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TV in the British Overseas Territories
We've already got a thread about Gibraltar of course. But what about the other British Overseas Territories?
Can you receive UK TV and radio in any of the other Overseas Territories? Can you access things like BBC iplayer? From conversations on Facebook I do know the Falkland Islands get the main UK TV programmes about 2 hours after we do, although I'm not sure if that is via satellite or undersea cable. Is there anyone on here from any of the Overseas Territories, or has spent any length of time there? |
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From conversations on Facebook I do know the Falkland Islands get the main UK TV programmes about 2 hours after we do, although I'm not sure if that is via satellite or undersea cable.
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BFBS and Sky Sports and BFBS radio by satellite
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Here's a TV Guide for Saint Helena covering 17th-23rd Dec.
http://www.sure.co.sh/tvguide/new1.pdf They get BBC Brit, BBC Lifestyle and BBC World, plus a few Sport/Movie channels and a couple of documentary channels. |
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Here's a TV Guide for Saint Helena covering 17th-23rd Dec.
http://www.sure.co.sh/tvguide/new1.pdf They get BBC Brit, BBC Lifestyle and BBC World, plus a few Sport/Movie channels and a couple of documentary channels. |
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Mostly BBC and South African channels then by the looks of it.
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I don't know why there a should be a two hour delay, unless it's to align with the timezone
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That service seems to be run by Multichoice RSA, the parent company of M-Net, SuperSport, DSTV etc, though none of the satellite footprints of their birds gets anywhere near the Falklands
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That's probably because St Helena is much closer to Africa; the Falklands are on Atlantic Ocean.
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Ascension Island gets two BFBS channels
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TV stations in Bermuda are affiliated with the American networks but produce their own "local" news. Here, for instance, is the news from VSB, Bermuda's NBC affiliate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUWsIEtr-M Even though Bermuda is in the Atlantic time zone, the stations there show all U.S. programming live, so a 7 p.m. ET show is seen at 8 p.m. in Bermuda. |
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I just returned from our home on Gran Canaria and use https://www.filmon.com/ to watch UK TV when the urge to do so comes on.
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Possibly out-of-date, but this was my findings a few years back (occasionally updated since) for digital terrestrial: http://www.terrestrialtv.uk/dtt.cgi?pg=overseas
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TV stations in Bermuda are affiliated with the American networks but produce their own "local" news.
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Possibly out-of-date, but this was my findings a few years back (occasionally updated since) for digital terrestrial: http://www.terrestrialtv.uk/dtt.cgi?pg=overseas
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Do any of them get CNBC or Bloomberg?
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Thanks for that. Interesting to note that there is no TV in the British Virgin Isles, perhaps they get their TV from the US virgin islands or Puerto Rico.
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From conversations on Facebook I do know the Falkland Islands get the main UK TV programmes about 2 hours after we do, although I'm not sure if that is via satellite or undersea cable.
Is there anyone on here from any of the Overseas Territories, or has spent any length of time there? Quote:
I don't know why there a should be a two hour delay, unless it's to align with the timezone
there ? That means you can watch live events as they happen and not worry about seeing the news to ruin sports results etc, but don't need to be home at 1530 to watch Coronation Street. The best of Channel 4, 5, Watch, Sky 1 and Sky Atlantic shows are compiled together in a channel called BFBS extra. BFBS sport is an amalgamation of various Sky sports channels and BT sport channels Forces TV is another amalgamated channel, and is the same as the one you can find on Sky in the UK. All of these channels are received by satellite at a ground station, and then broadcast around the island as digital terrestrial channels received by freeview boxes. Although primarily aimed at the armed forces the above channels are available to anyone who is within receiving distance of the transmitters. Many of the inhabitants also subscribe to the KTV satellite service which offers around 35 TV channels. Hope that helps |
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www.viewtelly.com
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Akrotiri and Dhekelia receive BFBS-TV which can be viewed by those living near the bases.
BFBS channels were originally broadcast terrestrially in Cyprus without encryption which meant that anyone close enough to the transmitters could receive the broadcasts. Local TV companies complained heavily, as they had paid for TV rights to broadcast sports ie Premier league in the region but non entitled families close to the bases were watching on BFBS fro free rather than subscribing to their service. |
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Thanks for that. Interesting to note that there is no TV in the British Virgin Isles, perhaps they get their TV from the US virgin islands or Puerto Rico.
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I have spent some time in the Falklands, due to the large military presence there TV coverage is quite good, BFBS broadcast a range of programmes. BBC1, BBC2 and ITV are all broadcast in real time and with a time shift (like a +1 channel in the UK) the timeshift channel varies between +3 and +4 hours depending on time of year (the Falklands don't have daylight savings time like the UK)
That means you can watch live events as they happen and not worry about seeing the news to ruin sports results etc, but don't need to be home at 1530 to watch Coronation Street. The best of Channel 4, 5, Watch, Sky 1 and Sky Atlantic shows are compiled together in a channel called BFBS extra. BFBS sport is an amalgamation of various Sky sports channels and BT sport channels Forces TV is another amalgamated channel, and is the same as the one you can find on Sky in the UK. All of these channels are received by satellite at a ground station, and then broadcast around the island as digital terrestrial channels received by freeview boxes. Although primarily aimed at the armed forces the above channels are available to anyone who is within receiving distance of the transmitters. Many of the inhabitants also subscribe to the KTV satellite service which offers around 35 TV channels. Hope that helps ![]()
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I believe that TV stations from the U.S. Virgin Islands are also available in the British Virgin Islands.
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Very interesting read. Are all these channels free to view or is there any subscription required? If not could we not see them rebroadcast back to UK?
![]() ![]() Not sure how or why you would send them back to the UK though? |
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Very interesting read. Are all these channels free to view or is there any subscription required? If not could we not see them rebroadcast back to UK?
![]() ![]() There was a small industry in modifying local TV sets to the UK spec so that they could receive BFBS - probably says a lot about the respective content quality of the German and UK television services. |
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