TV News
- Aug 1
- 2 min read
August – just another two months of the intense heat and we will need a log delivery for the wood burner. This year seems to have been more difficult to cope with than previous – maybe it’s just my age!
However, only one more month until we get our roads, beaches, shops, restaurants and car parks back – Madrid will have gone home. Although the two months of July and August, whilst frustrating for the locals, is the life blood of many businesses and they would not survive without that boost. I just get frustrated when I have to allow 30 minutes to get to Bolnuevo – a 10 minute journey in winter!
Casa Rainbow is fine – plants soaked once a week and dogs that do not go out in the midday sun – but happy to play all night!
TV news …………. We still get asked if we can come and fix UK satellite systems – mainly by people with holiday homes arriving for the first time in months. Unfortunately, for 24/7 all channel reception the answer is no, we cannot fix it. We probably can get CH5 and a few others but BBC, ITV, CH4 are just not available all day every day. When the channels went HD they also went to frequencies that are marginal in southern Spain – add in the weaker summer signals and the result is no TV! Some may come back in the autumn/winter but we doubt full channel coverage.
Internet TV is the way forward – ALL TV will be by this transmission service in the not too distant future. Most of us have access to fibre these days – generally excellent for TV viewing. Those with no fibre access now have Starlink – again excellent quality internet. We reported free equipment availability (save 360€) in the last newsletter but by the time it was published the offer had ceased but is now back again. If you want Starlink look at the offers each day until you get the one you want – it takes 2 minutes on the Starlink website to check offers.
They did have the ‘mini on free’ offer for a while and we installed one the other day – the problem is that the router is located within the antenna which is great for camping / caravanning but not so good for homes – you would need to run an ethernet cable from antenna to indoor router site. Rainbow has lots of Starlink experience now – we can offer advice and installation packs.
We at Rainbow can usually help all nationalities get their own TV – unfortunately our language skills are fairly limited but WhatsApp a message to us and Google translate can help us chat to each other!
That’s it for August – more TV information in September 2025.
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