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contact ASTRA Their London address is:
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LONDON
WC2R 0AP
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[Highlight] ALL Channels have symbol rate of 27.5 and an F.E.C. of 2/3,
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If you see, [pids at zero], you won’t normally be able to view this with a Digibox
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Never miss a show on Sky (Reg; Requ’d)
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Site exclusively for Freeview
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Local TV on Freeview - new Ofcom maps
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Future DAB Transmitters
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If you have any questions about UK/Irish Satellite TV (i.e.; sky),
(NOT programming), on the ASTRA system
contact ASTRA Their London address is:
ASTRA (GB) Limited
7th Floor
Wellington House
125 Strand
LONDON
WC2R 0AP
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If you have any questions about UK/Irish Satellite TV (ie; sky),
(NOT programming), on the eutelsat system
Click Here
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For Programming/Billing ONLY
Contact SKY
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The FREESAT Site
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Need a code for your Remote?
Look Here in PDF format
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Having trouble resetting your Philips digital tv?
Call this freephone Number:- 0800-331-6051
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Help Support
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Keep Your Kids Safe on the net Here!
Or Here!
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Bringing Rails Back to the Scottish Borders
New member’s area.
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PLEASE NOTE
[Highlight] ALL Channels have symbol rate of 27.5 and an F.E.C. of 2/3,
Except, where listed. [/highlight]
If you see, [pids at zero], you won’t normally be able to view this with a Digibox
Txp# 51. 10.862 H SR 22.000 FEC 5/6
9012______No Signal (Digi Man)
Txp# 54. 10.906 V SR 22.000 FEC 5/6
10225_____Still Showing STV+1 (Digi Man)
Txp# 55 10.921 H SR 22.000 FEC 5/6
3811_____TCM HD (jimbo)
Txp# 56. 10.936 V DVB-S2 23.000 FEC 8/9 (plymouthbloke1974)
3855______Still Showing STV HD, (jimbo/jzee/obrienmichael05/Analoguesat)
Txp# 59 10.994 H SR 22.000 FEC 5/6
12130______Showing ITV1 Granada (jimbo)
€urobird 1
Txp# C1L 11.222 H
52070______Showing films from the African continent (obrienmichael05/Digi Man)
Txp# D9S 11.623 H
50889_____No signal (jimbo)
Astra
Txp# 4. 11.778 V
8010______No signal (Analoguesat/Digi Man)
Txp# 7. 11.836 H
9006______Showing Sky Movies Family (Analoguesat/The Unknown One)
Txp# 9. 11.876 H
D SD _____Showing Discovery SD (Digi Man/skyisthebest)
D SD.+1___Showing Discovery SD +1 (obrienmichael05/skyisthebest)
D RT _____Showing Discovery Real Time (obrienmichael05/skyisthebest)
Txp# 21. 12.110 H
1303______No Signal (Digi Man/spark22/Digi Man)
1413______ No Signal (Digi Man)
Txp# 26. 12.207 V
1441______No Signal (Digi Man/jimbo)
8039______Showing Sky News FTA (Analoguesat)
4624______Showing Pick TV +1(jimbo)
Txp# 31 12.304 H SR 29.500 FEC3/4
4009______Showing British Eurosport 2 (Ragnarok)
Txp# 32. 12.324 V DVB-S2 MPEG4 HD
D HD _____Showing Discovery HD (jimbo)
Txp# 34. 12.363 V DVB-S2 MPEG4 HD
3837______No Signal (jimbo)
3838______Showing Sky Sports F1 HD (jimbo)
€urobird 1
Txp# F4U 12.643 V.
54345______Black Level (Digi Man)
Txp# F6L 12.691 V SR 7199 DVB-S2 QPSK ACM
Data Channel (remlap)
12.731 H SR 4444 DVB-S QPSK
Data Channel (remlap)
Not all of the above will be available to Digiboxes.
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[highlight]Coming Soon[/highlight]
All information is given in good faith,
but things change fast in the world of satellite TV
one thing is certain, many of these channels may never appear.
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[highlight]Coming Soon[/highlight]
All information is given in good faith,
but things change fast in the world of satellite TV
one thing is certain, many of these channels may never appear.
