New Free TV Service For South Africa!!!

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Icasa announced that they will now make available 1 license for a company to run a satellite TV service much like DSTV, only that the service must comprise of only free-to-air channels.

In SA we until recently had a service called Free-2-View. They had exactly the same concept in mind, but because of financial pressure they discontinued their service. Their bouquet included MSNBC which is an American news channel mixed with some great variety shows on weekends. Their plan was to add more channels later as soon as they can source them.

Many of you might think that if a new free-to-air service were to be launched that the service couldn't possibly include any good entertainment channels. Only Christian and news channels. You would greatly be mistaking.

Sky TV is the UK equavilent to DStv. The full Sky TV service includes over 600 channels! And this includes 240 free-to-air channels that are outside of Sky TV's control and can be freely distributed at will. You don't even need a smartcard to view 90% of the channels, the remaining 10% are not FTA outside the UK.
Here follows a list of the free-to-air channels in the UK that may potentially be available on the new FTA network in South Africa:

Entertainment & Sport
AIT Int'l
BEN
BET
Channel M
E4
Elite TV
EMTV
Fight Network
Film 24
HiTv
Information TV
Info TV2
Life
Men & Motors
More4
My Channel
NTAI
Nuts TV+1
OHTV
Open Access 2
Open Access 3
Paranormal Channel
propeller
Red
S4C
Showcase TV
Sumo TV
Zone Reality
Zone Romantica
Zone Thriller

Lifestyle & Culture
Body in Balance
Fashion TV
Horse & Country
LivinginSpain
Luxe TV
Real Estate TV
Rural TV
SA Direct TV
Travel Channel
Wedding TV
Wine TV

Movies
AIT Movistar
Film4
G2 Family
movies4men
mov4men2
NigeriaMovies
Nollywood
Simply Movies
True Movies
True Movies 2
World Movies
Zone Horror

Music
Bliss
Brit Hits
Chart Show TV
Clubland
Channel AKA
Channel Starz
Flaunt
Flava
NME TV
oMusic TV
ROCKWORLDTV
Scuzz
The Vault

News
Al Jazeera Eng
Bloomberg
CCTV-9
CNN
EuroNews
France 24
NHK World TV
Press TV
Russia Today
S4C2

Shopping
Best Direct
Best Direct+
Beverly Hills TV
bid TV
CelebrityShop
Create & Craft
Entrepreneur
Gems.tv 1
Gems.tv 2
Gems.tv 3
High Street TV
Ideal World
Ideal World 2
Ideal World 3
Jewellery Ch.
JJB Sports
JML
JML Choice
JML CookShop
JML Lifestyle
Max TV
Pitch TV
Pitch World
price-drop tv
QVC
Rocks & Co.
Shop on TV
speedauctiontv
Stop + Shop
Teletext Hols
Thane Direct
Thomas Cook
Thomson TV
Tron Direct 2
TV SHOP
JML Home & DIY
Shop Now TV
WWS

Religion
DAYSTAR
DBN
EWTN
Faith
Genesis
GOD Channel
GOD Europe
Gospel Channel
Inspiration
KICC TV
LOVEWORLD TV
revelation
TBN Europe
UCB TV
Wonderful
Word Network

Documentaries and Specialist
Audi Channel
CommunityChnl
Investigation Channel
OceanFinance
Open Access
Psychic TV
Teachers TV
WatchmeTV.TV

Kids
CBBC Channel
CBeebies
CITV
Kix!
POP
PopGirl
Tiny Pop

International
9X
9XM
AAP TV
ARY Oneworld
Abu Dhabi TV
ARY QTV
AT
ATN
Bangla TV
B4U Music
Brit Asia TV
Channel 'S'
Channel S NTV'
Cinémoi movies
DM Digital
Islam Channel
Jaagran
KBC
mta-muslim tv
MATV National
Music India
NTV
Noor TV
Peace TV
PCNE Chinese
PTV Global
PTV Prime
Record TV
SupremeMaster
Venus TV
Zee Muzic

Gaming & Dating
Casino TV
Chat Box
Chat Back
Cupid TV
Dating Channel
Gala TV
Jackpot
Live Bingo
Monte Carlo TV
Smartlive
Super Casino





Adult
Babestation
Babeworld.tv
Blue Kiss
Dirty Talk
Essex Babes
FriendlyTV
Get Lucky TV
HBW TV
House of Fun
Just4Us
LA Babes
LiveXXX
LivexxxBabes
Lucky Star
Northern Birds
Over 18 TV
Tease Me
Tease Me 2
Tease Me 3
The Other Side

As well as a whole lot of great radio stations.

