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I suppose the most we can expect is a rebrand to the Fox name and no new channel launches even if a take over is imminent. So nothing worth getting excited about I feel.
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11.538 V SR 22000 FEC 5/6 DVB-S QPSK 22613 - colour bars with red border and 1kHz tone (clear) This will be Aplus Europe (Maybe this is a new channel or it may be "A Plus"[ from Pakistan. We'll have to wait and see) |
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I suppose the most we can expect is a rebrand to the Fox name and no new channel launches even if a take over is imminent. So nothing worth getting excited about I feel.
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Not sure about News as Fox News already exists so they may keep Sky News as a brand if all the others change. Australia has its own version of Sky News but sports are called Fox Sports 1,. 2 and 3 etc
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Sky Sports and One are iconic as they are, I highly doubt they'd rebrand those channels.
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Sky Sports and One are iconic as they are, I highly doubt they'd rebrand those channels.
Sky Sports (the one that is now Sky Sports 1) was "The Sports Channel" on BSB. This rebranded the day it started on Astra 19.2 East. - I think 15 April 1991 - but cannot remember the exact date. |
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Rebranding Sky channels to Fox would be a massive mistake from just a basic household known-manner.
Sky Sports is synonymous, Fox Sports in the UK isn't. Plus you have the issue of FOX UK, run by a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, that brings in a shit-ton of money to 21st Century Fox every year. Would look daft with 'FOX UK' 'FOX 1', 'FOX ATLANTIC', 'FOX ARTS' etc etc... Not to mention the FOX branded channels in Europe aswell as FOX SPORTS channels also on air in Europe. It will remain Sky. Question is, will it get regulatory approval? (LOL Of course it will, its a Tory Gov, who am i kidding....) |
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Rebranding Sky channels to Fox would be a massive mistake from just a basic household known-manner.
Sky Sports is synonymous, Fox Sports in the UK isn't. Plus you have the issue of FOX UK, run by a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, that brings in a shit-ton of money to 21st Century Fox every year. Would look daft with 'FOX UK' 'FOX 1', 'FOX ATLANTIC', 'FOX ARTS' etc etc... Not to mention the FOX branded channels in Europe aswell as FOX SPORTS channels also on air in Europe. It will remain Sky. Question is, will it get regulatory approval? (LOL Of course it will, its a Tory Gov, who am i kidding....) Let's hope the names do not change - but who knows it may not get regulatory approval - even if it does actually happen. We will have to wait and see. BTW update will be on Saturday. |
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Sky One was called Sky Channel before that (and it started on Astra 19.2 East as "Sky Channel" then rebranded to Sky 1. However, I thought it started with another name when it was on 13 East on 11.658 V (that was it's original frequency I think).
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Forthcoming EPG Changes
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12th - Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD rebrands temporarily as Sky Cinema Star Wars SD/HD (311/339) 12th - Sky Sports 3 SD and HD rebrand temporarily as Sky Sports Darts SD/HD (403/456) 26th - Christmas Food (133/255), Christmas Food +1 (243) and Christmas Food HD (255/133) revert to Good Food, Good Food +1, Good Food HD 26th - MTV Xmas reverts to MTV Classic (356) 27th - Heart Xmas reverts to Heart TV (386) 27th - Heart Extra Xmas reverts to Heart Extra (0112) On or after 26th - Christmas Gold and Christmas Gold +1 revert to Gold and Gold +1 (110, 166) On or after 26th - Chilled Xmas reverts to Chilled TV (370) On or after 26th - Now Xmas reverts to Now Music (378) January 2017 1st - Sky Cinema Christmas SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD (303/330) 3rd - Sky Cinema Star Wars SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD (311/339) 3rd - BBC Radio Cymru Mwy closes (0152 in Wales) 4th - Sky Cinema Box Office channels close (700-715, 743-744, 752) 4th - Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD revert to 310/337 and Sky Cinema Hits SD/HD revert to 303/330 5th - Sky Sports Darts SD and HD revert to Sky Sports 3 SD/HD (403/436) 5th - True Christmas and True Christmas +1 revert to True Movies and True Movies +1 (321, 322) By 6th - QVC Xmas reverts to QVC Extra (673) 7th - Christmas 24 and Christmas 24+ revert to Movies 24, Movies 24 + (327, 328) 9th - Made in Liverpool (117 in Liverpool area ) 9th - Made in Birmingham (117 in Birmingham area) 9th - UTV Ireland and UTV Ireland HD rebranded to 'be 3' and 'be 3 HD' (116/267) A Plus (859 - tbc) March 2017 1st - Motors TV HD (447) 2nd - STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh rebrand as STV2 Glasgow and STV2 Edinburgh (117/168 in Glasgow and Edinburgh areas) 2nd - STV2 Aberdeen (117 in Aberdeen area) 2nd - STV2 Ayr (117 in Ayr area) 2nd - STV2 Dundee (117 In Dundee area) No confirmed timescale Made in Teeside (117 in Middlesbrough area) BBC Four HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD launch on EPG in Ireland ITV Box Office Arise News may be restored to EPG (519) Remaining ITV regions in HD (UK) BBC One HD English regions (UK) BBC Two HD nations (UK) |
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December 2016
