Channel 5 is now available free

November 3, 2008

Adding “Five” to your Sky box

  • On the Sky box go to Services > System Setup > Add Channels

  • Enter the following details:
    • Frequency: 10773MHz (10.773GHz)
    • Polarity: Horizontal
    • Symbol rate: 22000 (22.0Mb)
    • FEC: 5/6
  • Go to Find Channels, highlight “Five”, and press the yellow button, then Select.
  • To view the channel go to Services > Other Channels, and select “Five”.

Adding “Five” to your French digibox

If you have a “brico” box, if it does “blind scans” then it’d be worth doing a complete scan as quite a few channels have moved in the last couple of months.

If your box does not do blind scans then you will have to create a new transponder with the details above and then scan that.

Written by Bart · Filed Under How-to 

Comments

7 Responses to “Channel 5 is now available free”

  1. John Knott on December 20th, 2008 6:03 pm

    This is very good information but my Sky box won’t let me change the Frequency settings, so the whole exercise doesn’t work.
    Same for Channel 4.
    Can someone tell me where I am going wrong, or how to work-around this, please ?

    It’s a bit of a pain, we had it all until a short while ago.

  2. bart on December 20th, 2008 6:42 pm

    Hi John, tell me a little more and I’ll try and help…….. waht happens when you get to the “add channels” screen?

  3. Chris Denning on May 28th, 2009 9:34 am

    I found your instructions for advise installing my equipment, getting channel 5 spot on, thank you, but can you get channel 5 US ?

  4. Linda Wilson on July 18th, 2009 8:25 pm

    Thanks for the help in getting Channel 5. Does anyone know how to add BBC North West channel to our tv in France?

    Many thanks

    Linda

  5. Bart on July 19th, 2009 1:03 pm

    Hi Linda, BBC North West is channel 978 on your Sky box

  6. colin rout on July 19th, 2009 8:41 pm

    What is the frequency for Fiver and Five US Please?

  7. Bart on July 20th, 2009 7:43 am

    Hi Colin, sadly Five is the only one of the family that is available for free. Five US, Fiver etc are al Sky subscription only.

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