Five 'cleared for Freesat launch'

[Nibb]

Five 'cleared for Freesat launch'

Thursday, July 24 2008, 12:32 BST
By Dave West, Media Correspondent

Five has resolved rights issues and will announce a Freesat launch date shortly.

Freesat managing director Emma Scott said: "Five are coming on this year and we are hoping for an announcement shortly. They would have liked to have been there at the launch, but it was not possible because of rights issues."

Scott told What Satellite And Digital TV she expected there to be 230 channels on the Freesat EPG by early 2009. "We have got some exciting international and music channels coming up, including one exclusive Freesat channel, and hopefully more HD content," she said.

"It's slightly decided by a timetable set down with Sky, which concerns the uplinking arrangements so we do not interfere with their EPG and they do not interfere with ours. The EPG data is an additional component which is added to the broadcast stream, and they were not able to combine it for all the channels in time for our launch."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...at-launch.html

[satelliteman]

Fantastic news, cheers for the info boss

Five on freesat will make my life alot easier, goodbye to freesatfroms*y and the fact you have to put up with the whole EPG instead of it being trimmed to only display what you subscribe to.

[Nibb]

Nice to see someone appreciate it m8!

[satelliteman]

Nice to see someone appreciate it m8!

It`s the case that nearly all my customers ask "Will we get ch5"? and i then have to go round the houses to explain about a FTA card and what they do and the fact they cost £20 a pop.


My top 3 wishlist for Freesat is...


* Freesat HD PVR
* The launch of Dave on freesat
* S*y to stop making so much money for free content

[Nibb]

Well you will get the first one about December....dont know about the second.......and the third never!