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Old 22-12-2016, 08:38
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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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Old 22-12-2016, 08:52
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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.
I don't know why there a should be a two hour delay, unless it's to align with the timezone
there ?
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Old 22-12-2016, 08:56
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BFBS and Sky Sports and BFBS radio by satellite
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Old 22-12-2016, 09:21
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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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Old 22-12-2016, 09:53
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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.
Mostly BBC and South African channels then by the looks of it.
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Old 22-12-2016, 11:13
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Mostly BBC and South African channels then by the looks of it.
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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Old 22-12-2016, 11:16
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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
there ?
It could well be because the Falklands are behind GMT. The other possibility is it gives a buffer time in case of issues with the connection. I've got visions of them downloading shows off BBC Iplayer the second they are uploaded and then playing them out from a local server but I'm sure it doesn't work that way!!
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Old 22-12-2016, 11:44
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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
That's probably because St Helena is much closer to Africa; the Falklands are on Atlantic Ocean.
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Old 22-12-2016, 12:56
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That's probably because St Helena is much closer to Africa; the Falklands are on Atlantic Ocean.
Err, well yes !
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:42
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Ascension Island gets two BFBS channels
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Old 23-12-2016, 23:49
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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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Old 24-12-2016, 00:41
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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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Old 24-12-2016, 00:46
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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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Old 24-12-2016, 06:34
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TV stations in Bermuda are affiliated with the American networks but produce their own "local" news.
Yes, despite being a British colony, Bermuda seems to look East rather than West for its media.
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Old 24-12-2016, 11:48
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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
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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Old 24-12-2016, 19:13
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Old 25-12-2016, 09:11
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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.
Akrotiri and Dhekelia receive BFBS-TV which can be viewed by those living near the bases.
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Old 25-12-2016, 13:52
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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?
I don't know why there a should be a two hour delay, unless it's to align with the timezone
there ?
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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Old 25-12-2016, 13:55
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Gives access to UK TV chanbels
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Old 25-12-2016, 14:03
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Akrotiri and Dhekelia receive BFBS-TV which can be viewed by those living near the bases.
BFBS in the sovereign base areas now comes via encrypted digital satellite receivers. They are only available to the military population.

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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Old 25-12-2016, 15:30
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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.
Looking online there are mentions of Caribbean Broadcast Network on a local cable TV system but then some links go a page with something about copyright and others to one about it being wound up so hard to tell what is going on.
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Old 25-12-2016, 17:20
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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
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?
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Old 26-12-2016, 04:57
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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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Old 27-12-2016, 21:50
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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?
BFBS is free to view in the Falklands with only a freeview box needed.

Not sure how or why you would send them back to the UK though?
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Old 28-12-2016, 12:18
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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?
When the BFBS Television service first started in West Germany in 1975, it was broadcast as an analogue signal with the same vision/sound carrier frequency spacing as used in the UK. The German analogue system used a different vision/sound spacing and so could not be received properly by a German TV set as used by the local German population.

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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