Eurosport

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Blockf01

Original Poster:

29 posts

163 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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Just read in Daily Mail that Sky may lose 12 channels with Eurosport being one. Discovery say Sky "refuses to pay a fair price " Sky say they are asking to much. This could happen from 31/1/2017.

Sorry for no link but not good at this, but it's on page 75 of today's paper.

E36GUY

5,906 posts

219 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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This will be a monstrous pain the arse if it happens.

Printertosh

564 posts

169 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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German Eurosport for everyone then with radio le mans for commentary? (available via freesat rather than sky)

Storer

5,024 posts

216 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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Also loseing all Discovery channels to.

Not much point in Sky TV if that happens

Leithen

10,931 posts

268 months

Friday 27th January 2017
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Thread here.

struttob

345 posts

150 months

Monday 30th January 2017
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Printertosh said:
German Eurosport for everyone then with radio le mans for commentary? (available via freesat rather than sky)
Where is that on Freesat ?

Bob

old'uns

543 posts

134 months

Monday 30th January 2017
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on the other Astra satellite....19.2E Astra 1..

https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-1KR-1L-1M-1N.html

plenty of threads about what you need

something else to play with....search for le mans, move the pointer to your campsite, find the satellite on the list and it'll give you general direction...mainly roughly parallel with Mulsanne straight
http://www.dishpointer.com/

Edited by old'uns on Monday 30th January 21:18

Printertosh

564 posts

169 months

Tuesday 31st January 2017
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struttob said:
Where is that on Freesat ?

Bob
I think the above covers it quite well. smile

Here's what I posted a couple of years back too incase that's any good for you:

For easier positioning use a Sky Satellite Box, connect it to TV and place TV so you can see the screen while you move the dish about:

With a Sky HD box - press services button on remote, then spanner symbol, then signal, this should show you strength bars and network i.d. / transport stream codes once the dish is fixed correctly. After a while the sky will reset so you'll have to go through the process of getting it back up on screen via services button again!

With an older sky box - press services button, 4 system setup, 6 signal test to show codes and strength of signal. Again after a while the sky will reset so you'll have to go through the process of getting it back up on screen via services button again!

Watch out for these network id's and transport stream codes while adjusting dish, once they lock gently adjust the dish to get best signal strength / quality

Astra 2 at 28.2'E
(sky with british eurosport - you'll need a sky card linked to the box to get any pay sky channels/ uk eurosport,
free ones will appear anyway on a sky box or a freesat box)
Network ID is 0002
Transport Stream is 07d4

Astra 1 at 19.2'E (for german eurosport - once you've positioned the dish you'll need to input: Frequency - 12226 H, FEC - 27500 manually on the freesat box and maybe enable non freesat channels via the menu)
Network id = 0001
Transport Stream = 042c

Hope this helps anyone who's a bit stuck smile

chrisr111r

188 posts

130 months

Tuesday 31st January 2017
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I lost Eurosport when removing the family pack from sky last year (god knows why it's not in the sports pack) and was thinking of adding family back so i get eurosport back again, but not much point now I guess! Don't really watch much of the others apart from the occasional mythbusters and wheeler dealers, so it won't be a big loss i guess

chrisr111r

188 posts

130 months

Tuesday 31st January 2017
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Storer

5,024 posts

216 months

Tuesday 31st January 2017
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You can get a Eurosport app for your iPad (other inferior devices are available) or iPhone.

I stay in a private house in Le Mans which has wifi so not castrated by the service provider!!!

chasingracecars

1,696 posts

98 months

Tuesday 31st January 2017
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Indeed!! I spent 40 mins on the phone to sky today explaining all the problems.

Sky! crashing weekly,

Discovery and Eurosport potential loss.

F1 was part of legacy HD pack now as on SkyQ I have to have Sky Sports.

The have lost the ashes cricket! To BT Sport!

They don't show enough rugby!

Its £70 a month for a few channels that you don't get on Freesat. Still going to weigh this up though. Plus the fact that we are actually only going to see 4 races (Other commitments or its on C4) that are only on SkyF1 over the year we may cancel all together.

perdu

4,884 posts

200 months

Wednesday 1st February 2017
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And breathe

I've just had a banner announcement on Sky

Discovery Channel and Eurosport WILL be broadcast on Sky as usual

Who knew?

Storer

5,024 posts

216 months

Wednesday 1st February 2017
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Wonder who flinched first????



chasingracecars

1,696 posts

98 months

Wednesday 1st February 2017
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Given it took me over 40 mins to get through to the cancel line yesterday I bet sky wet themselves with the number of people that wanted out!