September
Rishtey TV 3rd (ashyuk)
British Eurosport 2 HD to launch on 3rd (spark22)
Global Radio set to launch two music TV channels on Sky this September: Capital TV & Heart TV via their twitter @RadioToday More (ashyuk)
TCM-HD 17th
SKY Atlantic+1 24th (garyessex)
SKY1 +1 (garyessex)
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Soon
Hindi Music Channel Khushboo
Levant TV (zak2012)
Racing HD
QVC-HD (SKYtvFREAK)
QVC-HD
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In 2013/14
RT HD 2013
Astras 2E 2F & 2G launching from 2012 -2014
From end of 2014 The Return of the Borders Railway.
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Other New Channels licenced by Ofcom (no launch dates yet.)
Listed by Genre,
Newest ones first. (Many thanks to Analoguesat/GrahamBCFC).
HD Channels
RT HD Jan 2013
Star Gold
TCM (Radiomike) [Now Testing]
More 4 (Radiomike)
CBS Action (Paddy C)
CBS Drama (Paddy C)
QVC
Racing
Travel Channel (omnidirectional )
A New global Classical HDTV channel
CNN
General Entertainment
The Outdoor Channel
Fly TV
Showcase 3
Showcase 4
Films
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Lifestyle
Home and Garden TV
Factual / Documentary
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News
RT UK version
English Version of Zee News
Sports
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Kids
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Music
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Shopping
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Religion
ACBN
ACT (All Communities Together)
Niche
Veria TV
Interactive / Gambling
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Foreign Language
Three Sunrise TV channels (Analoguesat)
Sony Aath
Zoom TV
Radio
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Adult
redhot TV 3D (GrahamBCFC)
Television X 3D(GrahamBCFC)
3D Channels
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1. The digital switch-over has quietly commenced at four BBC local radio stations in England, RadioToday.co.uk can reveal. BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Nottingham have all stopped broadcasting regular programmes on medium wave, instead directing listeners to FM or DAB. It’s part of a five week trial to make savings and to find out if listeners will miss or complain about the lack of AM services. The BBC told RadioToday.co.uk: “MW services mainly duplicate what is already available on FM and DAB, and most listeners will be able to hear their local stations on FM. The BBC is also committed to a full roll out of local radio stations across the DAB network. If local radio is not already available on DAB it will be in the future. Full Details
2. Southport’s Dune FM has stopped broadcasting after Ofcom had to physically remove the station’s transmitter. The company which owned the licence was subject to a winding-up order on July 9th, meaning licence became void. Ofcom rules state that a company which has been wound-up cannot own a broadcasting licence. The regulator had been in touch with the station recently to request they stopped broadcasting – a request which was apparently ignored by those in charge at Dune FM. More.
3. Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered an investigation into Global Radio's £70m deal to acquire GMG Radio, on the grounds of potential competition and plurality issues. The secretary of state has issued an intervention notice ordering media regulator Ofcom to conduct an investigation into potential media plurality issues raised by combining the largest and third largest radio groups in the UK. However, Global Radio's deal to buy GMG Radio has been completed and cannot be de-railed by any potential regulatory issues. Global – the parent company of brands including Capital, Heart and Classic FM – announced the deal to takeover GMG Radio's Smooth and Real Radio brands in late June. Global Radio has already applied for the deal to be put through a fast-track investigation process by the Competition Commission. More.
4. BBC Commissioning has released tender details of the new all-local radio evening programme, which is set to start on January 7th 2013. The speech-led show, to be broadcast on all 39 local radio stations in England, will air from 7pm till 10pm. Applications are invited from all independent production companies who can clearly demonstrate relevant experience and expertise, the BBC says. All offers should reach them by 12 noon on August 23rd 2012, with decisions made by September 14th More.
