Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2009

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Most channels are now off air.

Setanta Sports 1 & 2 & Golf are carrying a ceased trading info card. Rangers & Celtic are at black level. Setanta Sports News has a holding card on.

Racing UK & Setanta Ireland are still on air.

Setanta Ireland will continue to run while they try to find a buyer for them..although its not looking good.

 

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Setanta Ireland is currently ftv on 11584H if anyone wants a rare look

 

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Racing UK will continue as a standalone channel. 20 quid a month has been mentioned

 

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ILM Radio has started testing on 11222H 27500 2/3 tagged as 52026. Its expected to launch onto 0161

 

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Some updates from the last week or so Ive missed:

NickToons Replay is launching by July 20th

Sky News HD will launch in 2010

ESPN will launch ESPN HD channel to show some of thier newly acquired football games on. A new standard def channel is expected as well

Jetix will be replaced by Disney XD in August

UKTV Food / +1 rebranded to Good Food / +1 on the 22nd.

 

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Arrow Rock ceasd off 0161 on the 22nd.

 

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MTV One /+1 will rebrand to MTV / +1 on July 1st

 

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ESPN America is now available as part of the News & Events pack on the sky platform (Channel 417) in the UK.

The News & Events pack is one of 6 entertainment packs available through Sky. If you are a Sky TV subscriber and do not currently have the News & Events Pack as part of your subscription, you can add the News & Events pack for £1.

source - ESPN web site _http://www.espnamerica.com/portal/systemcontent/howtoget::uk

 

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Ive been off wandering around the Andorran mountains and getting sunburned, so heres the usual late round up of events whilst Ive been off enjoying myself

Virgin Media are expected to launch Living HD later in the year.

Bravo HD & Challenge HD are in the pipeline but have been delayed due to the poor economic climate

 

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Peace TV Urdu started testing on July 2nd.

 

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Epg changes on July 6th:

Hallmark moved from 150 to 130

Hallmark +1 moved from 205 to 150

Sci Fi +1 moved from 130 to 205

275 Wedding TV +1 changed to Wedding TV Asia

 

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All the defunct Setanta channels were removed from the epg on July 7th.

Adios to:

418 - Setanta Sports News
423 - Setanta 1
424 - Setanta 2
429 - Setanta Golf
436 - Celtic TV
438 - Rangers TV
Setanta Commercial was also removed at this time.

 

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ESPN America (417) will be rebranded ESPN on August 4th in time for the start of the new football season,

 

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Sky Box Office 742 will close on July 28th. This normally indicates a new HD channel is on the way - presumably this will be for ESPN HD - which will be broadcast on 443

 

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Tron Direct 2 was removed from 684 around July 8th.

 

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Fitness TV launches on August 10th

They are epg testing on 12560V 27500 2/3 tagged as 54165

 

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July 9th epg changes:

925 - Fantasy was renamed Grind
960 - Chat Back removed

 

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Talks are ongoing about launching Good Food HD

 

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A new fitness / lifestyle channel will launch later in the summer . LA Muscle TV will broadcast for 15 hours a day.

They can be found epg testing on 12607H 27500 2/3 tagged as 55247

 

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Propeller has been bought by a Chinese merchant, so we can expect changes in that channel in the not too distant future.