime4 6 27328
GEMSTV1 3 15840
SuperCasino 3 14560
NETPLAY TV 3 14432
CNN 3 15648
Russia Today 6 27456
Community 4 19968
Teachers TV 3 15808
Television X 3 15232
Teletext 2 8568
Rabbit 2 8634
TeletextCasino 3 16128
BBC Red Button 1 4479
Directgov 2 8576
301 4 19456
302 4 19520
303 4 19584
305 4 16768
BBC Radio 1 4 18496
BBC Radio 1 Xtra 4 18176
BBC Radio 2 4 18560
BBC Radio 3 4 18624
BBC Radio 4 4 18688
BBC Radio 5 Live 4 17920
BBC Radio 7 4 18112
BBC Asian Net 4 18240
BBC World Sv 4 18304
Ttext Holidays 3 14784
smileTV2 3 15712
1-2-1 Dating 3 14816
QUEST 3 14498
PARTYLAND 3 14368
SMOOTH RADIO 6 26368
Kerrang Radio 6 26304
talkSPORT 5 22592
Premier Radio 5 22976
Absolute Radio 5 23104
Heart 2 8772
The Hits Radio 6 26560
Magic 6 26624
Q Radio 6 26688
heat 6 26240
Gems TV 6 27200
Lottery Xtra 6 27264
Sky Text 5 23680
Setanta Sports 1 3 16096
Virgin1 6 25856
BBC FOUR 4 16832
BBC THREE 1 4351
BBC Radio 6 Music 4 18048
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 4 17984
CBBC Channel 1 4671
CBeebies 4 16960
Channel 4 2 8384
Five 3 12866
CITV 3 16032
Dave 5 22272
E4 2 8448
Film4 6 27136
Fiver 3 12928
Yesterday 6 25792
Ideal World 6 25920
ITV2 2 8325
ITV3 2 8294
ITV4 2 8353
Kiss 6 26176
ITV1 2 8270
More 4 2 8442
BBC NEWS 24 1 4415
Sky Sports News 5 22144
BBC Parliament 4 17024
Channel 4 +1 2 8452
Dave ja vu 6 27392
E4+1 5 22336
ITV2 +1 6 27072
Sky News 5 22080
Sky3 5 22208
Smash Hits 3 14592
BBC ONE 1 4163
BBC TWO 1 4227
TMF 6 25728
Five USA 3 12992

More on Rowridge Retune Nightmare

Looks like a lot of people have complained about losing channels. Apparently so far about 1% of the 500,000 households have called the helpline.

Friends of mine have had similar issues. One lives close to me and lost the same set of ITV related channels. Another lives near Salisbury (further from the transmitter) and has lost all channels except CBeebies!

I imagine a lot of people (like us) haven’t complained yet, in the hope that service will get better by the weekend. We need to get as many people as possible calling in, as they don’t seem to think there’s a real problem!

Here are my current channel settings, as requested by Ade, in case anyone wants to check their MythTV settings.

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Rowridge Retune

Notification of the changing of frequencies for Freeview channels broadcast from the Rowridge transmitter on the Isle of Wight came through a few weeks back.

I think I’ve picked up all the usual channels, but initial results in Poole are poor…

Not working:

  • ITV 1
  • ITV 2
  • ITV 3
  • ITV 4
  • Channel 4
  • Channel 4 +1
  • E4
  • More 4
  • Setanta Sports 1
  • Heart (radio)
  • Rabbit
  • Smile TV 2
  • Teletext

All the other channels (at least those that are broadcasting at midnight) seem to be alright. I could have quite happily done without “Premier Christian Radio” or “Teletext 1-2-1 Dating”, but all the ITV channels?!

Hopefully they’ll sort this out soon and restore the good reception I’ve been enjoying for the last few years.