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Old 30-12-2016, 11:36
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22613 11.538 V 22.20 5/6 DVB-S QPSK now carrying program info for what looks like a foreign channel. Still showing color bars and tone.
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:44
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22613 11.538 V 22.20 5/6 DVB-S QPSK now carrying program info for what looks like a foreign channel. Still showing color bars and tone.
That one will be A Plus Europe
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:09
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Tru TV +1 has been removed from EPG 271 - a temporary suspension because it's been off air for 60 days according to the Sky Helpforum.

There are some minor updates to the list I posted earlier in the week e.g. it doesn't look like DM Plus is going to be removed as it's still on air, contrary to an article on BizAsia. Also, there's another rebrand from Sunday for Sky Cinema Greats.

Here's the updated list. Sorry to repost the whole thing but it's probably easier for Jimbo than setting out what all the changes are.

COMING SOON

---December 2016---
31st - CCTV News rebrands as CGTN - China Global Television Network (510)

---January 2017---
1st - Sky Cinema Greats SD and HD renamed temporarily as Sky Cinema Superheroes SD/HD (304, 331)
2nd - Sky Cinema Christmas SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD (303, 330)
2nd - Sky Cinema Star Wars SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD (311, 339)
3rd - BBC Radio Cymru Mwy closes (Wales 0152)
4th - Sky Cinema Box Office channels close (700-715, 743-744, 752)
4th - Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD and Sky Cinema Hits SD/HD swap EPG positions
5th - Discovery Shed moves from 242 to 161 , Home & Health moves from 240 to 162 and Home & Health + 1 moves from 241 to 240 (all in Great Britain only)
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 - Christmas Gold and Christmas Gold +1 revert to Gold and Gold +1 (110, 166)
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 in Liverpool area (117)
9th - Made in Birmingham in Birmingham area (117)
9th - UTV Ireland and UTV Ireland HD rebrand to 'be 3' and 'be 3 HD' (Ireland 116, 267)
23rd - A Plus
Sky Cinema Pixar SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Disney SD/HD (305, 332)
Sky Cinema Superheroes SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Greats SD/HD (304, 331)
Colors HD (786)
Now 80s reverts to Now Music (378)

---February 2017---
ITV Box Office and ITV Box Office HD

---March 2017---
1st - Motors TV rebrands as Motorsport.tv (447)
1st - Motorsport.tv HD (447)
2nd - STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh rebrand as STV2 Glasgow and STV2 Edinburgh (117/168 in Glasgow and Edinburgh)
2nd - STV2 Aberdeen (Aberdeen 117)
2nd - STV2 Ayr (Ayr 117)
2nd - STV2 Dundee (Dundee 117)

---Expected in 2017---
Irish TV closes (191)
Made In Teesside (Middlesbrough 117)
Spike +1 licensed for satellite by Ofcom (UK)
BBC Four HD, CBBC HD and CBeebies HD launch on EPG (Ireland)

---No timescale---
Pop HD, Tiny Pop HD & Kix HD
BBC One HD English regions ( UK)
BBC Two HD nations (UK)
Further ITV regions in HD (UK)
Channel 4 advertising regions may launch in HD, prompting move to 104 in UK (117 in Wales)
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:42
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Tru TV +1 has been removed from EPG 271 - a temporary suspension because it's been off air for 60 days according to the Sky Helpforum.

There are some minor updates to the list I posted earlier in the week e.g. it doesn't look like DM Plus is going to be removed as it's still on air, contrary to an article on BizAsia. Also, there's another rebrand from Sunday for Sky Cinema Greats.

Here's the updated list. Sorry to repost the whole thing but it's probably easier for Jimbo than setting out what all the changes are.

COMING SOON

---December 2016---
31st - CCTV News rebrands as CGTN - China Global Television Network (510)

---January 2017---
1st - Sky Cinema Greats SD and HD renamed temporarily as Sky Cinema Superheroes SD/HD (304, 331)
2nd - Sky Cinema Christmas SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD (303, 330)
2nd - Sky Cinema Star Wars SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD (311, 339)
3rd - BBC Radio Cymru Mwy closes (Wales 0152)
4th - Sky Cinema Box Office channels close (700-715, 743-744, 752)
4th - Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD and Sky Cinema Hits SD/HD swap EPG positions
5th - Discovery Shed moves from 242 to 161 , Home & Health moves from 240 to 162 and Home & Health + 1 moves from 241 to 240 (all in Great Britain only)
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 - Christmas Gold and Christmas Gold +1 revert to Gold and Gold +1 (110, 166)
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 in Liverpool area (117)
9th - Made in Birmingham in Birmingham area (117)
9th - UTV Ireland and UTV Ireland HD rebrand to 'be 3' and 'be 3 HD' (Ireland 116, 267)
23rd - A Plus
Sky Cinema Pixar SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Disney SD/HD (305, 332)
Sky Cinema Superheroes SD and HD revert to Sky Cinema Greats SD/HD (304, 331)
Colors HD (786)
Now 80s reverts to Now Music (378)

---February 2017---
ITV Box Office and ITV Box Office HD

---March 2017---
1st - Motors TV rebrands as Motorsport.tv (447)
1st - Motorsport.tv HD (447)
2nd - STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh rebrand as STV2 Glasgow and STV2 Edinburgh (117/168 in Glasgow and Edinburgh)
2nd - STV2 Aberdeen (Aberdeen 117)
2nd - STV2 Ayr (Ayr 117)
2nd - STV2 Dundee (Dundee 117)

