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How to get new foreign channels on sky
rodbournite
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Does any one know how to ask Sky for new channels. I'd like more European ones like RAI, DW or TVE noticias 24. Also Sky Italian have the Korean English language service yet we have two similar Chinese news channels.
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Get yourself a satellite dish looking at Hotbird and Astra 1, and a FTA satellite receiver and you will get most of those.
It's FTA most of the time on hotbird but does encrypt sometimes
It is up to those channels to apply to join the Sky EPG - Sky are highly unlikely to approach them.
DW and TV5 were just part of a normal subscription - not extra. DW left on its own accord and TV5 is still broadcasting on Sky...
As stated above both were part of normal subscription packs and TV5 is still on Sky's EPG. It is the broadcaster who chooses how they broadcast - FTA, FTV or subscription with the incentives of subscription income and possibly reductions in combined encryption/EPG listing fees. But hey as usual you do not let facts get in the way of your anti-Sky rants.
French channels are not free-to-air, and they remain on Astra 19.2E, or AB3. None is on the same satellites as Sky.
http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html