Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2008

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There is an unidentified Arabic channel testing on 11223V 27500 2/3 tagged as 53118 (although the epg now and next info doesnt tie in with Arabic channels....)

 

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From Biz Asia:

Asian Christian radio station launches on Sky

A new Asian Christian radio station has gone live on Sky Digital this week.

The station known as Radio Khushkhabri will takeover the slot previously occupied by Asian Gold on Sky channel 0151. Radio Khushkhabri will officially begin broadcasting from its new Hayes studios from Saturday 1st March.

full story

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2008/02/asian_christian.php

 

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Sikh TV launch scrapped - the new channel will be Punjab World TV instead. PWTV launch is still March 10th.

 

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X-league TV (epg 208) will rebrand to Pulse on Monday

 

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Mez TV launched onto 831 yesterday.


And some epg tweaks this morning:

Vector 24/7 & Shop Vector+ have been relabelled . The EPG now reads:

652 JML Choice

656 JML Innovation

 

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Virgin Media has carried out an epg shuffle to give Virgin 1 greater prominence on the epg.

121 Virgin 1
122 Virgin 1 +1
123 Bravo
124 Bravo +1
125 Challenge

153 Challenge +1
154 Bravo2

the old line up for comparison:

121 Bravo
122 Bravo +1
123 Bravo 2
124 Challenge
153 Virgin 1
154 Virgin 1 +1

 

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The Hits will be renamed 4Music before the end of the year

 

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Smart Shop TV has been removed from 680 in the EPG. They appear to be having technical problems

 

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A week later than expected Xleague.tv has renamed to Pulse on channel 208.

 

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2 launches this week:

Movies4men +1 has launched onto epg 326

Radio channel Hot has launched onto 0212

 

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What appears to be Punjabi World TV is epg testing on 12480V 27500 2/3 tagged as "12081"

Edit - Frequency corrected

 

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Glory TV is epg testing on 11426V 27500 2/3 tagged as "52555"

 

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What appears to be Punjabi World TV is epg testing on 12441V 27500 2/3 tagged as "12081"

Just checked 12081 is not there.

 

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What appears to be Punjabi World TV is epg testing on 12441V 27500 2/3 tagged as "12081"

Just checked 12081 is not there.

I assure you it is - although its coming up with no signal at times on Sky digiboxes. Im using a decent receiver

 

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What appears to be NDTV Imagine is epg testing on 11342V 27500 2/3 tagged as 52161.

 

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Updates on some HD channels:

Sky Sports HD 3 is expected to launch mid March

FX HD & Sky Movies Premiere HD are reported to be launching within the next few months.

 

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BET has launched onto epg 209

 

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EPG 806 has finally been renamed:

ARY The Musik --> ARY Oneworld

 

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What appears to be NDTV Imagine is epg testing on 11342V 27500 2/3 tagged as 52161.

NDTV Imagine is now on full trade tests - currently carrying a promo loop.

 

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There are rumours circulating that radio channel BigL is in financial trouble and may be either closing or pulled off the sky platform (0190)