I have a Sky digibox hooked up to my television. The problem being I miss out on some free to air channels like C4 and C5 etc as I don't have a viewing card. Are they anywhere I can buy a viewing card so I get all the free to air channels? Is Sky Sports News free to air on Digital or is that just freeview?

Sky do Freesat viewing cards for £20. You wont get Sky Sports news but do get things like E4 and Film4.

Freesat from Sky - 08442 41 16 02.

I will give them a phone tomorrow, thanks. That will tide me over until the local transmitter goes digital. I already have E4 and Film Four, without a viewing card I don't get C4 and the C5 channels. Hence my need for the viewing card. Much appreciated. I hope Raith have a better season this year....

You can manually tune a FTA version of C4:

Services -> 4 -> 4.

Enter the following:

10729
V
22.0
5/6

Highlight "Find Channels" and press "Select". When the list appears, scroll down to 8350 and press Yellow. Press Select.

To access it, Services-> 9. Then just highlight it, press Select and away you go.

Should be renamed £20Sat

In the same way that the BBC/ITV 'Freesat' should be '£150Sat' I suppose...

The channels are free, the card is £20, same with freeview really, its free, the boxes arent.