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/skytv/channels/freetoair

Believe it or not, we in South Africa can have the majority of these channels (we already do get some) all on one network because these channels are free-to-air and may be distributed to South Africa!
Imagine that! I will CANCEL my DStv!
 
saaierwaaier said:
Icasa announced that they will now make available 1 license for a company to run a satellite TV service much like DSTV, only that the service must comprise of only free-to-air channels.

In SA we until recently had a service called Free-2-View. They had exactly the same concept in mind, but because of financial pressure they discontinued their service. Their bouquet included MSNBC which is an American news channel mixed with some great variety shows on weekends. Their plan was to add more channels later as soon as they can source them.

Many of you might think that if a new free-to-air service were to be launched that the service couldn't possibly include any good entertainment channels. Only Christian and news channels. You would greatly be mistaking.

Sky TV is the UK equavilent to DStv. The full Sky TV service includes over 600 channels! And this includes 240 free-to-air channels that are outside of Sky TV's control and can be freely distributed at will. You don't even need a smartcard to view 90% of the channels, the remaining 10% are not FTA outside the UK.
Here follows a list of the free-to-air channels in the UK that may potentially be available on the new FTA network in South Africa:

Entertainment & Sport
AIT Int'l
BEN
BET
Channel M
E4
Elite TV
EMTV
Fight Network
Film 24
HiTv
Information TV
Info TV2
Life
Men & Motors
More4
My Channel
NTAI
Nuts TV+1
OHTV
Open Access 2
Open Access 3
Paranormal Channel
propeller
Red
S4C
Showcase TV
Sumo TV
Zone Reality
Zone Romantica
Zone Thriller

Lifestyle & Culture
Body in Balance
Fashion TV
Horse & Country
LivinginSpain
Luxe TV
Real Estate TV
Rural TV
SA Direct TV
Travel Channel
Wedding TV
Wine TV

Movies
AIT Movistar
Film4
G2 Family
movies4men
mov4men2
NigeriaMovies
Nollywood
Simply Movies
True Movies
True Movies 2
World Movies
Zone Horror

Music
Bliss
Brit Hits
Chart Show TV
Clubland
Channel AKA
Channel Starz
Flaunt
Flava
NME TV
oMusic TV
ROCKWORLDTV
Scuzz
The Vault

News
Al Jazeera Eng
Bloomberg
CCTV-9
CNN
EuroNews
France 24
NHK World TV
Press TV
Russia Today
S4C2

Shopping
Best Direct
Best Direct+
Beverly Hills TV
bid TV
CelebrityShop
Create & Craft
Entrepreneur
Gems.tv 1
Gems.tv 2
Gems.tv 3
High Street TV
Ideal World
Ideal World 2
Ideal World 3
Jewellery Ch.
JJB Sports
JML
JML Choice
JML CookShop
JML Lifestyle
Max TV
Pitch TV
Pitch World
price-drop tv
QVC
Rocks & Co.
Shop on TV
speedauctiontv
Stop + Shop
Teletext Hols
Thane Direct
Thomas Cook
Thomson TV
Tron Direct 2
TV SHOP
JML Home & DIY
Shop Now TV
WWS

Religion
DAYSTAR
DBN
EWTN
Faith
Genesis
GOD Channel
GOD Europe
Gospel Channel
Inspiration
KICC TV
LOVEWORLD TV
revelation
TBN Europe
UCB TV
Wonderful
Word Network

Documentaries and Specialist
Audi Channel
CommunityChnl
Investigation Channel
OceanFinance
Open Access
Psychic TV
Teachers TV
WatchmeTV.TV

