Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2006

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Good bye VH2. It hs rebranded to MTV Flux

 

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Three launches this morning.

Channel S ATN onto 827
Record Radio onto 0206
ITV1 Central SW launched onto 103 in the south west Midlands

 

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The Entrepreneur Channel is testing on 11389H 27500 2/3

tagged as "52416"

 

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New on 11389H 27500 2/3 is D8. Tagged as "52429".

Currently testing late at night it appears to be time sharing:

Psychic TV (5.30am - 11pm)
D8 (11pm - 2am)
You TV 2 Extra (2am - 5.30am)

 

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GDTV has been removed from 672. The removal is not unexpected as this was the sister service to One TV which had its transmission licence revoked recently.

 

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Milton Keynes TV are going to miss their initial launch slot this autumn and now plan to launch in the Spring instead. They have announced they werent going to be ready in time.

 

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Asian shopping channel Apna Bazaar is to disappear on September 19th. They will be replaced by a new Asian entertainment and technology channel - Int2One TV. EPG number is reported to be staying 809.

Int2One TV will specialise in programmes targeting the South Asian community with shows in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati.

 

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Theres a chance Zee TV will be launching 2 new regional services in the UK next year.

Zee Tegulu and Zee Kannada are the channels involved, further info here:

_http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2006/09/zee_to_launch_r.php

 

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rapture tv is in dispute with sky over its epg charges i heard and they might be removed from the epg as they have posted

http://www.rapturetv.net/pressrelease/

http://www.rapturetv.net/sky.html

(remove if in the wrong section)

 

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Entrepreneur TV will be getting epg 682 when they launch

 

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Todays launches:

The Entrepreneur Channel - onto 682
Live XXX TV - onto 875
BabestarXtra - onto 959

 

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some more text in and show us your boobs channels nice lol

 

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A second Spectrum Radio stream has appeared on 11390V 27500 2/3. Its not parallel to Spectrum 1 so must be for the expected Spectrum 2

 

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Bravo Player will be rebranded Bravo 2 next week. There will be a minor epg swap around for Bravo and Challenge:

121 Bravo
122 Bravo +1 Hour
123 Bravo 2
124 Challenge
125 Challenge +1 Hour

 

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Looks like American religious channel The Word Network is gearing up for a full launch (at the moment its just running a radio channel with the audio output from the channel). they seem to be epg testing on 11662H tagged as "51005"

 

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Bravo 2 is confirmed to be launching Friday. It will launch onto epg 123 replacing Player

 

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Jackpot TV has been removed from 848. Good riddance!

 

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SES have announced a new tp deal with C5. Five wil be launching new channels --> probably in the late 2007 time frame.

 

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The expected Flextech epg shuffle has happened, and Bravo Player has ceased operations

Challenge has moved from 121 to 124
Challenge +1 has moved from 122 to 125

Bravo 2 has launched onto epg 123 with Player closing

Bravo has moved from 124 to 121
Bravo +1 has moved from 125 to 122

 

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Al Jazeera is reported to be closing off Sky tomorrow. No reasons known yet