Receive our channels
Via your television set
Some 24 million viewers, in over 10 million homes, can directly receive Information TV in the UK. There are no charges, nor is any registration required. No internet connection is required.
Information TV is a Digital Television Service. It is broadcast by satellite, and available throughout the UK as a “free-to-air” channel, accessible by all who have access to the Sky or Freesat digital satellite platforms. The channel is accessible regardless of which Sky subscription is taken by the viewer. It is also accessible by those who have terminated their Sky subscriptions, retaining only the “Free to air” channels. The channel can also be received throughout Western and much of Central Europe, with a satellite dish and receiver pointing to the Eurobird 1 satellite. There are estimated to be over 50 Million satellite viewing homes in Europe.
On Sky Digital we can be found at: Information TV (Channel 231), Showcase TV® (Channel 201), Showcase 2 (Channel 203) and Russia Today (Channel 512). On Freesat, Information TV is Channel 402, Showcase TV® Channel 403 and Russia Today, Channel 206. Russia Today is on Freeview, Channel 85 - 24hrs per day.
The Information TV and Showcase programme schedules are listed on both the Freesat and the SkyTM Electronic Programme Guides, and all the normal Digibox facilities are available - programme synopses, reminder setting, recording (with SkyPlusTM), adding to “my favourite channels” and so on. Some programmes may carry subtitles or non-English language audio.
Throughout most of Europe, our programmes can be received via any satellite equipment pointing at the Astra/Eurobird complex at 28.2E.
Information TV
Frequency 11.623 H, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 27500, Service ID 50880
Showcase TV®
Frequency 11.260 V, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 27500, Service ID 52125
Showcase 2
Frequency 11.623 H, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 27500, Service ID 50881
Russia Today
Frequency 11.623 H, FEC 2/3, Symbol Rate 27500, Service ID 50847
Via the internet
For broadband users throughout the world, all our channels can also be viewed live via web simulcast. See the 'Watch Live' links on our home page. There is no charge for viewing our programmes. The web streams are available in Flash, Windows Media Player or the newer Microsoft Silverlight (all free). To receive our simulcasts, you must have a broadband connection capable of supporting > 400KBps. If the broadcasts "stutter" and are interrupted, it is likely that your connection is not fast enough to keep up! In this case, you should close all other web-connected programmes, which might "steal" bandwidth, while watching our programmes.
For further info, please see also our FAQ section on this service
Future plans
It is planned to extend Information TV’s distribution to the major cable networks (Virgin Media, formerly NTL and Telewest) in the near future. Again, viewer access will be totally free.
Freeview – the Digital Terrestrial service – has exhausted its channel capacity, so there is no Information TV channel available on Freeview at present. We do, however, hope to arrange capacity on Freeview alongside an existing channel, but which does not broadcast 24 hours.
In the coming months, we plan to make available on the website “on demand” replays of programmes already transmitted on Information TV, and also other related programmes, even if they have not been transmitted.
Help us to help you
We invite you to register your interests here on the website, and we will then alert you by email to forthcoming programmes which match your selected fields of interest.
Most Information TV programmes will be repeated at several times of the day, to allow viewers a choice of viewing time. Some programmes will be regularly repeated over weeks or months, providing important information to a changing audience.
("Sky", and "SkyPlus" are trademarks of British Sky Broadcasting.)
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