Comments on: ONE SD coming to Foxtel cable

By: Livo

Livo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:48:37 +0000

Any idea of when this channel will become available on foxtel in Canberra? we have recently been given One through FTA, but still unable to pickup this channel on foxtel

By: onesd

onesd — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:08:58 +0000

One SD began on Foxtel Digital cable channel 531 sometime between midnight and 8 am Sydney time on July 1.

I have no idea how Foxtel select channel numbers, I would have thought they would have given One SD number 510, but I think they wanted to group it away from the Foxtel package sports channels, so the non Foxtel sports channels Setanta Sports and One SD are together at 525 and 531. They probably said to One we are going to put you after TVN which is 522, so One, since they couldn’t choose 510, probably chose 531 as it was the first number they could pick that ends with a 1.

Not many One events interest me. I will only watch a few events on One like F1, NBA and a few golf tournaments. All other sports I’ll watch on Fox Sports, ESPN, Setanta, and other free to air channels.

By: damo

damo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:26:27 +0000

it hasnt come on optus yet for today. i wonder if it will come on later like sbs 2

By: Christian Kent

Christian Kent — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:13 +0000

Does anyone know how they pick their channel numbers??

Do they do a magic spell incantation, flip some cards and then subtract the number they first thought of?

The last rearrangement of the 600s was especially weird because it caused more crowding (not less) in the news channels at the low end, so that now all the news channels are crammed in between 601 and 607. No room for anything else, like Al-Jazeera or France 24 or CCTV or many many others (let alone non-English news channels).

By: onesd

onesd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:19 +0000

What time on Wednesday July 1 does it begin?

There is still no channel 531 listed on the Foxtel EPG at 10:24 pm about an hour and a half from it being July 1.

Will it start at midnight tonight June 30 going into July 1 or not until the evening of July 1?

It amazes me that absolutely nobody at Foxtel Customer Service or departments at the North Ryde Head Office know anything about One SD starting on July 1.

They have taken so long to finally do this.

I still think One will be the poor cousin of Fox Sports.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:01:37 +0000

will this be applicable to Optus TV as well?

By: Tbone23

Tbone23 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:36:47 +0000

Thanks for the update David.

By: Rutzie

Rutzie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:09:08 +0000

Thanks for the update David. Been waiting patiently ever since you gave us the news about foxtel carrying it. Channel 510 would have made more sense.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:01:43 +0000

Sorry Craig but I wouldn’t bother checking the Austar box. Although ONE’s content is pretty much national, it still has local ads which means Austar cannot broadcast the channel due to licensing issues.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:28:53 +0000

Perfect number. 5freeOne!

(bad joke…)

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:20:19 +0000

I’ll check my Austar box July 1st… just in case.

But July 2nd we get ONE HD on channel 50, Southern Cross Ten, pity we don’t get it on SD for those with older sets or DVRs that only have SD tuners!