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This is going to run in parallel to the latest Sky news lists - this one will be an read only (closed) thread, and will only contain the latest list of planned channels. Once a channel launches it will be removed. Any dates listed are provisional dates.
This list is offered in good faith - it includes those channels that I believe have reasonably advanced plans to launch in the UK. It has been compiled from various sources, and includes new services licenced by Ofcom that are likely to be for the UK market.
Please note - any channel can cancel its launch plans at any time if the market for their services isnt right, and it is certain some of these channels wont get off the ground.
Trade test frequencies of any channel labelled testing can be found in the news thread if you are interested. Tests with video and audio are flagged as such, otherwise, initial tests are normally either a blank screen or a testcard with epg info running.
TV services
June:
21st: ESPN America HD 431.
28th: Hallmark Channel HD.
30th: Music Choice music channels to close on Sky.
July:
Five HD. (Channel TBC a place holder?)
Autumn:
BBC One HD.
Sometime in 2010:
Sky Sports News HD.
STV HD (unconfirmed date but testing).
2011:
TLC (from Discovery) (Spring).
Racing UK HD.
Sky to take control of Virgin Medias portfolio of channels: Living, Bravo, Challenge, Virgin 1 (to be rebranded).
Unconfirmed date:
Sky VOD service.
Playhouse Disney to rebrand to Disney Junior.
Film4 HD (Summer 2010 confirmed to be on Virgin Media).
Living TV HD.
Bravo HD.
Travel Channel HD.
Food Network HD.
Good Food HD.
Club:Scene TV (live concerts a music channel?)
Fashion TV HD.
Eurosport 2 HD.
The Property Channel (full channel later this year)
Milkshake? (From Five).
Diva TV rebranded with Universal name
Hallmark rebranded with Universal name.
Disney Channel HD (According to upcoming channels page).
Nickelodeon HD (Some programmes on MTVN HD).
ITV1+1.
no start dates at all currently known
General entertainment
pull Video On Demand on Sky HD boxes 2010
Living HD
Animal Planet HD
C5 Childrens Channel (possibly called Milkshake)
Good Food HD
Bravo HD
Challenge HD
Film4 HD
Planet Green (from Discovery)
Scottish Gold joint venture between BBC Scotland and STV
Movies4Women
Movies4Women 2
Zone Club
Asian / African
-
News
NewsX Hindi language news service
Sports
Eurosport News
Games / Interactive / Gambling
-
Kids
Kidsco early 2010
S4C Kids provisional name - welsh language childrens channel
Zone Superheroes
Adult
-
Shopping
-
Local / Regional TV
Scotborders TV - my unofficial name for a local service for the Scottish Borders & Dumfries and Galloway
Religious
-
Specialist
Home & Garden Channel Yank lifestyle channel
Fine Living Network Yank lifestylechannel
Veria TV wellness / lifestyle programmes
Music
Great American Country Music
Venus Hits
Unlikely to launch
These channels were on the main list but nothing has been heard of them for many months, so they have been relegated to this list. If any definite news appears they will move back onto the main list. In the meantime its now very unlikely these will ever appear
General entertainment
RTE International planned for 2008/9 but RTE have severe financial problems
Event TV
NGO TV
Animax Sony anime channel
Planet Matters
The Queer Channel (for gays)
RNTV
Channel 4 Shortcuts
HBO UK
13th Street
Retro Cinema
Gaelic Channel (Name provisional. Partnership between ITV Scottish, & ITV Grampian)
SciTech
Gong (anime)
AT (from Harmony TV - who havent got their FIRST channel on air yet let alone their second......)
