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Freeview EPG adds more Community TV channels

Programming info on Community TV stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth are now available on Freeview's EPG.

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Freeview has now added three more community TV channels to its Electronic Program Guide (EPG).

They are  C31 (Melbourne), 31 Digital (Brisbane) and West TV (Perth). They join TVS (Sydney), which has
already been available.

Each is available as SD broadcasts via Digital Channel 44 in their respective regions.

Freeview CEO Robin Parkes said: “We’re delighted that viewers in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney now have the ability to use the Freeview EPG across every one of their favourite free TV channels, including community channels.”

The Freeview EPG is only available on equipment with a Freeview EPG logo on it.

Channel 31 in Adelaide goes digital in November.

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  1. Is there any reason why the Freeview website has canberra & some other regional area’s such as southern & northern Nsw as well as Tasmania as getting Melbourne’s C31 community channel?

    I personally think thats a little bit weird.

  2. I think this is clicking for me now. I’m thinking about the EPG which is being broadcast by the stations, which is received by all machines regardless of branding, but this is referring to the software doing the rendering on the machine, yes? If so, then this is just more misleading stuff from freeview – some people would think this means you can’t get an EPG unless you have a “freeview” machine to receive it, which is definitely not the case. I certainly get the EPG for TVS on my non-freeview machine.

  4. Just a minor point, the statement “The Freeview EPG is only available on equipment with a Freeview EPG logo on it” is incorrect, unless you mean an EPG which looks Exactly like the one in the graphic. My Panasonic Blu-ray recorder gets all the EPG’s fine, but pre-dates all the freeview hoopla, so no logo but works perfectly.

    1. Donald not incorrect. Freeview branded EPG is only available on equipment with a “Freeview EPG” logo. Not even those with “Freeview” logo have it. Other EPGs however similar are not the Freeview EPG.

  6. @Dave

    Which transponder are you off? You’d have to be off Mt Coo-Tha to get D31, as far as I’m aware. It’s not repeated on any of the regional transmitters, certainly not off Mt Tamborine nor Currumbin.

  7. @Dave – SBS have all the LCNs beginning with “3”. Channel 31’s LCN is 44. I can’t speak for the power of C31’s Brisbane transmitter or whether there are any repeaters in your area but being 100km out, I think you’d be lucky to get it.

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