5. Radioplayer is to open up its service to non-Ofcom licensed stations, but initially only 30 slots are being offered. Any stations interested in joining – for a fee – can fill out an application for review. The online player currently features over 300 Ofcom licensed live stations, 15,000 on-demand items, and attracts 7 million regular listeners. More
[highlight] Other Radio Bits [/highlight]
• First pirate radio station closed down by post office authorities. Brothers Gerald and Wilfred Barker of Norwich are forced to close their radio station down by the BBC:
they recount the tale Here
• For those of you who remember Dutch offshore broadcasting before it was onboard any ship, may find this interesting
• The DAB / FM story trolls on…More
• Ofcom has produced a fact sheet on its work in tackling illegal broadcasting
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[highlight]Newsie Bits[/highlight]
[highlight]Newsie Bits[/highlight]
1. Praise TV has had its licence revoked.Ofcom quotes; In the course of the correspondence with Ofcom, statements made by Destiny Broadcasting Network Europe Limited about the operation of the Licensed Service failed to satisfy Ofcom that the Licensee had general control over which programmes and other services were comprised in the Licensed Service. Ofcom therefore concluded that Destiny Broadcasting Network Europe Limited had ceased to provide the Licensed Service in accordance with section 362(2) of the Act and that, accordingly, it was appropriate to revoke TLCS Licence 1482 under Condition 29(2)(a) of that Licence. In addition, and in the alternative, Ofcom was satisfied that in the course of correspondence with Ofcom, the Licensee, in purporting to comply with any of the Conditions of the Licence, provided information which was false in a material particular or withheld any material information with the intention of causing Ofcom to be misled. Accordingly it was appropriate to revoke TLCS Licence 1482 under Condition 29(2)(b) of that Licence. The Licence was revoked on 15th August 2012. Full Details
2. RT will launch an HD variant soon on Sky (but not until January 2013, due to Sky's launch queue length) This might be earlier on non 28.5 satellites also RT is launching a UK specific variant mid September initially modest UK derived and oriented content, but building quite quickly. (Sources)
3. THIRTY-five posts have been earmarked for redundancy at BBC Scotland, as part of a cutbacks announcement made last year. In October, it was announced that between 100 and 120 posts were at risk of redundancy between then and the financial year 2016-17, as a result of a review, titled ‘Delivering Quality First’, that followed negotiations the previous year between the Westminster government and the BBC that led to the licence fee being frozen for six years. For BBC Scotland that meant a 16 per cent budget cut, translated to a £16.1 million each year cut from an annual budget of £102 million. Thirty-nine posts have already gone and when the 35, now earmarked for redundancy by the end of March, are added, the running total will be 74. More.
4. Ofcom has approved an application by Everything Everywhere, owner of the Orange and T-Mobile networks, to use its existing 1800 MHz spectrum to deliver 4G services. Following a consultation, Ofcom has concluded that varying Everything Everywhere's 1800 MHz licences now will deliver "significant benefits" to consumers and outweigh any competition concerns. More.
5. ITV has denied it is interested in airing any of BT's Premier League matches, but admitted that it is planning to pitch for the £100m-plus contract to produce the telecoms company's live football coverage. BT, which owns the BT Vision subscription video-on-demand service, will formally put out a three-year tender, valued at between £100m and £132m, for the contract to produce its football coverage and has opened early stage talks with ITV about a potential partnership. ITV intends to pitch for the business. Production subsidiary ITV Studios already makes the English-language commentary for Al-Jazeera's Sports, fronted by Gary Lineker, Ruud Gullit, Alan Shearer and Terry Venables, for expats throughout the Middle East. More.
6. DMOL, the industry backed organisation for the management of the UK DTT platform, has published the findings of its review into the Freeview numbering system. In changes slated to be introduced on 19th September, DMOL plans to create additional capacity for new services and make the guide easier to navigate. As part of the update new channel numbers will be reserved for public service local TV channels. These are 8 in England and Northern Ireland and 45 in Wales and Scotland, such a scheme as long been favoured by government as part of its plans to create a nationwide chain of local TV services. More. and Following a consultation earlier in the year, from lunchtime on Wednesday 19th September, you will have to retune to get the new numbers allocated to some Freeview channels; in particular those used for News, Adult, Children and high definition services. More.
7. A list of the local applicants for the local TV services have been published by Ofcom
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Researchers in South Korea have developed new technology that could enable 3D television and cinema to be viewed without glasses. The team, from Seoul National University, created a slatted barrier that is placed on the screen itself and creates the illusion of depth in the viewer’s perception. Previous attempts at making glasses-free 3D TV have made use of a similar technology, but they required the screen to be viewed from a certain angle. More.
