FAQ - SkyChoice Specialty TV Channels
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| What type of channels does SkyChoice Specialty TV offer? SkyChoice Specialty TV offers approximately 300 channels with 85 of these in English. Channels from various categories are available including News, Children & Youth, Educational, Entertainment, International and Spiritural. In addition, occasional "wild feed" channels enable you to receive numerous sport, news and other special live events with many of these not available from any other Canadian provider! |
| Will all these channels always remain available? From time to time, a channel may choose to no longer offer their signal on a subscription free satellte platform. However, new channels also become available on regular basis so the amount of available channels will stay the same or perhaps increase slightly. Any changes in channel availability will be posted in the news section of our website. |
| Is there an Electronic Program Guide EPG available for these channels? Although a few channels do provide Electronic Program Guide information, the majority of these channels do not offer it as this is a service normally covered by the costs associated with a subcription based platform. However, we have a link to every single channel's website available in our channel listings which often allows you to access the programming schedule for many of these channels. Also, we are working on an Internet based Electronic Program Guide EPG service for our customers which will be available in the near future. |
| What are wild feeds? Wild feeds are temporary channels used to broadcast from a remote location to a studio for editing and broadcast. Common examples are local news correspondents sending reports and sporting events fed back to a studio without graphics or commericals. Broadcasters of sporting events often use satellite as a means of transmitting their live broadcast from the stadium back to their studios where commercials are inserted and their signal is broadcast to various providers for their subscribers. This means that these feeds often have no commercials so it is just like being at the game. Because there's usually no good way to know when they'll be on, feeds are not listed with our standard channel listings. |
| How can I find wild feeds? The best way to find wild feeds is by using the blind scan feature on your FTA receiver. This searches all satellite frequencies and adds any new active transponders to the list which are then scanned for channels. You may also add and scan the transponder manually if you know the tuning information ahead of time. Online communities such as Dr. Sat's FTA forum on SatelliteHome.ca have members post tuning information online for any wild feeds they find when doing a blind scan so that other members can quickly tune into an event by manually adding and scanning a specific transponder. |
