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Old 19-06-2017, 13:19   #1
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Wrong regional channel

old old thread so Started new one

We are ITV Regional Meridean South well we were and now we
are on ITV LONDON . CHANNEL 103 . london regional news no use to me
Our Roof ANT Has failed for Freview so now cable only .
Virgin Fault and tech department do not have a clue how to sort this
and i am totally sick of the new idea give this letter in password on and on . can anyone Help . option now is plug back in the SKY BOX Where the Region is Correct and save to get Roof Ant Fixed

postcode here is GU14 8-- TV Region meridean South.


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Old 19-06-2017, 13:53   #2
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Re: wrong regional channel /

https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/our-regions

if you click on each region, it'll bring up a slightly more detailed map. Looks like Farnham, Aldershot are part of the London region. I can't quite tell where your postcode lies within that map, though.
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Old 19-06-2017, 14:01   #3
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It's because it's fed from the Guildford headend and the local channel for there is London (Crystal Palace area)

Im not sure about ITV south but BBC south is in the 800 channels
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Old 19-06-2017, 15:45   #4
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Re: Wrong regional channel

You get ITV Meridian on channel 870, and BBC1 South on 858.
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Old 19-06-2017, 20:40   #5
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Re: Wrong regional channel

thanks but CH103 is listed as our local Regional channel Its london and we are not
Fixed it now plugged back Freesat from Sky and we get meridean fine.
yes we can get 870 858 will sort out FAV Channels when i get time.
Farnborough is GU14 But sometime ago they planned to give us London
postcode LONDON SOUTHWEST 88\89 Got dropped
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Old 20-06-2017, 11:51   #6
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Re: Wrong regional channel

We live in Crawley and should be South East for regional - since we changed from sky to virgin we are now London!

Really annoying my wife especially, wouldn't be so bad if I got the London Weighting allowance
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Old 20-06-2017, 12:26   #7
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sky can change your ITV Channel to your Local Virgin it seems cannot anyone
have any information on this
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Re: Wrong regional channel

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We live in Crawley and should be South East for regional
Not according to ITV. Crawley is well inside the London region. See https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/our-regions/london
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Re: Wrong regional channel

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We live in Crawley and should be South East for regional - since we changed from sky to virgin we are now London!

Really annoying my wife especially, wouldn't be so bad if I got the London Weighting allowance
As per spiderplant's advice above (#4), can you not access the ITV region you want from any channels in the 800s series?
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Re: Wrong regional channel

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We live in Crawley and should be South East for regional - since we changed from sky to virgin we are now London!

Really annoying my wife especially, wouldn't be so bad if I got the London Weighting allowance
Doesn't this come under crystal palace as well?
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Re: Wrong regional channel

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Not according to ITV. Crawley is well inside the London region. See https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/our-regions/london
On sky we got south east (Sussex/Kent) regional news. Seem to recall Crawley is in Sussex!
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Old 21-06-2017, 03:03   #12
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thanks but CH103 is listed as our local Regional channel Its london and we are not
103 is the local version of ITV for the majority of users on whatever headend happens to serve a specific Virgin Media area. Virgin Media areas are based on legacy cable franchises and don't necessarily match BBC One or ITV editorial regions.

There is a map available showing which TV regions are available on 101/103 across the VM national network.

http://store.virginmedia.com/content...erecording.pdf

Where there is a significant overlap between VM areas and TV regions, VM makes any additional BBC One regional channels available on EPG channel 858 and makes any additional ITV regional channels available on EPG channels 870 and 871.

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Fixed it now plugged back Freesat from Sky and we get meridean fine.
yes we can get 870 858 will sort out FAV Channels when i get time.
Farnborough is GU14 But sometime ago they planned to give us London
postcode LONDON SOUTHWEST 88\89 Got dropped
I'm not really sure why you find switching to Freesat from Sky, or getting the roof aerial fixed and using DTT, to be easier than selecting 858 or 870 on your VM equipment...

---------- Post added at 01:47 ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 ----------

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sky can change your ITV Channel to your Local Virgin it seems cannot anyone
have any information on this
Not strictly true, Sky has a fixed number of sub-regions, tied to postcodes, and the version of ITV you receive on Sky should be fixed at whatever ITV allows them to provide for your post code.

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Not according to ITV. Crawley is well inside the London region. See https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/our-regions/london
It is, but Crawley is an oddity.

As far as I know, Crawley has BBC One London as the main BBC channel with BBC One South East as an alternative. The main ITV channel being ITV London, with no alternative provided on channel 870.

Crawley, however, gets the Meridian version of ITV +1 even though, as you say, it is well inside the London region.

That should make VM's regional policy much clearer.
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As far as I know, Crawley has BBC One London as the main BBC channel with BBC One South East as an alternative.
There are no alternatives in Crawley.

Of the top of my head, the other regions that do have alternatives are Basildon (London/Anglia/Meridian), Luton (London/Anglia) and Nottingham (East Mids/East Yorks).
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There are no alternatives in Crawley.

Of the top of my head, the other regions that do have alternatives are Basildon (London/Anglia/Meridian), Luton (London/Anglia) and Nottingham (East Mids/East Yorks).
Sheffield???

The NIT for Crawley includes SID 10101 BBC ONE London (101) and SID 10126 BBC ONE South East (858) but only the London version of ITV.
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Sheffield???
No, no overlaps there

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The NIT for Crawley includes SID 10101 BBC ONE London (101) and SID 10126 BBC ONE South East (858) but only the London version of ITV.
You are right. I blame Specsavers!
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