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Old 08-11-2009, 7:38 PM   #1
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Missing Sky channels

I realise that a lot of these questions are becoming depressingly familiar so bear with me:
I live in Cheshire and following this week's switchover have lost Sky. We're not subscribers and only get the free channels. Strange thing is, when I initially retuned my Bush telly all the channels were there and all was well, but by the following day Sky3, Sky News, Sky Sports News and Talksport had all vanished.
I've tried fiddling with the aerial and retuning again, but there's nothing there at all.
The tv is a Bush digital from Argos- got it cheap- and I'm using an indoor aerial.
Anyone else had this problem?
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Old 08-11-2009, 11:05 PM   #2
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Re: Missing Sky channels

Those channels are all on the same Multiplex (group) of Freeview channels - that Multiplex also has the Yesterday & E4+1 channels, so you may have lost those as well. This is probably due to your indoor aerial not being powerful enough to receive all channels following the first phase of analogue switch-off on 4 November. However, when the switch-over to digital is completed in the NW on 2 December, the Freeview signal is due to be strengthened, so you may get the missing channels back. So you may not wish to make any radical changes to your set-up until then.
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Old 09-11-2009, 6:02 PM   #3
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Re: Missing Sky channels

Tried re-tuning again last night after posting and, at the 4th attempt, I now have all channels. Having said that, I had all channels before so it may not be permanent...
Thanks for the reply.
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