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Euronews added an Arabic language soundtrack around August 13th.

 

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Two possible HD launches - Sky Real Lives HD & God TV HD.......

 

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Hi Analoguesat, is Eurosport News currently FTA if so how do I go about getting it on my Thomson box?

Eurosport News was reported as fully encrypted - not that it matters at the moment - the tests have ceased whilst Ive been on holiday

 

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NFL Network have postponed their launch plans until 2009 at the earliest

 

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Punjabi current affairs channel PTC News is in negotiations with various parties to launch the service in the UK market.

Its likely they would launch as a programme strand on Music India to begin with.

 

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TV Warehouse Select to on epg 651 was renamed TV Warehouse 2 on the 15th July

 

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DMAX +1.5 and Nicktoonsters will launch by August 18th The DMAX channel is probably a placeholder for a new channel.

 

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Eurosport HD launched onto 412 on July 15th. It is reported to be be showing Eurosport International not British Eurosport

 

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The long planned BBC Gaelic is due to launch in September 19th

 

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There was a mini shuffle of the Setanta channels on July 16th


417 - NASN (not moved)
418 - Setanta Sports News
423 - Setanta Sports 1
424 - Setanta Sports 2
429 - Setanta Golf
430 - Setanta Ireland
432 - Racing UK (not moved)
433 - Racing World (not moved)
434 - Liverpool FC TV
435 - Arsenal TV
436 - Celtic TV (not moved)
437 - Setanta Commercial Channel (not moved?)
438 - Rangers TV (not moved)
448 - Arsenal Replay
454 - AH TV (not moved)

(Northern Ireland and Ireland, Setanta Ireland is on 418 and Setanta Sports News is on 430.)

 

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July 21st:

The shopping & religious channels shuffled as expected, and the Discovery channels also moved a little:

250 - Discovery Real Time
251 - Discovery Real Time +1
252 - Discovery Real Time Extra

264 - Discovery Home & Health
265 - Discovery Home & Health +1

Pulse +1 launched onto 214

Nepali TV launched onto 834, although it seems to just carry NTV Bangladesh...

 

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Sports betting / odds channel SportsXchange launched onto 456 on July 23rd.

 

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The BBC Gaelic channel is epg testing on 11953H 27500 2/3 tagged as 6736

 

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what's happening on Eurobird 1, tp 11623, 11680 and 11546 ?
they seem to carry FTA versions of SciFi (ID 54015), SciFi+1 (ID 54011), Hallmark+1 (ID 51110) and Diva+1 (ID 54009). And there's some sort of aquarium on ID 50430.....

 

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Sci Fi seem to be moving onto EB1. The Hallmark & Diva timeshifts are new and due to launch soon - hadnt got that far in my updating

The aquarium appears to be a timeshift for Awareness TV. Now though this might seem to be fairly pointless, Awareness are epg brokers so theres probably a new channel launching through them fairly soon.

 

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The owners of the now closed Aapna TV will be launching a new Kashmiri channel called KBC in a few weeks time.

It will broadcast shows in Pahari and Mirpuri, with selected programmes also in Pothowari and Hindko

The backers of Aapna TV had a disagreement over how the channels should be run so went their seperate ways, leading to the establishment of Aap TV and KBC.

KBC is epg testing on 11343H 27500 2/3 tagge as 53275
KBC +1 is epg testing on 12525V 27500 2/3 tagged as 55211

 

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Kashmiri channels KBC / KBC 2 expect to launch on August 24th. It looks like the second channel will be known as KBC 2 although it will just be a straight timeshift at least to begin with.

 

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Indian channel Colours are looking at launching in the UK at some point.

 

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More updates from when I was off on holiday. Two fta tests

Diva +1 - 11662H 27500 2/3 tagged as 54009
Hallmark +1 - 11680V 27500 2/3 tagged as 51110

Both should launch onto the epg in the next couple of weeks.

 

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Awareness +1 is testing on 11546H 27500 2/3 tagged as 50430