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| Boeing - Astra 2D Information about the Astra 2D satellite. |
| Launching 2D Astra 2D launch 19th December 2000. |
| SES Astra Astra 2D Factsheet Fact sheet on Astra 2D (PDF). |
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| Dishes |
| Channelmaster Channelmaster dishes and equipment. |
| Gibertini Italian dish manufacturer, dishes up to 150cm. |
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| LNBs |
| Best Manufacturers of the lowest noise LNB on the market (0.1dB). |
| Invacom LNB manufacturer. |
| MTI LNB manufacturer based in Taiwan. |
| Smart Titanium German LNB manufacturer. |
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| Broadcasters |
| BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation. |
| BBC America Entertainment channel, only available in the United States. |
| BBC Canada Entertainment channel, only available in Canada. |
| BBC Entertainment The BBC's international entertainment channel. |
| BBC HD BBC HD is the BBC's international HD channel. |
| BBC Kids Childrens channel, available only in Canada. |
| BBC Lifestyle Lifestyle programming, currently available in Singapore. |
| BBC Knowledge Factual and documentry channel, currently available in Asia. |
| BBC Prime The BBC's international entertainment channel. |
| BBC World The BBC's international news channel. |
| BBC Worldwide The commercial arm of the BBC. |
| CBeebies International version of the BBC's pre-school channel. |
| Channel 4 Britain's fourth national TV channel. |
| Five Britain's fifth national TV channel. |
| ITV Britain's first commercial TV channel. |
| Radio Caroline In 2004 Radio Caroline celebrated 40 years since we broke the BBC's radio monopoly in the UK when we began broadcasting at Easter 1964. |
| S4C - Sianel Pedwar Cymru Welsh language Channel Four for Wales. |
| Sky Broadcaster and platform operator. |
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| Platforms |
| Freesat Freesat is a Public Service digital satellite platform, from the BBC and ITV launching in 2008. |
| Freesat from Sky Sky's Freesat service. |
| Freeview Free-To-Air digital terrestrial platform in the UK. |
| Project Canvas Project Canvas is a proposed partnership between the BBC, ITV, BT and Five to build an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to BBC Trust approval. |
| Radioplayer Radioplayer, the new online platform bringing together all of the BBC and commercial radio stations in the UK, will officially launch in December 2010. |
| SeeSaw Video On Demand (VOD) venture by Arqiva that uses technology originally developed for the BBC's Project Kangaroo. SeeSaw Beta is currently by invitation only, sign up at the website to take part. |
| Sky Broadcaster and platform operator. |
| Virgin Media Largest cable operator in the UK. |
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| Publications & TV Listings |
| Radio Times British TV and radio listings. |
| TV Guide TV listings. |
| What Satellite TV UK's main satellite magazine. |
| What's on TV TV listings and gossip. |
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| Reception Information |
| Astra 2D Footprint Swedish Microvave's Astra 2D footprint |
| Reception of the BBC-programmes (Astra 2D) Information on reception of the Astra 2D satellite in Germany, also available in German. |
| Reception Advice and issues Noise, Signal Loss, background and system noise, earth thermal noise, freespace loss, rainfade, terrestrial interference, potential interference frequency chart, side lobe discussion, avoiding Terrestrial Interferance, unavoidable Terrestrial Interferance, solar outage. |
| Sams home Page Lots of technical information about Sky Digital. |
| Sky FAQ Sky digital FAQ. |
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| Media & Satellite Information |
| Astra Information & advice about Astra. |
| SES Astra official Astra site. |
| Ban Power Line Technology If you are you suffering from interfence to your FM radio, DAB radio, Taxi radio, Business radio (inc. shopping centre radio), Amateur radio, Citizens' Band radio, and Shortwave radio you are in the right place. The aim of this website is to help you understand the deliberate interference caused by Power Line Technology and what you can do about it. |
| BBC HD Campaign Campaign to bring back better HD picture quality to the BBC HD channels. |
| Brand Republic Advertising, Marketing, Media and PR site. |
| FreesatUser.com Information on Freesat, sister site of www.astra2d.com. |
| Broadcast Now TV and Radio website. |
| David's Transmitter World Information and photographs about transmitters and associated equipment. |
| DigiTAG Digital Terrestrial Television Action Group |
| Digital-Lifestyles Where media and technology converge. |
| Digital Spy For the latest news and gossip from the world of entertainment and television and radio. |
| The Digital Television Group The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for Digital Television in the UK: an independent body facilitating the rapid rollout of digital television and convergence across the communications industry. |
| Digital UK Digital UK is the independent, non-for-profit organisation leading the process of digital TV switchover in the UK. |
| The Dish News, channel and frequency listings. |
| FreeUKdigitalTV.co.uk has been designed to offer an unbiased and informative guide to the complexities and choices associated with the UK digital TV switchover. Our focus is on the free services provided by Freeview and Freesat. Unlike many other websites, we promote the adoption of both services and we advise on the most effective use of existing equipment. We offer technical reviews and price comparisons of set-top-boxes and digital TVs with links to enable online purchases from leading retailers such as John Lewis, Currys, Dixons, Argos, Pixmania and others. |
| Join Freesat A guide to the Freesat satellite TV service. |
| Media UK The critically-acclaimed independent media directory for the UK. |
| mb21 Site by Mike brown, Teletext then & now, UK transmitters information and gallery, Technostalgia and much more! |
