Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2005

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Looks like we may be having a fourth service cease at the end of the week. God 2 epg has "no longer available" after midnight Saturday.

More4 will occupy epg 165 according to the tests loop on dtt.

 

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Gospel Channel has launched on 681

 

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Quiz Call now full testing on 12031H 27500 2/3 tagged as "7240"

 

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Sky 3 launch date correction 5pm on October 31st.

(Looks suspiciously like a spoiler for the ITV 4 launch the following day to me!)

 

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Rapture are now reporting their (third) launch on November 14th

 

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If you havent seen it, theres a month by month list of the launch dates Ive seen reported here:

http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?p=235848

 

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Milton Keynes TV is planning to launch autumn 2006

 

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640 will see a rebrand on 1st October. Downtown Superstore will be replacing Superstore TV. The new service will transmit from glass walled studios in the Downtown shopping development in Grantham

http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/09/the_uks_first_i.php

 

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Quiz Call has launched onto epg 284

 

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The Baby Channel is testing on 11307V tagged as "53310"

 

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More4 now testing with video & audio. 10.729 V SR 22.000 FEC 5/6 tagged as "8340".

The test 3310 on the same frequency is carrying colour bars and is for More4 +1

 

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Sony Max is to encrypt as a stand alone channel on October 17th.

 

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Vectone Tamil has encrypted this evening

 

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Express Shopping has closed down and been replaced on 636 by Pitch TV

 

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ITV Brats Channel will launch 11th February 2006 in the ITV 4 downtime.

 

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Vectone have soft-launched another channel. Vectone Sinhalese has appeared on the Vectone Mall channel (epg 696) (Sinhalese is the second Sri Lankan language, and a new epg number up in the 800's will be allocated soon). Vectone Mall should reappear next year sometime

 

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Sky News is to get a new look on October 24th:


http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/10/sky_news_new_lo_2.php

 

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It has been confirmed that More4 +1 will launch onto epg 286 on 17th October - 1 week after More 4 launches.. This will be a temporary allocation, and it will join its sister station once the epg reshuffle happens at the end of the year.

 

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Showcase Television is testing on 11954H 27500 3/4 tagged as "53200".

It is using the same logo as the Magazine Showcase channel that ceased a couple of years ago, although I believe this incarnation is more likely to be part of the Life TV network.

 

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Todays epg changes:

More 4 launched onto 165
Baby Channel launched onto 285
Classics TV renamed Dove Vision although its been running as this for several weeks with the old name.
Life-Showcase launched onto 162
Nation217 renamed Quiz Nation