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October 18th changes:

130 - Hallmark renamed Universal
150 - Hallmark +1 renamed Universal +1
220 - Hallmark HD renamed Universal HD

633 - Disney XD HD launched
666 JML Active renamed Rocks & Co 1

 

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The owning company of Luxe TV went bust mid October leading to changes in naming after the channels changed owners.

271 -Luxe TV was relabelled as Luxury Life

273 - Luxe TV HD was relabelled as Luxury Life HD

 

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UCTV was now been added back to epg 843 on October 22nd.

 

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Horse & Country TV was added back to epg 280 on October 22nd.

 

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Bilberry TV was replaced by QVC Beauty on epg 658 on October 25th

 

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There will be a mini reshuffle of the Sky branded entertainment channels in the new year. So far we know that Sky Living and Sky Atlantic will move up to the top of the epg guide:

106 - Sky One
107 - Sky Living
108 - Sky Atlantic

 

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At the end of October it was announced that Sony are interested in setting up their own entertainment channel. According to sources they are interested in buying epg 157 from Film 24.

 

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SportxxxGirls moved epg numbers from 945 to 889 on November 1st. They moved back again on November 16th!!

Also Controversial TV returned to epg 200

 

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Renames for the Climax branded channels on November 1st:

915 - Climax3 - 1 was renamed Climax
916 - Climax3 - 2 was renamed Extreme
961 - Climax3 - 3 was renamed GirlGirl

 

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BBC 1HD launched onto epg 169 on November 3rd

 

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Changes to the Discovery services on November 8th:

522 - Discovery Knowledge was relaunched as Discovery History

557 - Discovery Knowledge +1 was relaunched as Discovery History +1


Also:

The old Max TV label was renamed Olive TV which launched onto epg 597

 

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November 10th changes:

802 - DM Digital was removed
803 - Hidayat TV was removed
807 - Disha was removed

802/3 returned within a couple of days

 

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November 15th:


226 - ITV 3HD launched
227 - ITV 4HD launched

0112 - Galaxy removed
0112 - LBC 97.3 moved from 0124
0124 - LBC News new radio channel

 

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November 19th

Interestingly its been confirmed today that Sony have bought the Film 24 epg 157 slot and will launch their own channel in early 2011

 

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There will be a mini reshuffle of the Sky branded entertainment channels in the new year. So far we know that Sky Living and Sky Atlantic will move up to the top of the epg guide:

106 - Sky One
107 - Sky Living
108 - Sky Atlantic

Is that just a rename of sky 2(107) and sky 3(108) ?

 

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We know Sky Atlantic is a new channel, but Sky Living is just a rename for the Living channel Sky bought from Virgin Media recently.

Your guess is as good as mine as to whats happening with Sky 2 & 3

 

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Sunrise TV are expected to launch more channels in 2011

 

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November 19th changes:

912 - TMTN1 removed
959 -TMTN2 removed

Both channels had their transmission licences revoked by Ofcon for serious breaches

November 23rd updates:

216 - Showcase +1 removed
385 - WTF added
595 - DBN removed for licence irregularities

 

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November 29th changes:

342 - Shorts TV removed
327 - Movies 24 was temporarily renamed Christmas 24
328 - Movies 24+ was temporarily renamed Christmas 24 X

 

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December 1st updates:

911 - 40 n Naughty renamed RedLightZone1
948 - ChatGirl TV2 renamed RedLightZone2


December 2nd update:

950 - LiveXXXBabes removed


December 3rd update:
739 - SBO temporarily closed for a week or so to allow SBO HD3 to launch for a boxing event