Free To Air (FTA) Channels  any Digital Satellite Receiver can receive FTA channels no card required, use Lyngsat for tuning details as they often change

I have listed the FTA Channels by EPG Number as they appear in the Sky EPG below in Black and in Non Italics

Although not FTA I have also listed the channels which are transmitted Free to View (FTV) in BLUE italics - no subscription is required Free to View channels can only be received with a Sky Digibox and a FTV card.

I have also listed in green italics the channels which are FREE on Freeview (Digital Terrestrial NOT Satellite) but are scrambled as part of the Sky Family Pay package on Satellite as this often causes confusion.

And finally I have listed channels in grey italics channels which are of note as they used to be FTA but have been encrypted, or are available FTA on other satellites, or have recently gone to the channel graveyard. - List updated 18th Aug 2008

TV Channels (some notes in brackets)

 
101 - BBC One  (Changed to FTA 10th July 2003)

102 - BBC Two  (Became FTA 10th July 2003)

103 - ITV1  (Became FTA 1st Nov 2005, was previously FTV since its launch on Sky platform on 21st  Nov 2001)

104 - Channel 4 (Became FTA August 2008, ROI version of CH4 in EPG may still be encrypted)

105 - five  (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card)

108 - Sky Three  (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card)

111 - Dave  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview")

116 - BBC Four    (Launched 2nd March 2002 before that known as “BBC Knowledge”, Changed to FTA 10th July 2003)

118 - ITV2  (Went FTA 1st Nov 2005, previously briefly FTV, and before that it was a Sky subscription channel)

119 - ITV3 (was previously a subscription channel called Granada Plus owned by Granada Sky Broadcasting)

120 - ITV4 (Launched 1st Nov 2005, in EPG from 7th Nov 2005)

121 - Virgin 1  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview", was ftn)

134 - S4C

135 - Channel 4 + 1 (Not currently FTA although Ch4 is, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card)

136 - E4 (was a Sky subscription channel until 6th May 2008)

137 - E4 + 1 (was a Sky subscription channel until 6th May 2008)

138 - More 4 (was a Sky subscription channel until 6th May 2008)

139 - More 4 + 1 (was a Sky subscription channel until 6th May 2008)

140 - Channel 4 HD (Probably FTV, can’t currently check as don’t a Sky HD receiver)

143 - BBC HD (Testing)

144 - Sumo TV

145 - Sumo TV + 1

146 - Zone Reality

147 - Zone Reality  + 1

148 - Zone Reality  X (Extra)

149 - ZoneRomantica

157 - Hollywood TV

158 - Film 24

160 - Open Access 2

161 - Open Access 3

167 - Information TV

168 - Info TV 2

169 - Passion TV

171 - Raj TV

176 - My Channel

180 - Five US    (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card)

181 - Five US + 1    (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card)

182 - FIVER  (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card, renamed from five life May 2008)

183 - FIVER + 1   (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card, renamed from five life May 2008)

184 - ITV2+1

185 - ITV3+1 (185 - abc1  No longer transmitting, was a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview)

186 - Red TV (was called Legal TV up to Dec 07)

187 - Fame TV  (187 - was Raj TV)

(192 - MKTV gone 2008)

194 - BEN

195 - Propeller

196 - Simply TV

197 - Life One

198 - AIT Int'l

199 - Anime Central

202 - Urban TV

203 - Channel M (Manchester)

204 - OBE

207 - Nuts TV (from 7pm)

208 - Pulse (208 was Xleague.tv)

209 - BET

(219 - Solent TV No longer transmitting)

261 - Travel Channel

262 - Travel Ch + 1

263 - TravelChannel2

270 - Performance

271 - Mainstreet

272 - Fashion TV (was FTA before Nov 2004 then a Sky subscription channel and back FTA 2007)

273 - Real Estate TV

274 - Real Estate TV + 1

275 - Wine TV

277 - Wedding TV

278 - Wedding TV + 1

280 - Horse and country

283 - SA Direct

284 - Luxe TV

285 - Baby Channel

286 - Luxe TV HD

287 - O'seasproperties (Overseas properties)

289 - LininginSpain

315 - Film 4

316 - Film 4 + 1

319 - TCM - Previously Free on Sky Digital as it was on Sky Analogue, until 6th Jan 2004 when encrypted without warning