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[highlight] Shorts [/highlight]
KesterK reports that in the Sky+HD sub forum by another user,
TCM have aired a trailer saying TCM HD will launch on 17th September.
The trailer was snapped Sunday 19th August 2012 about 16:20 and is available on Youtube here
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Imagine Dil Se on Sky 831will be replaced by Rishtey TV.
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Digital Switchover News
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Following the decision by Ofcom to clear the entire 800 MHz segment of the UHF band,
currently used for television and to bring the UK in line with other parts of the world
with regards the frequencies to be reused for 4G/LTE mobile broadband,
a number of post-switchover retunes will need to be made during 2012/2013.
The first retune events start on the 3rd October.
Full Details
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This section below will close on 31st October
after the Digital Switchover has been concluded.
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Dates so far, Check with the Digital UK Switch over Website for Full Details
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1. Bilsdale, Chatton and Pontop Pike carrying the Tyne Tees Service,
will start 12th September 2012, completing on 26th September. (Radiomike)
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2. DSO dates for Northern Ireland Stage 1 on 10th October,
Stage 2 a fortnight later on 24th October. (Paddy C)
• Border (Completed)
• Granada (Completed)
• Wales (Completed)
• STV North {Grampian} (Completed)
• STV Central (Completed)
• Channel Is (Completed)
• West Country (Completed)
• West Region (Completed)
• Yorkshire (Completed)
• Central (Completed)
• Anglia (Completed)
• London (Completed)
• Meridian (Completed)
• Tyne Tees
UTV (a516)
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The BBC has published the full DTT Transmitter Timetable on its website, in region alpha order.
If you are on a relay, just find the appropriate main transmitter from the list. (a516)
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Digital Television Updates in full
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This story caught my interest UK's oldest working TV ready for digital
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Also a list of all UHF Stations
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[highlight] The Other Stuff [/highlight]
Sky’s Anytime-plus is now widely available to a wide range of internet providers More on this
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The ASTRA book "High Above - The untold story of ASTRA,
Europe's leading satellite company", here is its website! Full Details
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75 years of Television.
Celebrating the world's first ever television service
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Checkout if your BBC Only Terrestrial TV or Radio service
is affected by Transmitter Maintenance etc;
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For those of you who are interested in,
Regional TV for your area?
Here is a map.
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A list of all Main DTT Transmitter conversions which started in Oct 2007
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Some sites of further interest
FreeSat site
SES /Astra website.
Eutelsat website
Everything analogue
Get Free Digital TV Here
If you want to know more about WideScreen,
then this site is a must.
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[highlight] And now......
the credits;[/highlight]
Many thanks go to the regular contributors
of this thread.
They are, in no particular order,
Analoguesat , DigiMan, Skyisthebest, Sky Fan, James Vertigan,
swine1, Paddy C, Clacton Crew, lynam, plymouthbloke1974, astra19E, D.Sky D
Anthony Haines, Classics TV, Ian Cleverly, Digitalsatman, bendolino,.
Craigsteele2001, 2fabiola, Lunar, TV Duniya, matwood,
TV Ideas, i am not here, djrich, Disco, robcole2004, milktrolley,
Maccy, SKYtvFREAK, John Murray, tomvoxx, daniel99, IWantSky, & obrienmichael 05
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Forget your high definition pictures, plasma and LCD panels,
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A real TV doesn’t need all this fancy nonsense.
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As sky viewers we looked on at the failings when Humax Freesat boxes were unable to record or live pause the Olympic channels. Looks like its Sky's turn to mess up!
Checked the Humax Freesat box in the living room and that can live pause the channels.
Hope Sky/C4 sort it in time for the first events in the morning! Maybe the ability will be switched on when the channels officially launch which going by the EPG is 7am.
It was all fixed early this morning
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/itv-to-drop-1-from-flagship-in-rebrand/5045824.article
It's not the name that's the problem with ITV(1), it's the programmes, 99% of it is mindless reality crap or soaps
In fairness ITV have upped their game, certainly in terms of Drama and Documentaries.
