Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2008

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Looks like Pulse +1 will be closing tonight - the epg details change to a Nigerian service tomorrow. This isnt completely unsurprising as the Pulse +1 Ofcom licence transferred to HiTV Nigeria a month or so back.

 

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Local business men in the Scottish Borders are considering setting up a regional tv channel to replace Border ITV

_http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2466670.0.borderers_plan_to_set_up_their_own_tv_station.php

 

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Nigerian channel HiTV has launched onto epg 204. Its replaced Pulse +1

 

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BET +1 launches by Monday 8th December

 

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DBN has moved epg 837 - 595.

Yet another Sky Box Office channel has launched - onto 761

 

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Discovery are launching another channel on January 20th 2009 - the new channel will be Investigation Discovery

 

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Channel 5 are looking at launching a childrens channel next year. For the time being I'll call it Milkshake as this was the name of the successful childrens programming slot on C5.

 

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The Global Radio group moved their radio channels around yesterday:

0111 Heart
0112 Galaxy
0113 XFM
0124 LBC
0177 Chill

 

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The new name for UKTV History has been released. It will be rebranded as Yesterday early in the New Year.

 

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Bangla TV was removed from 786 this afternoon. Its still currently transmitting off the epg on 11343H

 

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^^

Bangla TV reappeared today.

 

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What appears to be ITV4 +1 is testing on 10832H 22000 5/6 tagged as ITVi Stream 2

Its currently flagged as a data stream so isnt available to Sky boxes or Freesat boxes. Its also not available to dreamboxes unless you tweak the settings from data to TV using dreamboxedit

 

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What appears to be ITV4 +1 is testing on 10832H 22000 5/6 tagged as ITVi Stream 2

Its currently flagged as a data stream so isnt available to Sky boxes or Freesat boxes. Its also not available to dreamboxes unless you tweak the settings from data to TV using dreamboxedit

Interesting. That transmission has been around for a long time. Looks like it is just the content that has changed. If it is to be ITV 4+1 then it is good news for us here in the Canaries. We will have access to a version of all ITV's except ITV3.

 

[Analoguesat]

Confirmed as ITV4 +1 - its now got the correct dog on it.

 

[Zorba]

Confirmed as ITV4 +1 - its now got the correct dog on it.

Yay,champions league,but one hour later

 

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According to FM Strathclyde over on the DS forum, the channel launches that were in the in the epg queue when the list was closed in October 2007 are coming to an end. According to his info the last ones are scheduled for mid January. After that the only new channels will be through takeover / buyouts of existing slots.

 

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G2 Family has started full trade testing on 12607H 27500 2/3 tagged as 55244

 

[Gitfinger]

Tag 6335 has been renamed to Five, ready for the launch on Freesat.

No Now & Next info yet, as at 15:56 GMT.

 

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Scuzz +1 launched onto epg 375 this morning.

 

[Zorba]

What appears to be ITV4 +1 is testing on 10832H 22000 5/6 tagged as ITVi Stream 2

Has it gone? I can't find it today.