---Expected in 2017---
Irish TV closes (191)
Made In Teesside (Middlesbrough 117)
Spike +1 licensed for satellite by Ofcom (UK)
BBC Four HD, CBBC HD and CBeebies HD launch on EPG (Ireland)

---No timescale---
Pop HD, Tiny Pop HD & Kix HD
BBC One HD English regions ( UK)
BBC Two HD nations (UK)
Further ITV regions in HD (UK)
Channel 4 advertising regions may launch in HD, prompting move to 104 in UK (117 in Wales)
Thank you. I shll update the thread later.
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Old 30-12-2016, 21:15
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Tru TV +1 has been removed from EPG 271 - a temporary suspension because it's been off air for 60 days according to the Sky Helpforum.
Update

'tru TV+1' has now been removed from Sky EPG 271.

Currently still broadcasting off the EPG on 11.426 V, 27.500, 5/6, DVB-S, QPSK.
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Old 30-12-2016, 22:04
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That one will be A Plus Europe
Thanks for clarifying. That for me jimbo.
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Old 30-12-2016, 22:09
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Update

'tru TV+1' has now been removed from Sky EPG 271.

Currently still broadcasting off the EPG on 11.426 V, 27.500, 5/6, DVB-S, QPSK.
I may be corrected on this but I think I read an article on a516.digital a couple of weeks ago stating that Tru tv might be leaving the UK tv market due to very low ratings.
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Old 31-12-2016, 10:05
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I may be corrected on this but I think I read an article on a516.digital a couple of weeks ago stating that Tru tv might be leaving the UK tv market due to very low ratings.
Yes there are to many many other channels like TruTV. Turner launched TruTV internationally in Latin America and the UK. In some other markets, including the Middle East, they decided to launch HLN instead. Maybe they should have done that in the UK too.
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Old 31-12-2016, 16:51
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Happy New Year to all on Digital Spy.
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Old 31-12-2016, 19:50
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Indeed, especially to Jimbo, Digi Man, Disco, and all the others who keep these information threads up to date week after week all year round!
Cheers, Dave.
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Old 31-12-2016, 21:11
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Indeed, especially to Jimbo, Digi Man, Disco, and all the others who keep these information threads up to date week after week all year round!
Cheers, Dave.
Thanks Dave, 'Happy New Year' to you and everyone else on DS, especially to all involved with this thread.
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Old 31-12-2016, 21:13
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Happy New Year to all on Digital Spy.
Thanks
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Old 01-01-2017, 00:20
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Happy New Year folks!
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Old 01-01-2017, 16:48
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Old 01-01-2017, 20:55
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Happy New Year everyone
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Old 01-01-2017, 21:05
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Old 01-01-2017, 21:57
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Happy New Year folks!
Happy New Year everyone
Happy New Year everyone.
Thanks and may we all have a better 2017 - double
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:39
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Sky's New Channel Changes Blog can be found here

This year there is no Platform Freeze according to this

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Entertai...s/td-p/2407614
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Old 02-01-2017, 21:26
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Sky's New Channel Changes Blog can be found here

This year there is no Platform Freeze according to this

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Entertai...s/td-p/2407614
There are NO launches, there is some channel moves on the the 5th January, changes between 24th Dec & 5th Jan are just channel name changes not launches/moves, so the launch queue was still closed. There is a difference, I thought you would know this being a journalist?
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Old 03-01-2017, 00:39
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I can't remember if I mentioned it recently (blame the Christmas beer) but ARISE news is now at "technical fault" on their channel. They lost EPG listings a several weeks prior.

I genuinely feel we may be rid for good this time.
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Old 03-01-2017, 07:29
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Updates

31st December - CCTV News rebranded as CGTN - China Global Television Network (510) but has yet to be relabelled

1st - Sky Cinema Greats SD and HD renamed temporarily as Sky Cinema Superheroes SD/HD (304, 331)

Reversion took place yesterday
Sky Cinema Christmas SD and HD back to Sky Cinema Drama & Romance SD/HD (303, 330)

Reversions took place today
Christmas Gold and Christmas Gold +1 back to Gold and Gold +1 (110, 166). For Gold this was a UK only change - this never relabelled in Ireland
Sky Cinema Star Wars SD and HD back to Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror SD/HD (311, 339)
Sky Cinema Pixar SD and HD back to Sky Cinema Disney SD/HD (305, 332)

Reversion expected tomorrow
QVC Christmas back to QVC Extra (673)



Happy new year to all contributors to this thread
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Old 03-01-2017, 11:14
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Happy New Year to everyone

Thanks for the kind words.

This thread will continue until Friday when we will recommence with week #2.

All the best
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Old 03-01-2017, 11:53
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I can't remember if I mentioned it recently (blame the Christmas beer) but ARISE news is now at "technical fault" on their channel. They lost EPG listings a several weeks prior.

I genuinely feel we may be rid for good this time.
Is the Freeview stream still going? (Can't check as my tv won't display it and just sits on the 'loading stream' page).
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:30
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Is the Freeview stream still going? (Can't check as my tv won't display it and just sits on the 'loading stream' page).
No idea mate - all of our TV's are DSAT only... not a Freeview aerial in sight
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:31
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I had a look at the arise news website last night. They had a stream that was going but absolutely nothing on their website other than that
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