How to tune in extra BBC Channels

As the BBC is due to go free-to-air on the 10th (fingers-crossed), I thought it might be useful to have a handy thread for those newbies who will wish to add the free channels, but don't know how.

To add the BBC channels to your "Other Channels" option, do the following.

With your digibox turned on, press the "Services" button (near the top of the remote).

Select number 4 (System Setup), and then 4 again ("Add Channels").

In the appropriate fields enter the following (you move through the fields using the up and down arrow keys).


In the Frequency field enter: 10.773,

The next three fields are toggle fields, i.e. using the left and right arrows will change the value.

Toggle Polarisation to : H
Toggle Symbol Rate to: 22000
Toggle FEC to : 5/6

Then select the last button - Find Channels.

After a few seconds the channels should appear. The channels on this frequency should be - BBC One England, BBC Two England, BBC News 24, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC Three, BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Cymru.

Use the Yellow button to place a tick beside each one and press "Select". These channels will now be stored.

You can view them by pressing the "Services" button, then 6 ("Other Channels"), use the arrow keys to move to the channel you want and press "Select".


To view the channels below, repeat the procedure using the details provided.


10788 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6

BBC One West Midlands, BBC One North West, BBC One East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, BBC One Yorkshire & North Midlands, BBC One East Midlands, BBC One East England.


10803 H SR 22000 FEC 5/6

BBC One Wales, BBC Two Wales, BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland, BBC Two Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2*, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 FM*, BBC Radio 4 LW, BBC Radio Scotland FM, BBC Radio Wales FM, BBC Radio Ulster FM, BBC Asian Network, BBC World Service Europe, BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra, BBC World Service Extra, BBC 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music, BBC 7, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.


10818 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6

BBC One West England, BBC One South East, BBC One South England, BBC One South West, BBC One North East & Cumbria, BBC One Oxford.


10847 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6

BBC One Cambridge, BBC One Channel Islands, BBC Parliament.


12441 V SR 27500 FEC 2/3
BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 FM

(On the 6th August, due to complaints from Europe, the BBC moved R2 and R4FM to a wide beam so it can be receieved by ex-pats)



****As rightly suggested by Sceptre, I'd just like to make people aware that sometimes when too many channels are stored in "Other Channels" they can mysteriously all disappear ! This seems to be a bug in Sky's software that they've never bothered to fix. Different people seem to recommend different numbers of Other Channels to store, but I've never had a problem with anything up to 30. If they are deleted, don't panic - you just have to go through the hassle of storing them again.


Happy viewing !!!

(Mod edit: added new BBC Radio 2 and 4 FM freq and New BBC Parliament freq.)