Kids
CBBC Channel
CBeebies
CITV
Kix!
POP
PopGirl
Tiny Pop

International
9X
9XM
AAP TV
ARY Oneworld
Abu Dhabi TV
ARY QTV
AT
ATN
Bangla TV
B4U Music
Brit Asia TV
Channel 'S'
Channel S NTV'
Cinémoi movies
DM Digital
Islam Channel
Jaagran
KBC
mta-muslim tv
MATV National
Music India
NTV
Noor TV
Peace TV
PCNE Chinese
PTV Global
PTV Prime
Record TV
SupremeMaster
Venus TV
Zee Muzic

Gaming & Dating
Casino TV
Chat Box
Chat Back
Cupid TV
Dating Channel
Gala TV
Jackpot
Live Bingo
Monte Carlo TV
Smartlive
Super Casino





Adult
Babestation
Babeworld.tv
Blue Kiss
Dirty Talk
Essex Babes
FriendlyTV
Get Lucky TV
HBW TV
House of Fun
Just4Us
LA Babes
LiveXXX
LivexxxBabes
Lucky Star
Northern Birds
Over 18 TV
Tease Me
Tease Me 2
Tease Me 3
The Other Side

As well as a whole lot of great radio stations.

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/skytv/channels/freetoair

Believe it or not, we in South Africa can have the majority of these channels (we already do get some) all on one network because these channels are free-to-air and may be distributed to South Africa!
Imagine that! I will CANCEL my DStv!
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I hope they get the following, oh and I see that men and motors is listed in the wrong section as far as I can remember Men and motors only showed naked woman and not much men or motors.
 
looks promising... the catch must be all those shopping channels
was hoping sci-fi or "syfy" would be on the list
 
First companies must tender for the broadcasting license from Icasa (just like ODM and Telkom Media had to do for a pay-TV license in 2007) which in itself could take a couple of months before completion. After the lincense has been granted the winning tender company must set up their broadcasting infrastructure which could take more than a year (even 2 years, look how long it took for ODM to get sufficient funding), then the company must sign deals with FTA broadcasters to be able to receive a good beam of their channels to redirect it to our homes, because at present there are no means of picking up the existing signals (so don't even try). The company must also sort out the issues regarding the sales of decoders and equipment. We may only benefit from this new FTA broadcasting license in 3 years time.
One other issue is that this new FTA broadcaster will most propably only be able to broadcast from a satellite other than PAS7/10, which MultiChoice and Sentech uses since these satellites are close to reaching their full capacity.

And my last thought... SENTECH. Yes, Sentech! They already beam some FTA signals to our homes via their Vivid Satellite system. Why don't they just go and pick up and add the above mentioned channels to their bouquet? They already have the neccesary infrastructure in place! JUST DO IT!!! Then it's done!
 
Dreambox / PC Satelite Tuner Cards

Is it possible to pick up any of these FTA channels using an FTA receiver like the dreambox or even a Satelite Receiver?

Is it possible to get Sky in SA ?
 
lukemab said:
Is it possible to pick up any of these FTA channels using an FTA receiver like the dreambox or even a Satelite Receiver?

Is it possible to get Sky in SA ?
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Unfortunately, No. These FTA channels and Sky TV uses the Astra2 satellite which is WAY out of SA's range. If it were possible to pick up the Astra2 signal we ALL would have Sky TV. Now if you had a Dreambox in the UK or in most of Europe then you would be sorted.
 
saaierwaaier said:
Unfortunately, No. These FTA channels and Sky TV uses the Astra2 satellite which is WAY out of SA's range. If it were possible to pick up the Astra2 signal we ALL would have Sky TV. Now if you had a Dreambox in the UK or in most of Europe then you would be sorted.
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You really need to check your facts before you reply about satellite stuff.

1 Sky uses Eurobird 1 and Astra 2A/B/C/D
2 These fta channels you quoted are a collection from many satellites accesible from the UK
Eurobird 1
Astra 2A/B/C/D
Badr 4
Hot bird 6/8/9
...and many other.

3 FTA means free to watch,not free to use commercially.Sky,Virgin and Freesat can do that because the channels are already on their sats,they just group it into a user friendly way.
 
theratman said:
All dirty lies!
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I was speculating. We can still see many of those FTA channels if the new FTA channel provider can close deals with the channels which should be easy to do. Maybe not channels such as CNN and Zone Reality coz Multichoice already got them in a contract. But there are many channels on that list that we don't yet receive, meaning that there should not be any license infringements, meaning we could easily get those channels in SA! -breathe-
 
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