Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2006

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Al Jazeera International have renamed to Al Jazeera English ahead of tomorrows official launch.

 

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Al Jazeera English has launched onto epg 514. Full service starts at 1200 UTC today.

 

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Russian news channel Russia Today has appeared on Information TV 2 on Sky epg 182 overnight. This is part of a growing trend for foreign broadcasters to buy air time on UK services. Nigerian news service ATI transmits overnight on OBE.

 

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Information TV are looking to launch Information TV 3 in February 2007. In an update to the previous post, Russia Today is now available 21 hours a day in Info TV 2 (epg 182). The exception is 1000-1300 when programming from The Jewellery Channel is aired.

 

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Setanta Golf is due to launch on January 8th 2007.

 

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The Business Channel will launch onto epg 547 on Monday

 

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Its now looking unlikely that Fight+ will ever launch in the UK. According to Wikipedia they are bankrupt.

 

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The Wedding Channel are epg testing on 11343H 27500 2/3 tagged as "53280"

 

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Just launched:

The Business Channel - onto 547
Turn On TV 2 - onto 961

 

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Birmingham based Raj TV (187) have gone off air whilst they restructure the operation. They are planning on moving over towards more live programming, although the most popular of the current recorded shows will be retained

 

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NTL seem to have ended their broadband & telephone packages adverts on Broadband UK (epg 663). Vector Direct appear to have taken over the programming.

 

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The Vectone channels are now unlikely to return. According to Biz Asia Sky took their channels off air due to "non compliance"

According to a reliable source, BSkyB suspended five of the six Vectone TV channels EPG for "non-compliance". Meaning, the EPG slots were not used to their full potential. The removed Vectone TV channels were not broadcasting the hours that were agreed with Sky. All that remains of Vectone now is their 'Vectone2U' channel, which broadcasts a mere 2 hours a day (minimum time agreed with Sky).

 

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At The Races has moved over onto Astra 2D. So if any of our expats are wondering why they sudeenly cant watch the geegees - now you know.

 

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Solent TV will be launching in January.

 

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Star Gold (829) and Star One (830) launch tomorrow

 

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Solent TV will launch January 15th, with test transmissions starting December 4th

 

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2 launches this afternoon:

Star One - onto 829
Star Gold - onto 830

 

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Raj TV has been removed from 187

 

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Five US are currently fta on 12422H 27500 2/3 tagged as "7505". Its flagged as encrypted so its NOT going to be available to dodgyboxes. On proper receivers only Im afraid to say.

 

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Vectone 2U have been removed from 821 sometime in the last couple of days. Theis is the removal of the final wreckage of the dreadful Vectone operation