Does anyone know what has happend to Five (105), Five US (180) and Fiver (182) on Sky?




btw............the 'other half' posted this....................he's distraught!

i'm just up the road from you and they are still showing all the usual crap american import crime shows!!!

what message are you getting on the screen? might be able to help you if we knew...

when he tries 105, 180/1/2/3 we get a red strap come up 'channel unavailable'

apparently they're back - so half a job's relaxing now!

check that your sky card is correctly in the slot - and in the correct slot.

when a sky box is turned off (by a power cut) and is turned back on without a sky card in, channel 104,105 180 etc do not appear in the channel numbers, and you get the red strap saying channel unavailable. also, you r bbc1 region defaults to London, and your ITV defaults to Central - god knows why they are different regions..!?!?!?

so take the card out, make sure it is the right way round (the arrow on the card show which way round it should be inserted), and make sure it goes into the Sky View Card slot - NOT the interactive card slot....wait a few seconds for the box to update the regional data and bingo bango bongo c5 should be there...

Sorry to sound ignorant - but can you subscribe to Sky ?? Just not long moved out - and have had the delight of loosing TV with telemicro- however have been informed rightly or wrongly that the freeview channels will be back on. Was also informed that the other company we then thought of going too "Superbeam" - was also next on the hit list. So still working my way through DVD collection - until i know what is a safe investment.

Kat x

yes uesd an UK address and bank account and have no problem

Sounds good - but how did you set it up or what did you require???

When we moved a few weeks back - i just left our Sky box / card in our house in scotland.

Kat x

was strange..............the power did go off briefly earlier - I forgot I couldn't have the washing machine, plancha & fryer on at the same time - but that was hours ago & the channels were Ok when we re-booted (or whatever you call it)
then suddenly, just before he panicked & posted the Q, they just went!

then - just as suddenly - they came back again!

They are all still available through your own dish and decoder, unlikely to be available ever again from the rebroadcasters. So you will need a dish big enough for your area (if you are near Alicante, that will probably mean a 2.4 metre dish) and a Sky box and card. You will have to source those locally or from Ebay, as Sky cannot supply to a non UK address.

Can you get your Sky box and card back from your old house and set up your account again payed from a UK bank? If you can that is the simplest way forward.

remember that bbc,itv and c4 are free and require no subscription at all to sky.
five, five us fiver, sultana sports news, sky three all require a freetoview FTV sky card - pay for it get these channels with no other monthly payments!
five will be available totally free by the end of the year - but dont know the specifics or signal availability yet. five us and fiver will not be going free for the foreseeable future.

if youare unable to get your old box from you olf house, and you need a new sky box and are getting a sky subscription, consider going for a sky+box - the recording functions are free with any sky subscritpion - and it is a most excellent bit of kit - you will need ensure you have a minimum of a doulbe output LNB on the dish and two cables from the dish to the sky+ box.
becarful when getting a sky card from ebay (if they are even allowed to sell them on there - ithink they are removed quickly!) as to gain access to the sky card account you will need the details for the card - like the uK address andname of the card holder.
best to try and get your old card, and start up you r old subscription again. failing that, get someone in the UK to order a card on your behalf....

well where you moving to frist , need to know as the dish size are bigger here from 90cm - 3 meter dish , see you in the East off spain so may need 2 meter dish in you area pm me and i give you guy tel no that will help you out as i am way in Ireland UK and sweden over next 2 weeks

and for freeview channels will be back on Wont happen none off the uk channels and northen channels will be back on any system most like you see outher system like telemiroc going off in next few days to weeks
been told you see couple radio station aswell hitting dead air aswell
there big clamp down on copywrite infringement with spain and many place around EU
and there License
jurdy

How I have missed my Skyplus. Down to watching a Lindsay Lohan teen flick last night so times ARE bad! Never mind should be up and running soon. Got a new box from Melksham Satellites in the UK which a friend then brought out for us, so just waiting for it to be fitted. Sad isn´t it!

Kat - don´t do anything - We are on Superbeam (chaps who owns property had it installed) and yes we have lost a lot of channels - just bear in mind that it is actually illegal to have Sky in Spain (no matter what anyone tells you) so save your pennies!