Lost some freeview channels.

[jigman1]

Can anyone help? I retuned my 28" sony digital TV(with built in Freeview system) last week and when it finished tuning I found that I had lost all my news channels and CBBC the kids channel. No amount of retuning will bring them back. My wall mounted aerial is not a freeview one its very old but I didn't change it when I bought the tv because the picture quality was ( and still is) so good.Does anyone know whether me upgrading the aerial will bring back my lost channels, and if yes whats the cheapest/best one to buy and where to get it from. Or has anyone experienced similar problems and can help. thanks.

[commoner]

Hi jigman......I personally have never been able to get satisfaction with Freeview without a decent aerial........I live near Barnsley, South Yorkshire and no amount of fiddling would get me a signal for the Freeview channels until I installed an aerial in my roofspace............I got the 18 element outdoor or loft model from Maplin Electronics at �19.99 and as I said installed it in the roofspace ....I now get all the channels and share the aerial with two TV's

this link should get you to the page....or just Google
Maplins..........good luck..........commoner. ;-)

http://www.maplin.co.uk/searchpages/LOFT_AERIAL.htm

[jon1968]

Not being funny but are you sure they haven't just moved? When did you last retune it? They all shuffled around a few months ago when More4 started. News starts at 80 now. If not then what I had to do with my box was switch it off at the mains-wait a couple of minutes-then plug it back in to reset it. Don�t know why but this worked!

[jigman1]

Thank you for your answers.

[silversver]

I had the same thing happen to me with my bush freeview i retuned mine and the channels reappeared look on other channel numbers they sometimes move when you retune. Good luck.