The Drama Channel (from Chart Show TV)
4US(my unofficial name for forthcoming Channel 4 service to showcase their American series)
Focus TV (new Zimbabwean based service serving South African expats)
Pride TV (LBGT)
Portugal Channel (lifestyle & tourism)
MPL
Luxury Channel
Hallmark 2
Travel & Cruise
Mystery Channel
Destinations TV
GXT
Asian / African
NDTV Life travel & lifestyle
Asian Glamour
MATV Sukrit (Indian religious)
Zee Tegulu
Zee Kannada
Apnah Vision
NDTV Nation
Rotana Europe (full launch)
Sahara Samay (news)
AMC Banglavision
CNNIBN
UNN News Asian news
Bridges TV (Muslim lifestyle channel)
Vox Africa TV
South African TV Ltd
Channel East (relaunch)
Mashriq TV
Hum TV (Pakistan)
Indus TV (Urdu)
Indus Music (Urdu)
News
Channel 7 (Indian news service)
ITN News
Sports
NFL Network
At The Races 2
Football Mad TV
ITV Sport
Games / Interactive / Gambling
Poker Channel +1
Casino News Network
Kids
Jetix boys channel (name currently unknown - may be GTX), aimed at boys aged 13-19)
Adult
Playboy 2
Cultoons (adult cartoons)
Play Girl TV
Animatrix
Touch TV
Shopping
The Shopping Channel
ITV Shop
mature content Network
Cut Price TV
Local / Regional TV
Scotland on TV
See TV (from Life TV - full launch on their own epg number)
This Is Yorkshire
Religious
Direction TV
Islam Channel Urdu
Islam 4U
Ark TV
Specialist
Start Your Business TV
World Fashion Channel
Parent TV
Music
NR1
C Music TV (launched onto 9E)
Konta MTV
U-Rock
Check 1:2
Channels removed from the epg in 2009 with no obvious replacement service taking over
1 Sports Xchange (456)
2 Overseas Property (274)
3 The Business Channel (547)
4 Raaj Radio (0141)
5 Nuts TV (196)
6 Nuts TV +1 (210)
7 Wine TV (264)
8 Radio Tatras International (0195)
9 Bubble Hits (379)
10 Travel Channel 2 (253)
11 G2 Family (340)
12 Arsenal TV Replay (448)
13 Real Estate TV (262)
14 Real Estate TV +1 (263)
15 Asian Star Radio (0213)
16 AHTV (454)
17 Zee Gurjurati (811)
18 Club Asia (0145)
19 Casino TV (870)
20 JJB Sports (674)
21 The Hits (0170)
22 Smash Hits(0172)
23 Heat (0179)
24 Q (0181)
25 Kerrang (0183)
26 Zee radio (0215)
27 Bedroom TV (962)
28 Arrow Rock (0161)
29 Setanta Sports News (418)
30 Setanta 1 (423)
31 Setanta 2 (424)
32 Setanta Golf (429)
33 Celtic TV (436)
34 Rangers TV (438)
35 Setanta Commercial (437?)
36 Tron Direct 2 (684)
37 Monte Carlo TV (863)
38 AIT Moviestar (330)
39 Audi Channel (884)
40 Deutsche Welle TV (794)
41 Arsenal TV (435)
42 Racing World (443)
43 Life TV 186
44 World Movies (331)
45 Cupid TV (879)
46 TVE Intenational (795)
47 HBW TV (963)
48 SA Direct (270)
49 Punjjabi TV (838)
50 Hot Digital (0212)
This list is offered in good faith - it includes those channels that I believe have reasonably advanced plans to launch in the UK. It has been compiled from various sources, and includes new services licenced by Ofcom that are likely to be for the UK market.
Please note - any channel can cancel its launch plans at any time if the market for their services isnt right, and it is certain some of these channels wont get off the ground.
Trade test frequencies of any channel labelled testing can be found in the news thread if you are interested. Tests with video and audio are flagged as such, otherwise, initial tests are normally either a blank screen or a testcard with epg info running.
TV services
June:
21st: ESPN America HD 431.
28th: Hallmark Channel HD.
30th: Music Choice music channels to close on Sky.
July:
Five HD. (Channel TBC a place holder?)
Autumn:
BBC One HD.
Sometime in 2010:
Sky Sports News HD.
STV HD (unconfirmed date but testing).
2011:
TLC (from Discovery) (Spring).
Racing UK HD.
Sky to take control of Virgin Medias portfolio of channels: Living, Bravo, Challenge, Virgin 1 (to be rebranded).
Unconfirmed date:
Sky VOD service.
Playhouse Disney to rebrand to Disney Junior.
Film4 HD (Summer 2010 confirmed to be on Virgin Media).
Living TV HD.
Bravo HD.
Travel Channel HD.
Food Network HD.
Good Food HD.
Club:Scene TV (live concerts a music channel?)
Fashion TV HD.
Eurosport 2 HD.
The Property Channel (full channel later this year)
Milkshake? (From Five).
Diva TV rebranded with Universal name
Hallmark rebranded with Universal name.
Disney Channel HD (According to upcoming channels page).
Nickelodeon HD (Some programmes on MTVN HD).
