Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2010

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LA Babes have sold their epg slot and its been taken over by a relaunch of Cream

 

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Showcase (the relaunch for Info TV 2) is epg testing on 11661H 27500 2/3 tagged as 51033. Full launch is expected on February 8th

 

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Showcase (basically a reincarnation of Info TV 2) launched onto epg 216 on February 8th

 

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SportsXXXWives closed off epg 937 on February 8th

 

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HiTV was removed from epg 204 on February 9th

 

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HiTV was removed from epg 204 on February 9th

And returned the following day!

 

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Fashion TV (epg 261) has been carrying a banner saying they will be launching in HD.

 

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Jackpot Games was renamed to Casino TV on epg 860 on January 15th

 

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Sky Box Office was relaunched onto epg's 740 and 741 in the EPG.

 

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VH1 Classic may be renaming to MTV Classic on March 1st

 

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Numerical label 4720 on 12.285 V was renamed Sky News +1 today. As I find it impossible to believe Sky will launch a +1 news channel its likley to be for Sky News HD

 

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Just mentioned as an oddity but two new labels have appeared on 28E - 11426H 27500 2/3.

RBS & NW. They are both scrambled in the ultra secure PowerVu so are almost certainly Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest internal transmissions. At least RBS used to be on Eutelsat W2 at 16E and may have been affected by the W2 failure a few weeks back.

Theres no chance of watching them but if you run across these labels this is the reason you cant decode them

 

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SciFi will be rebranded as the idiotic SyFy on April 13th

 

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Rockworld TV on epg 378 becomes Lava at 6am on Monday 1st March.

 

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VH1 Classic becomes MTV Classic from March 1st.

 

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Rabbit Chat was been removed from epg 879 this morning. They have gone back to being on Freeview only.

 

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Forthcoming changes to the Sky Movies channels - from March 26th:


Sky Movies Screen 1/HD1 will become Sky Movies Showcase/HD
Sky Movies Screen 2/HD2 will become Sky Movies Crime & Thriller
Sky Movies Drama will become Sky Movies Drama & Romance
Sky Movies Action/Thriller will becomes Sky Movies Action & Adventure

From March 26th, EPG numbers will be as follows:

301 – Premiere
302 – Premiere +1
303 – Showcase
304 – Comedy
305 - Action & Adventure
306 – Family
307 – Crime & Thriller
308 – Drama & Romance
309 – Sci-Fi/Horror
310 – Modern Greats
311 – Classics
312 – Indie

HD channels line-up from 26th March

313 – Premiere HD
314 – Showcase HD
332 – Comedy HD
333 – Action & Adventure HD
335 – Crime & Thriller HD
334 – Sky Movies Family HD
336 – Drama & Romance HD
337 – Sci-Fi/Horror HD
338 – Modern Greats HD
339 – Indie HD

 

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Radio channel Amrit Bani was removed from epg 0176 this morning

Edit - and returned the following day

 

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A report in The Times newspaper says BBC radio channels 6 Music and Asian Network will be axed. However the BBC Trust has to ratify this decision before it can go ahead.

If the axe falls BBC 7 will be rebranded Radio 4 Extra

 

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NDTV Imagine will be rebranded Imagine TV probably in March: