topic Re: cannot use television as NOT PROGRAMMED sign on screen in Sky Q

cannot use television as NOT PROGRAMMED sign on screen

Scully3 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:46 GMT

Cannot used television because NOT PROGRAMMED on screen

Re: cannot use television as NOT PROGRAMMED sign on screen

xenon81 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:06:34 GMT

That's a problem with your TV. It sounds like it's on the wrong input. Use your TV remote (not Sky remote) to switch it to HDMI1 or whichever input Sky is connected to.

Re: cannot use television as NOT PROGRAMMED sign on screen

TimmyBGood — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:26:07 GMT

@Scully3

As @xenon81 indicates, 'NOT PROGRAMMED' is a distinctly unhelpful message being generated by the television set which is supposed to indicate that it's trying to display content arriving through a built-in digital terrestrial tuner, but hasn't been able to successfully scan for channels (typically because there's no aerial attached)

Quite why television UI designers think this is useful wording remains a mystery.