Channel 8 any Ideas (merged)

Steve_Whelan · 18/10/05 - 16:13

I have just did my rescan and now have Channel 8, any one got this blank channel, My box normally ignors vacant chanels bit it has a banner for channel 8. I get my signal from Pontop Pike via Fenham Relay.

gottago · 18/10/05 - 16:14

ch8 is TeleG in Scotland and C4 in Wales.

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:20

Its says it a TXT channel on mine so it could be a text service for a new channel?

steveboswell · 18/10/05 - 16:22

jonothan b wrote:

Its says it a TXT channel on mine so it could be a text service for a new channel?

It's licenced to Teletext according to someone in the EPG Re-shuffle thread

Bozz

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:24

There was rumour S4C was going national

steveboswell · 18/10/05 - 16:29

UKintheUS wrote:

There was rumour S4C was going national

It would be a nice addition, if only to make the EPG look nicer, but where's the space coming from?

Edit: Assuming they find the capacity, this will enable ABC1 to launch in Wales, I presume

Bozz

linkinpark875 · 18/10/05 - 16:30

What use is S4C to other UK viewers?

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:30

It wouldn't make sense for a text service to be on channel 8 after teletext has just moved. Although as 8 is not used in England anyway it could be a deal with teletext that to vacate lcn 9 they get lcn 8 in England and elsewhere they will be at the back of the epg.

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:32

linkinpark875 wrote:

What use is S4C to other UK viewers?

Under EU law the government must do all it can to save the Welsh language, so making it national may be a way of doing it.

TV King · 18/10/05 - 16:33

I to have just got the new epg line up. And I to now have channel 8. I to would like to know what channel 8 is for. Is going to be a tv channel, text channel or an interactive channel.

Or for some resson are those of us that live out side of Scotland (live in England) going to get Tele G at 6pm to 7pm.

I will tune in to channel 8 at 6pm to see if those of us that live out side of Scotland (live in England) get Tele G but I dout we will.

Or Channel 8 could be S4C going natinal to everyone who lives out side wales. If that is the case then I would have expected S4C2 on channel 86 to be going natinal but channel 86 does not apper on my box.

So we will just have to waite and see what channel 8 on Freeview turns out to be in England.

linkinpark875 · 18/10/05 - 16:34

UKintheUS wrote:

Under EU law the government must do all it can to save the Welsh language, so making it national may be a way of doing it.

But they can not make you watch it by law.

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:38

Its probably just a mistake that the channel is there, every thing is going too smoothly, its bound to happen.

bodderz · 18/10/05 - 16:41

Im getting channel 8 branded just "8" from Fenton too.

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:45

bodderz wrote:

Im getting channel 8 branded just "8" from Fenton too.

yes, no brand, no license, no MHEG, no stream, no nothing, just 8! The ultimate mistake!

digiperson · 18/10/05 - 16:45

I'm not so sure Channel 8 in England/N.I. is a mistake, because they have managed to keep the BBC Regional Radio LCNs off from the EPG in England.

I know they are on a different Mux, but I'd doubt it is accidental. Then again, I'm probably wrong.

digiperson

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:50

It could be for Channel 5, new channel

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:53

UKintheUS wrote:

It could be for Channel 5, new channel

...but then it would be for england only wouldn't it.

steveboswell · 18/10/05 - 16:54

UKintheUS wrote:

It could be for Channel 5, new channel

More chance of TeleG launching 24-hours nationwide, I fear. It's on multiplex 2, and five are firmly cemented on multiplex A.

Bozz

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:56

So we could get S4C national in Welsh
OR
Tele G national in Galic.

More Speak Welsh i think S4C will have it.

hartcliffe · 18/10/05 - 16:56

no channel 8 here

[Deleted User] · 18/10/05 - 16:58

Maybe its just there to make us all suspect something!!!

steveboswell · 18/10/05 - 16:59

hartcliffe wrote:

no channel 8 here

Some boxes ignore channels that aren't broadcasting any data. Mind you, in Bristol you're never too far from a TV capable of picking up S4C anyway!!

Bozz

System · 18/10/05 - 17:07

jonothan b wrote:

Its says it a TXT channel on mine so it could be a text service for a new channel?

Could be a new Ceefax digital service.Or just a Nothing channel.

linkinpark875 · 18/10/05 - 17:08

Ceefax? is that not just BBCi on digital?

jimmya1 · 18/10/05 - 17:10

My Channel 8 comes up on the tv screen as Channel 88

Digi Man · 18/10/05 - 17:11

Getting channel '8' here.

Sorry to go a bit off topic but whats the name of the transmitter that I get my signal from if recieving BBC1 West Midlands? is it Sutton Coldfield

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