English TV programmes

Yes Richard -thank you When madscott says you only need to have a good aerial he is talking about Freeview you can get a box from Carrefour for additional Spanish stations much the same as you can for extra stations in UK for when the analogue signal is switched off. However Free to Air is different and requires a dish and I think a big one as you say.Even then I am unsure what it would pick up in this location due to the high sides of the valley at Mogan. In UK i use 3 internet -a chinese company in Hong Kong based in Uk at Glasgow 5Gb a month £15 a month.Can only use UK services at very high rates. So the options in GC appear to be for mobile internet Moviestar (telefonica) and Vodaphone -a Uk modem I don't think works in GC and you have to buy a local one and for unlimited monthly useage costs about 39euro a month for either. I am unsure if this requires an annual contract or whether one can buy complete months -that I would prefer as I intend to remain UK resident initially so will not be in GC every month. I have not detected any other ISP's ha-it seems they need more competition !!!-but it seems mobile internet plus one of the American channels is relatively easy to set up whilst investigating further the possibility of accessing via a Free to Air receiver and satellite dish.

Is an alternative to sign up to one of these packages from American companies for one off charge and plug into your TV using mobile internet from Carrefour?

Have a look at this page, http://grancanariaguru.com/watch-uk-tv-gran-canaria it has a couple of useful telephone numbers of specialists who may be able to help, richard

Thanks again Madscott. Will bring out my spare free to Air box when next out in April and will let you know how get on. Maybesee you there. Cheers !

Thank-you madscott for reply. My brother tells me no problem Hotbird 13E as high in sky but it might depend on size of dish ?

I would be pleased if someone could advise on my options here -I think I might have restricted satellite availablity so I will not get Hotbird stations like TVE Bloomberg etc. What can I get. Altenatively is cable available -any idea of cost. In UK I use a free to air bought from Technomate in East London -and have a spare one -might that work. I suspect would need large disc to get anything. Responses would be much appreciated

friend there who had an english package through Sky and also if you sign up to orange you can get free UK calls from GC! online school psychology degrees thanks

I think some digital satellite tv companies offers some good international programming mainly dishnet i think is better then DTV.

Thanks Guys - I am in the UK at present (very cold today) but I return in April - so I will try your advice and let you know what happens?

Kindest regards

Just in case some people don't know, if you don't want the expense of getting canal plus or sky you can buy a freeview box for under 40 euros and watch at least 12 spanish channels that broadcast shows in the original version, lots of movies and documentaries for example. If you like football there are at least 6 matches live every weekend including 2 premiership games although the commentary is in spanish but you don't have a commentator when you go to a game so to me that's not really important. One of the channels is sony entertainment which is almost exclusively english. What you need to do is find the "audio" button on the remote, press this whilst watching a channel and if it offers you the chance to change it away from spanish, take it and after that the box will remember to change anything to english automatically from then on. The amount of channels you'll receive are down to how good your aerial is, personally we have 31 channels of which we can change 12 to "version original" Among the programmes we watch are Desperate housewives, lost, CSI, Will & Grace, Becker, Married with children, Criminal minds, Dexter and many others. Going back to football, on a Monday night one of the channels (I can't remember which) gives a full round up of all the premiership matches from the weekend including every goal scored, hope this helps

Hello Folks - I saw this advert in Island Connections newspaper. The website seems impressive and the deal looks good. Does anyone have any knowledge of this company and its ability to provide TV in Gran Canaria?

Hi, there are a few options for cable TV here. Have a look at this page for some basic info and links - http://www.grancanariaguru.com/gran_canaria_telephone . Cable TV doesn't have BBC or SKY or any British channels but it has American channels such as FOX and many programmes in English. The sport is excellent too but with Spanish commentary. Hope this helps.

Hi, you can get SKY here in GC. A friend of ours has it in the north of the Island in Teror. The dish, box and initial set up cost €700. They did it through a German guy called Chris. His mobile is 685622043.

Hey, I have heard from a friend there who had an english package through Sky and also if you sign up to orange you can get free UK calls from GC!