I am back staying at Holiday Inn Sydney Airport for two nights this week.
Since my last visit, hotel management have mostly fixed the issue of channel names (FTA and Foxtel) not matching. Every FTA channel listed in the directory can be received (including HD channels of Seven, 7mate and SBS Viceland).
The Foxtel channels have slightly changed too since seven months ago. The new line up is
Fox Cricket
Fox League
Fox Sports 503
FOX8
Dreamworks
MTV 80s
TLC
Sky News - no signal
That channel rebranded to MTV 80s within the past few months. Should they have changed it by now?
Staying at a new Sydney hotel, which has another nonsensical bespoke LCN layout (pics below)
To make matters worse, the TV is a new 65 inch Samsung that has a very basic remote with no numerical keypad and only about 7 buttons.
At least all channels are HD where available and there’s a good selection of FOXTEL channels
Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane has all the FTZ channels as broadcast with the correct LCN including ABC and SBS radio.
Also, starting in the 100’s are a selection of movie channels that have a menu with the schedule, some local radio stations and several channels related to health. Hill is the provider.
Holiday Inn Geelong bespoke LCN.guide
Even though its a pretty new hotel, 10Shake is already incorrect!
On holiday at the moment on the other side of the Tasman, the hotel I’m staying at in this small town (Taihape) only has a handful of Freeview stations (Taihape being outside of the UHF coverage area is served by satellite Freeview but most of these channels are missing too) along with a handful of Sky stations, all fed through the internal coaxial system via UHF, a slightly odd setup.
1- TVNZ 1
2- TVNZ 2
3- Three
15- Sky Open
30- Sky Movies Premiere
31- Sky Movies Comedy
51- Sky Sport 1
52- Sky Sport 2
53- Sky Sport 3
60- ESPN
85- Sky News
101- Nick
Good God, what on earth are you doing in Taihape? There’s nothing there!
Sounds like an old-school setup… except the channel numbers don’t make a lot of sense… If Sky Open was on Channel 4, I’d say they were passing it through to each room in analogue, but they can’t be, right?
Passing through on a road trip from Wellington up to Rotorua (and eventually Auckland) and decided to break the trip north up a bit.
I saw the giant gumboot, that was literally about the only notable or interesting thing lol.
I did a bit more digging into the settings, curiously it was being passed through on 4 digital multiplexes between UHF 25-28, with 3 channels per multiplex (for the 12 channels in total).
Seems to be an appropriate spot for this - I’ve stayed in a number of hotels/motels who’ve all ditched Foxtel in favour of some kind of chromecast offering, two of which had gone all in on Foxtel’s multiroom delivery system
A number of them need to stop advertising that they have Foxtel on offer too
