Something is happening with Five
If you have a Sky card registered in Channel FIves “Region 2” , then you may be experiencing difficulties in the reception of FIVE.

Region 2 changed its Channel Five frequency. This covers everywhere outside Northern England, Scotland, and London.

Region 1: London
Region 2: South, Midlands, East, Wales, Northern Ireland
Region 3: North
region 4: Scotland

Not so sure about what defines the boundaries of region 1 and 3 though….

This is because the version of FIVE that serves this area has now stopped being transmitted from its “nice and easy Sky card” frequency of 12422H 27.5 2/3 and has been allocated the Freesat versions of FIVE - on 10773 H 22 5/6.

This means that this version of FIVE is only available as the same time as BBC2.

You can always programme into your “other channels” the other version of FIVE - 12422H 27.5 2/3 where there are still 3 other UK version of Five - North East and South.

Howver you can add the other Channel FIVE regions to your Sky box as below

On your Sky remote control:
Press Services
Press 4
Press 4
Type in the Frequency of
12422
H
27.5
2/3
And go to Find CHannels and Press Select.
On this frequency sites the other 3 FIVE regions.
Press the Yellow button and you wil place a TICK next to the top FIVE.
Press Select - and you get the channel line up complete.

You have now added a Sky card, strong signal FIVE to your Other Channels list.

To access this Press Services, and go to your Other Channels list and select FIVE.

Note if you have a Sky+ or Sky HD box then you will not be able to record any of the channels in your Other Channels list.

Could this be the first stage of FIVE becoming totally Free to Air in conjunction with the UKs Digital Switch over process??
Could this mean the end of the Freesat From Sky cards, as now all FIve main channels are now available on the Sky receivers?

Will try to keep you updates as ever when I know more….