12th - Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD rebrands temporarily as Sky Cinema Star Wars SD/HD (311/339) 12th - Sky Sports 3 SD and HD rebrand temporarily as Sky Sports Darts SD/HD (403/456) 26th - Christmas Food (133/255), Christmas Food +1 (243) and Christmas Food HD (255/133) revert to Good Food, Good Food +1, Good Food HD 26th - MTV Xmas reverts to MTV Classic (356) 27th - Heart Xmas reverts to Heart TV (386) 27th - Heart Extra Xmas reverts to Heart Extra (0112) On or after 26th - Christmas Gold and Christmas Gold +1 revert to Gold and Gold +1 (110, 166) On or after 26th - Chilled Xmas reverts to Chilled TV (370) On or after 26th - Now Xmas reverts to Now Music (378) January 2017 1st - Sky Cinema Christmas SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD (303/330) 3rd - Sky Cinema Star Wars SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD (311/339) 3rd - BBC Radio Cymru Mwy closes (0152 in Wales) 4th - Sky Cinema Box Office channels close (700-715, 743-744, 752) 4th - Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD revert to 310/337 and Sky Cinema Hits SD/HD revert to 303/330 5th - Sky Sports Darts SD and HD revert to Sky Sports 3 SD/HD (403/436) 5th - True Christmas and True Christmas +1 revert to True Movies and True Movies +1 (321, 322) By 6th - QVC Xmas reverts to QVC Extra (673) 7th - Christmas 24 and Christmas 24+ revert to Movies 24, Movies 24 + (327, 328) 9th - Made in Liverpool (117 in Liverpool area ) 9th - Made in Birmingham (117 in Birmingham area) 9th - UTV Ireland and UTV Ireland HD rebranded to 'be 3' and 'be 3 HD' (116/267) A Plus (859 - tbc) March 2017 1st - Motors TV HD (447) 2nd - STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh rebrand as STV2 Glasgow and STV2 Edinburgh (117/168 in Glasgow and Edinburgh areas) 2nd - STV2 Aberdeen (117 in Aberdeen area) 2nd - STV2 Ayr (117 in Ayr area) 2nd - STV2 Dundee (117 In Dundee area) No confirmed timescale BBC Four HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD launch on EPG in Ireland ITV Box Office Arise News may be restored to EPG (519) Remaining ITV regions in HD (UK) BBC One HD English regions (UK) BBC Two HD nations (UK)
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You may be right. It would be very confusing from a marketing point of view - and Sky is a well known name so why change it. Of course it would confuse "Fox" with "Fox" - ie you would not know whch one was which with the Fox UK channel etc etc.
Let's hope the names do not change - but who knows it may not get regulatory approval - even if it does actually happen. We will have to wait and see. BTW update will be on Saturday. |
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Maybe some channels will get rebranded, such as Real Lives to Fox Life, turning Sky 2 in to Fox Crime may be good if they can get enough crime related material and shows, maybe launch a few other channels like Fox Animation and Fox Comedy, and maybe turn Sky Sports Mix in to Fox Sports
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Question is, will it get regulatory approval? (LOL Of course it will, its a Tory Gov, who am i kidding....)
Sadly I can't see anything similar happening this time!
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I think it was simply called "Satellite TV".
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A rebrand of a couple of channels might take place to promote the Fox brand but new channel launches like Cartoons, Crime, and Comedy might be hard to launch as the UK market is full of those type of channels with the likes of Comedy Central which has most of the top quality content. Then you have True Crime and True drama along with the Cartoon channels from Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and others. So it's hard to guess what changes would be made if any.
![]() Like wise with Crime - lots of things never shown in the UK any more like Hart to Hart, Charlies Angels, Scarecrow & Mrs King |
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Comedy wise there is a lot of comedy no longer shown in the UK from the 80s & 90s - at the moment Comedy Central seems to show endless Friends and Two & A Half Men
Like wise with Crime - lots of things never shown in the UK any more like Hart to Hart, Charlies Angels, Scarecrow & Mrs King |
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The Sky brand is so well known in the UK I think it's very unlikely they will change it to Fox.
It will be a long while before anything happens as the takeover will have to go through all the regulatory hurdles, and we don't even know if Sky shareholders will agree to it yet. |
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The Sky brand is so well known in the UK I think it's very unlikely they will change it to Fox.
It will be a long while before anything happens as the takeover will have to go through all the regulatory hurdles, and we don't even know if Sky shareholders will agree to it yet. |
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I think it was simply called "Satellite TV".
Sky channel was one of the first Pan European channels, its funny we don't have any of those any more! |
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It was Sky Channel on 13E, it started out as Satellite TV back in 1982 !
Sky channel was one of the first Pan European channels, its funny we don't have any of those any more! |
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We kind of do - Euronews is a pan European channel
BTW "Satellite TV" in 1982 - was that not also on 13 East? Or was it on 27.5 West? |
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