Instead of writing this messages. In the further copy & paste in into google and it will read the intire section for u.
HOPE this clears up d matter.
Omar
Try this link
ITV1 HD Granada has now changed transponders on the Sky platform from 10936V to 10994H. 12130 has now been relabelled ITV1 HD and 10936V is now only carrying three services (Alibi HD, STV HD + ITV1 HD Central W).
Sadly the lip-sync on the new 10994H ITV1 HD is still a mile out, hopefully someone at ITV will notice this! The new ITV1 HD Granada service also now has DVB subtitles and Audio Description on selected programmes.
Source: Sky Programme Information website (not publicly available).
So i assume Sky Atlantic SD/HD will move right to the end of 230's?
Yes, it will go right at the end of the Entertainment Section unless Sky has bought out an EPG slot
The same will go for Sky 1, Sky 1 HD and Sky 1+ when the Sky 1+ channel launches, the EPG will need to be re-jigged then as well
Scottish Television first went on the air.
On Channel 10 (Band three VHF from the IBA transmitter at Blackhill.
Will launch on 317, well replace SD. No word yet of which other slot will be used as the SD
Another Movie channel in HD is a great addition. Just need Film4 now to come to Sky - when does the exclusivity end with Virgin?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a402975/tcm-movies-channel-launching-in-hd-on-sky.html
I suspect the exclusivity deal with Virgin ended some time ago. It would surprise me if the deal was for longer than a year. The non-appearance on Sky is likely to be due to contractual issues/discussions of one sort or another between Channel 4 and Sky.
May also explain the non appearance anywhere of More 4 HD despite C4's stated intentions to have it up and running by now, and possibly also the relegation by C4 of Channel 4 HD to the nether regions of Ch 230 on the Sky EPG.
At one time C4 was leading the way in HD amongst the PSBs but now seems to be doing the opposite.
12441V DVB-S2 QPSK SR 29500 FEC 3/4
Carrying a labelless service, which according to KoS is 3840x2160 in resolution. Obviously I can't get a picture on my Freesat box, so I'll just have to trust it unless my HTPC will do it (it's currently in pieces!). Anyone?
Source for both changes: Kingofsat, verified by me.
I wasn't aware SID 3851 was active again on 10936V. Just watching now, looks like it's ITV1 Granada. Are you saying for Sky viewers that the EPG LCN 178 has been novated back to 10936V?
Thats is pure Video channel no audio playing a 4k sample video on a loop.
here are some PNG screenshots that i could actually upload, 10MB file size limit
http://i.imgbox.com/abl0bZKq.png
http://i.imgbox.com/aclZ8dZ6.png
http://i.imgbox.com/abgCpyEZ.png
There is more video in a city and in a container port with even more detail that take the lossless image file over 10 MB.
http://i.imgbox.com/abfHJtQ7.jpg
http://i.imgbox.com/adtKNFeI.jpg
No, just there WAS a 3851 label on 10994H right after the previous one was renamed to ITV1 HD (ie an "extra" label with the old name that seems to happen occasionally) broadcasting nothing; now it's on 10936V broadcasting ITV1 HD. I don't have Sky.
SID 3851 was the original ITV1HD on 10936V, it obviously appeared on 10994H for a few hours mapped to the same APID and VPIDS as 12130 (the new ITV1HD) during the TP move and was then removed from 10994H. It appears Sky do this occasionally, like you noticed, possibly to avoid disruption to existing receivers tuned to the service during the TP change - the same happened with C4 from EB1 to it's Astra 1N TP.
I'm wondering if ITV wanted 10936V re-activating so they can resolve this lip-sync issue as that was, and still is, spot-on. Saying this, the new one on 10994H now also appears to be sorted too, I think just before 6pm it was still out of sync. Not that I confess to be a Black or Red viewer but it was on at home earlier on and I noticed Ant and Dec look in-sync. Just watching Jonathan Ross now and that also appears fine.
Is it normal on ITV1 London (SD) the AD soundtrack also falls silent during ads as the AD on ITV1HD Granada is working but still with no sound during ads!