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We’re seeing reports from site visitors and show listeners reporting problems with missing channels such as ITV2, ITV3 and the channel 4 channels on Freeview. Here’s what’s happened…

Channel 4 started running a “+1 service” on Freeview Channel 13 in August. This has meant a reshuffle of channel numbers on Freeview Multiplex 2 (the multiplex carrying the ITV and Channel 4 channels). It seems that some people have seen a loss of ITV2/ITV3 as a result of this reshuffle. The advice is to perform a full re-scan of channels on your Freeview receiver (from your on-screen menu). This should rebuild your channel list, and get Channel 4+1 onto Channel 13, and the ITV channels back in place.

Top Up TV has dropped the price of its Anytime box to £99.99 (saving £40). Not a bad price for a dual-tuner Freeview hard-disk recorder. You’ll need to pay £10 a month to get access to up to 100 hours of non-Freeview content that that’s captured overnight. See our Top Up TV Anytime page.

It’s the first of August, and time for the latest FrequencyCast Podcast. Here’s what’s in show number 17, now online. In this latest show, here’s what Carl and Pete explore:

• Focus on Broadband: In this show’s Focus section, we look at how to choose a provider, how to get it installed, and some broadband extras.
• News: The fight for your football viewing, 10 new DAB stations coming in 2008, BBC’s iPlayer, some new digital TV channels, and the demise of an old friend.
• New gear - Podcasting kits and rapping ringtones.
• Your questions - BBC FreeSat, broadband distance problems, Revo digital radios, BT Vision and the death of Net radio.

You can listen to show 17 online, or download it to your MP3 player from www.frequencycast.co.uk/cast17.html.

We’d like your votes on what you’d like to hear us cover in the next show. Please vote at www.frequencycast.co.uk

Share and enjoy!

Carl, Pete and the FrequencyCast team

FrequencyCast Show number seventeen features:

• Sporting news - BT Vision Sport launches, and Sky and Virgin are fighting for your Footy viewing
• Channel 4 DAB - 10 channels of national digital radio on the way.
• FOCUS: Broadband: How to choose a provider, how to get it installed, and some broadband extras.
• New gear - Podcasting kits and rapping ringtones

You can listen to show 17 online, or download it to your MP3 player from http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/cast17.html

 

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