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Forces TV

24 hour factual channel devoted to the work of the armed forces and the world of defence news, features, documentaries and live coverage of the armed forces and all they do.

Main TV standard-definiton channels

How to Watch: Forces TV

Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

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Main TV standard-definiton channels

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	Forces TV

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

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Comments

Sunday, 28 June 2020

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1:37 PM

Francis James Blackwell: At that postcode, you are predicted to have very good of all

See for yourself:

Go to the Checker page

Platform management | Freeview

Enter your postcode and house name or number and click on Check

We need to verify that your is pointing at the right .

It will be helpful, firstly, to us to know the make and model of your .

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Thursday, 13 August 2020

George Barnes
1:57 PM

As an ex veteran, is there any reason since a retune that I cannot receive Forces TV.
Cheers

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StevensOnln1

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3:07 PM

George Barnes: Did you receive Forces TV previously? Forces TV is on the COM7 which is only broadcast from 25 main transmitters, so it may not be available from the you receive (if you provide a full postcode we can check).

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Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Tony Smith
1:16 PM

Can I watch Forces TV without having a please ?

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StevensOnln1

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1:35 PM

Tony Smith: You need a to watch any TV in the UK, either at the time it is broadcast or by recording it to watch later.

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Monday, 28 September 2020

JC
10:17 PM

George Barnes:

Like you I lost Forces TV after a recent retune - however if you find `Add New DVB ` or `Add New DVB Channels` (one or the other) on your `Tuning` menu in Setup, then AFTER your main retune, select either, let your machine do the searching, and hopefully you will get back Forces TV.

It did on my machine.

Good Luck

JC

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Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Chris.SE

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2:26 AM

JC:

A retune in recent days may have missed signals that could be weaker at your location such as COM7, possibly due to adverse weather conditions called "Tropospheric Ducting" see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.

It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all. At times it can wipe out your .
There are also periods when there is maintenance where signals may be weaker or off-air.

You are not advised to retune when your normal signals are suddenly missing or they are badly pixellated as this usually just clears correct tuning and you have to repeat a retune when signals are stable. You may have to repeat a retune several times if signals are still disrupted.

For which are on which see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview

If it's just one multiplex missing, you can try a manual retune for the particular UHF channel for that multiplex for your transmitter (will vary from transmitter to transmitter).

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Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Pete
10:45 AM

Dispite reading in the TV mag and checking availability that Forces TV is on 96, in the Greater area, I have re-tuned both my 'smart' TV and freview recorder, I am still unable to find this channel

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R curno
2:08 PM

Hi I live in ts15 area but can't get get forces 96 Chanel any ideas please

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Chris.SE

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4:34 PM

R curno:

Forces TV is on the COM7 , see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
You need a set with a T2/HD tuner to get HD multiplexes such as PSB3/BBCB HD and COM7. Do you get HD at LCNs101-105?
You may be in a location that cannot get the temporary COM7 multiplex which is lower than the others.
We need a full postcode to look at the predicted for your location.

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