321 - Zone Horror

322 - Zone Thriller

323 - True Movies

324 - True Movies 2

325 - Movies 4 Men

327 - Movies 4 Men 2

331 - Nollywood (due to encrypt end of Feb 2008)

340 - MTV - was free on Sky Analogue platform but never on Sky Digital

348 - TMF  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview")

350 - The Hits  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview")

354 - Q - was free in the early days of Sky digital

355 - Chart Show TV

356 - The Vault (Music channel)

357 - B4 (Before)

359 - oMusic TV (was called Classic FM TV)

360 - Channel U

361 - Fizz - has a reduced size screen due to the txt messages

362 - Bliss (was a pay Sky channel, but now FTA)

364 - Scuzz (was a pay Sky channel, but now FTA)

366 - Flaunt (was a pay Sky channel, but now FTA)

368 - Rockworld TV - (368 was previously called Red TV and Redemption TV)

374 - Bubble Hits

375 - MusFlashTV

376 - Bedroom TV

377 - NME TV

378 - ClublandTV

405 - Sky Sports News  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview")

410 - Eurosport (UK) - Previously Free on Sky Analogue, the UK spin off on Digital has never been Free

413 - Motors TV - Previously Free on Sky Digital it encrypted without warning 31 Feb 2005

417 - Setanta NASN - May occasionally have free trial programming with a FTV card

419 - Extreme Sports - was free but encrypted to become another pay channel in Sky package

427 - FightNetwork (was TWC fight ! was just called TWC)

432 - Racing UK - occasionally has some free programmes on a FTV card to show extra later races from meetings that Channel four racing are at

433 - Racing World - was free, part of Setanta along with Racing UK, NASN etc

435 - Setanta News (Not FTA, Free To View, Requires Sky Digibox and a FTV card, similar channel to Sky Sports News, Dec 2007)

444 - All in Sport (channel removed end of 2006 / Jan 2007)

446 - Real Madrid TV (No longer FTA)

501 - Sky News

502 - Bloomberg (Was a pay channel, went free Jan/Feb 2007)

503 - BBC News 24

504 - BBC Parl'mnt

505 - CNBC - not free on Astra 2 although it is on Astra 1

506 - CNN

507 - S4C2, previously S4/C2 - and before that ident did say S4C ~ 2

509 - EuroNews

510 - Fox News (was briefly FTA after 11/9/2001) - very occasionally offered for free on "press red" on Sky News

511 - CCTV - 9

514 - Al Jazeera Eng

516 - Russia Today

517 - France 24 (English language version)

537 - UKTV History  (Unfortunately a Sky subscription channel despite being a free channel on Terrestrial "Freeview")

539 - Community Channel

547 - Business Chn'l

601 - Cartoon Network - Never free on Sky Digital, but was free on Sky Analogue until closedown

603 - Boomerang - Previously Free on Sky Digital it encrypted without warning 14 April 2003

630 to 682 - Shopping channels, QVC etc

760 to - 774 Religious TV, God TV etc

780 to 828  - Non English Language TV including DW - TV, TVEi and TV5 which are available on other Satellites such as hotbird for free

840 to 851 - More "Quiz" Channels

870 to 874 - "Date and chat" Channels

880 to 886 - Other such as Teachers TV 880

899 - Sky Customer Channel

900 to 957 - Adult Channels

970 - Sky Customer Channel

971 to 973 BBC 1 Three other Nations, England, Scotland, Wales, Norhern Ireland depending on what your 101 is set to

974 to 988 BBC 1 Several BBC1 England regions,  London, West, Central etc your region may be on 101

990 to 992 BBC 2 Three other Nations, England, Scotland, Wales, Norhern Ireland depending on what your 102 is set to

993 - ITV1 London with Audio Description (Other regions can be added to "Other Channel")

994 - Channel 4 London with Audio Description (Different advert region to 104)

995 - Channel 4 + 1 London with Audio Description (Different advert region to 104)

996 - Sky Channel Line up (Audio Only)

998 - Sky Welcome (FTV)

999 - Sky Customer Channel

Radio (some more popular ones in bold)