ITV1+1.
no start dates at all currently known
General entertainment
pull Video On Demand on Sky HD boxes 2010
Living HD
Animal Planet HD
C5 Childrens Channel (possibly called Milkshake)
Good Food HD
Bravo HD
Challenge HD
Film4 HD
Planet Green (from Discovery)
Scottish Gold joint venture between BBC Scotland and STV
Movies4Women
Movies4Women 2
Zone Club
Asian / African
-
News
NewsX Hindi language news service
Sports
Eurosport News
Games / Interactive / Gambling
-
Kids
Kidsco early 2010
S4C Kids provisional name - welsh language childrens channel
Zone Superheroes
Adult
-
Shopping
-
Local / Regional TV
Scotborders TV - my unofficial name for a local service for the Scottish Borders & Dumfries and Galloway
Religious
-
Specialist
Home & Garden Channel Yank lifestyle channel
Fine Living Network Yank lifestylechannel
Veria TV wellness / lifestyle programmes
Music
Great American Country Music
Venus Hits
Unlikely to launch
These channels were on the main list but nothing has been heard of them for many months, so they have been relegated to this list. If any definite news appears they will move back onto the main list. In the meantime its now very unlikely these will ever appear
General entertainment
RTE International planned for 2008/9 but RTE have severe financial problems
Event TV
NGO TV
Animax Sony anime channel
Planet Matters
The Queer Channel (for gays)
RNTV
Channel 4 Shortcuts
HBO UK
13th Street
Retro Cinema
Gaelic Channel (Name provisional. Partnership between ITV Scottish, & ITV Grampian)
SciTech
Gong (anime)
AT (from Harmony TV - who havent got their FIRST channel on air yet let alone their second......)
The Drama Channel (from Chart Show TV)
4US(my unofficial name for forthcoming Channel 4 service to showcase their American series)
Focus TV (new Zimbabwean based service serving South African expats)
Pride TV (LBGT)
Portugal Channel (lifestyle & tourism)
MPL
Luxury Channel
Hallmark 2
Travel & Cruise
Mystery Channel
Destinations TV
GXT
Asian / African
NDTV Life travel & lifestyle
Asian Glamour
MATV Sukrit (Indian religious)
Zee Tegulu
Zee Kannada
Apnah Vision
NDTV Nation
Rotana Europe (full launch)
Sahara Samay (news)
AMC Banglavision
CNNIBN
UNN News Asian news
Bridges TV (Muslim lifestyle channel)
Vox Africa TV
South African TV Ltd
Channel East (relaunch)
Mashriq TV
Hum TV (Pakistan)
Indus TV (Urdu)
Indus Music (Urdu)
News
Channel 7 (Indian news service)
ITN News
Sports
NFL Network
At The Races 2
Football Mad TV
ITV Sport
Games / Interactive / Gambling
Poker Channel +1
Casino News Network
Kids
Jetix boys channel (name currently unknown - may be GTX), aimed at boys aged 13-19)
Adult
Playboy 2
Cultoons (adult cartoons)
Play Girl TV
Animatrix
Touch TV
Shopping
The Shopping Channel
ITV Shop
mature content Network
Cut Price TV
Local / Regional TV
Scotland on TV
See TV (from Life TV - full launch on their own epg number)
This Is Yorkshire
Religious
Direction TV
Islam Channel Urdu
Islam 4U
Ark TV
Specialist
Start Your Business TV
World Fashion Channel
Parent TV
Music
NR1
C Music TV (launched onto 9E)
Konta MTV
U-Rock
Check 1:2
Channels removed from the epg in 2009 with no obvious replacement service taking over
1 Sports Xchange (456)
2 Overseas Property (274)
3 The Business Channel (547)
4 Raaj Radio (0141)
5 Nuts TV (196)
6 Nuts TV +1 (210)
7 Wine TV (264)
8 Radio Tatras International (0195)
9 Bubble Hits (379)
10 Travel Channel 2 (253)
11 G2 Family (340)
12 Arsenal TV Replay (448)
13 Real Estate TV (262)
14 Real Estate TV +1 (263)
15 Asian Star Radio (0213)
16 AHTV (454)
17 Zee Gurjurati (811)
18 Club Asia (0145)
19 Casino TV (870)
20 JJB Sports (674)
21 The Hits (0170)
22 Smash Hits(0172)
23 Heat (0179)
24 Q (0181)
25 Kerrang (0183)
26 Zee radio (0215)
27 Bedroom TV (962)
28 Arrow Rock (0161)
29 Setanta Sports News (418)
30 Setanta 1 (423)
31 Setanta 2 (424)
32 Setanta Golf (429)
33 Celtic TV (436)
34 Rangers TV (438)
35 Setanta Commercial (437?)
36 Tron Direct 2 (684)
37 Monte Carlo TV (863)
38 AIT Moviestar (330)
39 Audi Channel (884)
40 Deutsche Welle TV (794)
41 Arsenal TV (435)
42 Racing World (443)
43 Life TV 186
44 World Movies (331)
45 Cupid TV (879)
46 TVE Intenational (795)
47 HBW TV (963)
48 SA Direct (270)
49 Punjjabi TV (838)
50 Hot Digital (0212)