Television

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Contents 1 General Situation 2 Television from Australia in Australia 3 Television from Australia in Europe 3.1 Via Satellite 3.1.1 BBC 3.1.2 Eurosport 2 3.2 Via Internet 4 Television from Europe in Australia 4.1 Via Internet

General Situation

Unfortunately, the television-program from Australia is not directly availavle at overseas. The same is problem is the other way round, the television program from Europe is not directly available in Australia. The main-problem is the earth curvature so that the requested satellites are below the horizons and cannot be headed with a satellite-antenna. Another problem is the forwarding of the programs via other satellites. Consequently it would be technically possible to distribute a live-program over the globe, but then, there are still the people with all the commercial interests. The costs of licences are to high because of this licences are bought only limited for small regional areas.

Television from Australia in Australia

Australia has a small offer of free-to-air programs:

• http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Australia.html
• http://www.lyngsat.com/freeradio/Australia.html

In the Pay-TV however, you find a large number of interesting stations. Television with this international offer becomes really interesting. There, also the "big" ones are represented:

• http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/foxtel.html
• http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/aurora.html

For the Asian/Pacific region:

• http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/asia.html

The fans of cable television find a lot at Foxtel.

Television from Australia in Europe

Via Satellite

In the German cable you find nothing. But via satellite you can receive the program of some station.

The program transmitted at Eutelsat W6 is receiveable in Europe but the laguage is not English:

• http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Australia.html

BBC

In Europe sometime news and sports are retransmitted live by the British BBC. You find this transmissions at the satellite Astra 2B at 28,2°East digital and uncrypted (FTA) in 16:9 anamorph widescreen.

Here the technical data für your receiver:

• Orbital position: 28,2°East
• Format: DVB-S
• Freq.: 12441 Vertikal
• Transponder 38
• Symbolrate: 27500 2/3

After a search-run, your satellit-receiver will find the programs Stream-0 to Stream-6. You must change the type from data to tv because this is special for the programs of the BBC interactive - the additional canals.

More information to receive TV via satallite you find at Lyngsat at: http://www.lyngsat.com/astra2b.html

Eurosport 2

In Germany and other countries you can view in the Pay-TV Eurosport 2. This sation shows somtimes sports of Australia. In the past you could watch the AFL - Australian Football League 2008 timeshifted in summery in Germany.

Via Internet

A good alternative is the reception from Video On Demand via internet. I recommend the current news of ABC (without costs):

• http://www.abc.net.au/vod/default.htm

Television from Europe in Australia

Via Internet

The most extensive offers are to be found in the Mediatheken of ARD and ZDF:

• ARD Mediathek
• ZDF Mediathek

The 20 o'clock Tagesschau is transmitted live in the internet (without sports).