| Plusworld - Sky+ Information about Sky+. |
| PVR Junction PVR Junction has information, news and reviews on all types of PVRs, Sky, Freesat and Freeview. |
| RadioCentre Shaping commercial radio's future RadioCentre formed in July 2006 from the merger of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA). Its members consist of the overwhelming majority of UK Commercial Radio stations who fund the organisation. |
| Satellites.co.uk British satellite Forum. |
| Telly Aerial Information on Freeview, Top Up TV, and DTTV in the UK, Europe and around the World. |
| The Airwaves Media information and news. |
| The UK Campaign for Logo Free TV Campaign to remove on-screen logos from British TV. |
| Timo's Links Some good Media Links. |
| TV Chat Share your opinions on good and bad TV shows at the TV Chat Forum. |
| TV Forum A UK based active website discussing television presentation and related topics. This site has no connection with and is not endorsed by any broadcaster. |
| WILDSAT Wild Pete's Sky Channel Guide. |
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| HDTV |
| HDTVorg HDTVorg is an independent guide for all things high definition. Get the latest news and reviews for lcd, plasma, HDDVD products and more. |
| HDTV UK News and information on HD. |
| Super Hivision - NHK Japan Super Hi-vision (Ultrahigh-Definition Wide-Screen System with 4000 Scanning Lines) is the technology developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories. |
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| Television & Radio Nostalgia |
| British Vintage Wireless Society The British Vintage Wireless Society (BVWS) is a society of approximately 1700 World-wide members sharing a common interest in the preservation and communication of technical and historical data, and the preservation and restoration of Vintage radio and related equipment. |
| Cherished Television British television history. |
| Pember's Ponderings British TV nostalgia, Teletext, transmitters, Testcards, the 405-Line Television System, and much more. |
| Radio Rewind Unofficial History of BBC Radio 1. |
| thisisfive.co.uk thisisfive has the largest collection of idents for the Five family of channels. |
| Transdiffusion Broadcasting System Transdiffusion Broadcasting System (TBS), a not-for-profit historical society dedicated to documenting and preserving broadcasting history. |
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| Irish TV & Radio |
| Boards.ie - Cable & Digital TV Information, discussion and advice on all areas of irish TV & radio. |
| Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) was established on October 1st 2009, as an independent regulator for radio and television broadcasters in Ireland. |
| Digital TV The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Digital Television website. The purpose of this site is to provide information to members of the public about Digital Television. |
| Irish TV Irish TV information on Irish TV, past and present. |
| Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) Radio Telefís Éireann is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts on television, radio and the Internet. |
| RTÉ NL RTÉ NL is a communication network operator in Ireland. |
| Saortv.info Information on Irish Digital TV for the viewer. This is NOT an official Website. This website exists to help explain what Saorview and Saorsat is and how to get Free to Air Digital Television in Ireland. |
| SaorTV Forum Information and advice on free-to-air TV in Ireland. |
| Saorsat (NOT IN USE) Saorvsat (Freesat), is the proposed national free-to-air digital satellite service in the Republic of Ireland. Due to launch Q2 2011. |
| Saorview Saorview (Freeview), is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in the Republic of Ireland. |
| TG4 TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish-language speakers. |
| TV3 Ireland TV3 is a 24 hour commercial free-to-air television broadcaster in the Republic of Ireland which launched on September 20, 1998. It was the country's first independent commercial broadcaster. TV3 is operated by the TV3 Group which also consists of television channel 3e. |
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| British Soaps |
| Coronation Street The official site featuring news, story updates, preview movies, quiz, activities and a message board. |
| corrie.net The Coronation Street Fans website. |
| EastEnders The official site featuring news and story updates. |
| Emmerdale The official site featuring news, story updates, preview movies, quiz, activities and a message board. |
| Hollyoaks The official site at Channel Four. |
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| Expatriot Links |
| Anglo Info Life on the Côte d'Azur, in English. |
| British Expats.com A place for British expats around the world to connect and share experiences of living in a different country. |
| The British Expats Meetup Group in Copenhagen Meet other Expats living in Copenhagen. |
| Expatriate Base Your complete guide for Expatriates in Spain and Europe. |
| Expats.org.uk A free source of information for British expatriates, contracting or living overseas, almost an expats yellow pages. |
| Lost in France If your planning to move to France check out their information pages they have plenty of advice on living and working in France. |
| Spain Expat.com SpainExpat.com endeavours to provide information to expats moving to, or already living in Spain. |
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| United States |
| ABC US broadcaster. |
| CBS US broadcaster. |
| CNN US news channel (US Edition). |
| DIRECTV US satellite platform. |
| Dish Network US satellite platform. |
| Fox Broadcasting Company US broadcaster. |
| NBC US broadcaster. |
| PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. PBS operations are partially funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia. |
| Satellite TV DISH Network, one of the leading satellite TV providers in the United States, offer highest quality of TV entertainment at an affordable price. |
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