0101   BBC Radio 1

0102   BBC Radio 2

0103   BBC Radio 3

0104   BBC Radio 4 FM

0105   BBC Radio 5 Live    (Radio 5 is now FTA it  WAS encrypted for copyright reasons, it was FTV with a card without Sky Sub)

0106    Classic FM

0107    Virgin Radio

0108    Talk Sport was on 858, was encrypted until 2006 for copyright reasons, it was NOT FTV with a card, it required a Sky subscription

0109    Capital

0110    Planet Rock

0111    XFM

0112    Core

0113    Century

0114    Choice DM

0115    BBC World Service

0116    BBC R Scot.

0117    BBC R Wales

0118    BBC R Ulster

0119    BBC Asian Network

0120    BBC Radio 6   (was 870, previously 870 was BBC R4 LW)

0121    Capital Gold

0122    WRN Europe 

0123    Premier  (Religious)

0124    Heart

0125    UCB Europe  (Religious)

0126    CrossRhythm  (Religious)

0127    Oneword

0128    smooth fm

0129    Solar Radio

0130    Panjab Radio

0131    BBC 7  (881 was previously StormLive which has closed)

0132    PrimeTime

0133    Sunrise Radio  (Asian programming)

0134    UCB Bible (Religious)    (884 was talkGospel removed 1/03/2004)

0135    UCB Talk  (Religious)   (885 was TotalRock)

0136    UCB Insp  (Religious)

0137    1 Xtra BBC (was 887, previously 887 was The Storm)

0138    TWR  (Religious)

0139    BBC R n Gael (Radio nan Gaidheal (Gaelic))  (previously 889 was LBH Radio)

0141    Raaj Radio (was UCB Talk 891)

0142    RTE Europe

0143    BBC R4 LW  (893 was Asian Air)

0144    BBC 5L SportX (Extra)  (894 was SBN)   

0145    Club Asia

0146    Real Radio

0147    EWTN  (Religious)

0150    Sukh Sugar

0151    Asian Gold

0153    The Villian (Aston Villa)

0154    BBC R Cymru

0155    Pulse Rated - was Pulse Unsigned (905 was previously BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (Gaelic))      

0156    CC  Radio 

0157    GlobeCast Radio (907 was previously BBC 5L SportX )

0158    Gaydar Radio

0159    Family Radio  (Religious)

0160    RTE Radio 1  (910 was Team Talk 252)

0161    ArrwRock - The Arrow Rock  (911 was previously BBC4 LW and before that was BBC Radio 6 )

0162    Fun Radio

(0163    Apple FM - not in EPG Feb 2007)

0164    RTE 2FM

0165    RTE Lyric Fm

0166    R na G

(0167    jazz fm - not in EPG Feb 2007 )

0168    Akash Radio

0169    Desi Radio

0170    The Hits  (920 was KISS)

0171    Galaxy

0172    Smash Hits!

0173    Kismat - radio  (923 was MeanCountry)

0174    chill

0175    CaptlDisney

0176    Amrit Bani

0177    LBC 97.3

0178    Kiss  (928 was Kerrang)

0179    Heat  (929 was The Hits)

0180    Magic   (London 105.4)

0181    Q  (931 was Mojo) 

0182    MOJO   (932 was Q)

0183    Kerrang   (was on 933, previously 933 was Heat)

0184    Radio  -  BFBS Radio - Forces

0185    Spectrum 1

0186    Liberty - Radio

0187    Yarr - Radio

0188    On Air

0189   Classic Gold

0190   Big L 1395

(0191   The Word - Religious ch not in EPG Feb 2007)

0192   V.O. Africa - Voice of Africa

(0193   Apni Awaz - not in EPG Feb 2007)

0194   Colourful

0195   RTI Radio

0196   VIP Radio

(0198   MOS Radio - not in EPG Feb 2007)

0199   Caroline

0200   VirginXtrme

0201   VirginCRock

0202   VirginGrve

0203   Virgin105.8

0205   DutchIntSv - was called RNWDutch Int

0206   Record Radio - (Brazilian)

0207   Rainbow

(0208   Music Shop - no longer on EPG)

0209   Yorkshire R - Yorkshire Radio

0210  Newstalk

0211 BFBS Radio

0212 Hot Digital

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