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Channel 425 is to move epg slot, and rename to Channel 854

 

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source - http://www.newzimbabwe.com

By Staff Reporter
Last updated: 03/01/2006 07:45:15
A NEW television channel in the UK will compete with the Original Black Entertainment (OBE) station for Southern African viewers, New Zimbabwe.com can reveal.

The new channel to be called Focus Television will launch on Sky digital in July, sources revealed.

Former Zimbabwe TV and radio presenter, Eric Knight, is one of the directors of the new multi-million pound project.

Currently, Africans only have OBE TV to watch for entertainment programmes and current affairs. However, OBE has received a severe battering from critics who say its programmes are poor and it is generally biased towards West African viewers.

Knight, now living in Manchester, England, declined to comment Tuesday, only saying: "It seems you have your facts pretty much nailed down. I don't intend to comment at this stage."

But sources have told New Zimbabwe.com that Zimbabwean Big Brother sensation, Makosi Musambasi, has been approached to do an "Oprah Winfery-style TV show" on the new channel.

"The station will be officially launched in July but currently, they are working on the programmes and Makosi has been approached. It looks like the next biggest TV thing for Africans in the UK," a source said.

The new TV station has four directors, one from Ghana, the other from South Africa and two Zimbabweans including Knight -- a prominent former Zimbabwe TV and radio entertainer.

The station has already approached Zimbabwe's state TV to carry their news bulletins, and could be soon doing the same with South Africa's SABC, sources said.

"The idea is to give the viewers a taste of home, although we know the news programmes can be extremely one-sided stuff," said a source close to the new station.

 

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Todays epg changes:

Boomerang +1 launched onto 621
Cartoon Network + closed off 602
Toonami moved from 621 to 602
Quiz Call moved 853 to 855

 

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Heres something you may not have run across. Tune to OBE (Sky 159) in the evening. You may find SABC 2 news on.

Or late at night, look out for AIT(African Independant TV) from Nigeria on BEN

 

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Price Crash 2 are to launch on March 27th. Trade testing on 11343H 24500 2/3 tagged with a {blank} channel name
Yes661 will rebrand to Price Crash on the same day

 

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Racing World has been added to epg 433

 

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ITV has confirmed the launch of games channel ITV Play. It will launch on FreeView DTT on April 19th, and onto satellite later in the year.

ITV Play branded programming will feature on ITV1 and ITV2 overnight from 31st March.

 

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Sci Fi +1 have started epg testing on 11.914 H 27500 2/3 tagged as
"4913"

 

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Disney will be launching Cinemania +1 along with its sister station on the 16th. Epg allocations will be:


Cinemagic - 612
Cinemagic +1 - 613
Disney - moves to 613

 

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Sci Fi +1 have started epg testing on 11.914 H 27500 2/3 tagged as
"4913"

This test now seems to have ceased

 

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Asian radio service Radio XL is planning to launch later in the year.

 

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ESPN Classic Sport has launched onto 442

 

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Sci Fi +1 to launch April 3rd onto epg 130

Al Jazeera International reported full testing on 11681V 27500 2/3

 

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Religious service Revelation TV spin off R-Music launches April 3rd

 

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What appear to be 2 new shopping channels are testing.

From epg info, what may be Greece Cyprus Direct TV has appeared on 11642V 27500 2/3 tagged as "50905".

Thers also an unknown station showing old Express Shopping tapes. -tuning details later

 

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Epg tests for Sci Fi +1 have returned on 11914H 27500 2/3 - "4913"

 

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R-Music testing on 12523H 27500 2/3 tagged as "55010"

 

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London TV has closed as expected. It has turned in to Celebrity Shop and moved from 277 to 676.

Broadband TV 2 has moved from 851 onto 675

Look 4 Love has moved onto 916

 

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CITV will launch on Sky on May 8th.

 

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If you are a Pink Floyd fan, check out the BBCi STREAM 2 on 12441V. it was showing a short section of a Radio 2 concert last night

Only 3 tracks, but the guitar playing on Crazy Diamond was superb