Wrong Tv area

[Chociejohn8]

Why am I getting Yorkshire itv news, when I am in the central region

[nodrogd]

Regional allocations are determined by the cable headend you are downstream of.

If you can give me the nearest large town to your location I should be able to work out what cable franchise area you are located in, & hence the channels you should receive.

[Chociejohn8]

thanks but I live in the central region so should not be getting other region news output,

[nodrogd]

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@Chociejohn8 wrote:

thanks but I live in the central region so should not be getting other region news output,

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Not necessarily. Cable region franchises have different boundaries to Freeview & Satellite owing to the way the franchises were licenced, & hence the networks were built. If you are downstream of a Yorkshire franchise headend you can only get the channels fed from that headend.

If you give me a location I can look at the franchise data, as there may be alternative regions available elsewhere in the EPG

[Chociejohn8]

I have to say that for a very insightful person your missing the point.

I live in Birmingham and have always, yes always received my local ITV news on channel 103 from central ITV, my region.

I don’t live in Yorkshire, the issue by the way has now gone away and I’m once again receiving my local news.

I also understand that you can find other regions if you scroll the EPG, I used to do this when I had Sky. Thanks for your very insightful help.

[nodrogd · Accepted solution]

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@Chociejohn8 wrote:

I have to say that for a very insightful person your missing the point.

I live in Birmingham and have always, yes always received my local ITV news on channel 103 from central ITV, my region.

I don’t live in Yorkshire, the issue by the way has now gone away and I’m once again receiving my local news.

I also understand that you can find other regions if you scroll the EPG, I used to do this when I had Sky. Thanks for your very insightful help.

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Now you have answered the question I can you the advice you could have had earlier. What you had was actually an ITV network issue. If there are any issues you get a backup region instead. What won’t change is the channel identifier. So if you press the info button on the remote & see the correct region on the banner, but have a different one on the screen there is a problem at the broadcasters end. Problem solved.