topic Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1 in TV

Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:42:42 GMT

We have returned our box so many times now I'm at my wits end. But we can only get it to pick up Calendar, our local news station on ITV1 , if we're on the HD channels we get Granada, which is nothing to do with us locally. Can anyone help? We need local news station!!! 🙏 getting desperate now

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Midnight_Voice — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:57:46 GMT

@maz8462

There are various limitations that produce situations like this.

I’m going to deduce that you are operating a Box Pro in Aerial Mode, as that is the only EETV setup that will allow you to have itv1 in either SD (channel 3) or HD (channel 103). True?

What I’d like you to do is

(i) look at the channels above 732 to see if any alternate itv1 channels are listed there, and what news they get, and

(ii) retune your TV and see what itv1 channels you get with what news, including above 732,

and report back.

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:29:57 GMT

Hi,

800 gave us Tyne tees, a retune gave us Yorkshire (thank you) but still can't get the retune to give us Yorkshire on the hd channels.

Appreciate the help BTW. New to all this been with sky for 25 years!!

Regards

Maz8462

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Timbo45 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:00:55 GMT

@maz8462

I don't have a Pro box but assume that it works as my T4000.

When you retune do you get the option of selecting the area you want? In my case I get Greater London and South East and choose Greater London and then get BBC & ITV London for both SD & HD.

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Midnight_Voice — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:28:08 GMT

@maz8462

The idea was to see if your TV did the same thing as the Box Pro.

If so, the problem is to do with the transmitters in your area, and it’s not just a Box Pro quirk.

If not, there may be a Box Pro quirk.

Is Yorkshire synonymous with Calendar? Being a soft Southerner, I’m not familiar with what stuff is called up there - so I’m still not clear if the TV check exonerates the Box Pro, entirely, partially, or not all 😢

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:35:10 GMT

Hi midnight voice, think I've pressed the wrong button!!

Yes, Yorkshire area is calendar, so sorry. And there is no solution. We're still struggling with granada on hd channels.

Maz8462

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:36:50 GMT

Hi Timbo,

Yes we get the option. And chose the leeds, Yorkshire area. Which works on all stations, that are not hd, these stay as granada! It's silly!

Maz8462

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:37:51 GMT

Hi midnight voice, think I've pressed the wrong button!!

Yes, Yorkshire area is calendar, so sorry. And there is no solution. We're still struggling with granada on hd channels.

Maz8462

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Midnight_Voice — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:41:23 GMT

@maz8462

You can press it again, and it will un-solution it.

Especially if you wanted to choose somebody else’s post as the solution….. 😛

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Richardr66 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:45:51 GMT

I think it is the case that on Freeview, ITV only broadcast a few regions in HD, and I believe everyone who gets the Yorkshire region in SD gets the Granada region in HD. Using the aerial input there is no way around that.

The ITV regions are correct on other platforms. I'm not in your area, but I would imagine that using the internet mode rather than the aerial mode will give you Yorkshire in HD [where I am I can get Anglia West HD in internet mode, a region also not on Freeview HD]. There are of course other pros and cons of aerial mode vs internet mode.

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Midnight_Voice — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:51:49 GMT

A Box Pro in Aerial Mode, plus a Box Mini, which is de facto in IP Mode, lets you cover all the bases.

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

maz8462 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:57:14 GMT

@Richardr66

Internet mode? Aerial mode? This is all going waaaaay over my head. Hubby has looked at the back of the box and it would appear they have put an aerial cable in. But if he pulls is out there's no sound.

I to have to pay someone to come out and sort it. It's just beyond me.

Thank you

Maz8462

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Midnight_Voice — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:20:54 GMT

@maz8462

They? Who are/were ‘they’?

But the thing I hope we have established (though it’s not entirely clear) is that your TV does exactly the same thing that the Pro box does, so this isn’t a problem with EETV, it’s a problem with what the broadcasters supply in your area.

As regards internet mode (IP Mode) then if you happen to have a Box Mini as well as the Box Pro, then this works in IP Mode, where the channels come over the internet from EETV, and not over an aerial. Which means that possibly your HD itv channel there would carry Calendar. But if it didn’t, you would be worse off, as there are no SD channels in IP Mode at all.

If you don’t have a Box Mini, though, then you could put the Box Pro in IP Mode. But this involves all sorts of limitations you perhaps don’t want to get tangled up in, especially if it doesn’t give you Calendar in HD.

And these things are so region-specific that even somebody living quite close to you might get different results than you would get, if they tried this on your behalf.

So I think the best thing to do would be for us to ask EETV if there is any prospect of you getting Calendar in HD, given where you live, and if so, how.

Re: Local news is Calendar, can only get on ITV1

Richardr66 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:39:50 GMT

It is quite confusing. https://ee.co.uk/help/tv-sport/manage-use/modes is the help page.

Calendar (and the Yorkshire region as a whole) isn't broadcast by ITV in HD in aerial mode. This is the same for any receiver using an aerial in your area.

Thus there are three choices via the EE TV box to my mind:

watch the programme in SD - worse picture quality, but all that is available for the programme in aerial mode!
watch the BBC alternative; or
switch to internet mode.

How to do the latter is on the page linked to above. It does require a reset rather than just removing the aerial. The page gives more detail including the effect on recording. It will receive fewer channels, but it does include all of the BBC, ITV, C4, and C5 offshoot channels. The ITV channels are in better quality than aerial mode - they are all HD and ITV1 is the right region in HD.