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Dave +1 has been rebranded Dave Ja Vu on epg 158

 

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National Geographic Wild HD has started testing on 12246V 29500 3/4 tagged as 3885

 

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Sky Arts HD will split into Sky Arts HD1 & Sky Arts HD2 on march 2nd. To begin with they will be timesharing:

Sky Arts 1 HD (epg 258): on air from 19.00 until close

Sky Arts 2 HD (epg 259): on air from 08.00 until 19.00

This shows the old Rock-On-TV epg slot was sold to Sky Arts.

 

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Dirty Talk has launched onto epg 964

 

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Crime & Investigation Network +1 is now testing on 11260H tagged as 52169. Scrambled in NDS, its now expected to launch on March 2nd.

 

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A moments silence for Border TV if you please lads n lasses. The final Lookaround news programme to be transmitted from the Carlisle studios went out last night.

Our news service now consists of no more than an opt out service from the Tyne Tees studios in Gateshead. The Carlisle studios are now up for sale - no need for them as Border playout has been done from Leeds for several years.

Basically its the end of Border TV as any relevant part of the ITV network & its only a matter of time until the region is dismantled and spread out between the other regions..

Michael Grade I hope you rot in hell for eternity for what you have done to ITV in the last few years.

 

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Punjjabi TV will launch onto Sky in early April

 

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Several changes already this morning:

537 - UKTV History have renamed to Yesterday
538 - UKTV History +1 have renamed to Yesterday +1
666 - JML BeautyShop has been renamed to JML Lifestyle

 

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More changes:

253 - Travel Channel 2 has closed.
253 - Style Network has moved from 276
258 - Sky Art HD has renamed Sky Arts HD1
259 - Sky Arts HD2 has launched
554 - Crime & Investigation Network +1 has launched

 

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Living +2 launches by April 1st. No news yet as to which channel will be sacrificed to get it on air.

 

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Pulse +45 has been removed from 208.

Its epg slot has been bought by Rural TV which has launched onto 279

 

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G2 Family has been removed from epg 340. They have been off air a few days so presumably thats another one thats closed.

 

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G2 Family have ceased reporting to the BARB audience research people so yes they have closed.

 

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Discovery Real Time Extra (epg 241) will disappear on March 20th - its being replaced by Discovery Shed

 

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Virgin Media Have put all their tv channels up for sale, so there must be some doubt over the long term future of some of them.

_http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/200903053303/virgin-medias-channels-up-for-sale.html

Amongst the channels up for sale are:

Living, Trouble, Bravo, Virgin's 50% share of UKTV, plus the shopping channels Bid TV, Price Drop TV & Speed Auction TV

 

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More indications that the Setanta operation is struggling. This from Digital Spy:


Setanta has launched a comprehensive review of its entire pay TV offering, it has emerged.

According to The Irish Examiner, the international sports broadcaster is trying to find ways to develop its business after losing half its Premier League live TV rights to Sky in early February. Analysts have warned that Setanta may not be able to survive in its current form because the loss of the Premier League rights could impede its ability to attract a sufficient number of subscribers.

The company appointed Close Brothers merchant bank to raise £159m in new funding to try and buy some games back from Sky after the decision was announced. However, some press reports now indicate it is trying to renegotiate its entire complement of rights deals in case it needs to pare back its channels to a core offering.

 

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The Jetix channels will be rebranded as Disney XD by the end of the year

 

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If you had been wondering what happened to the 4 Pulse channels:


Pulse (197) was sold to Dirty Talk which moved to 964.
Pulse +1(204) was sold to HiTV and stayed on 204.
Pulse +30mins (207) was sold to OBE which stayed on 207.
Pulse +45mins (was 208) was sold to Rural TV and moved to 279.

 

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Virgin Media Have put all their tv channels up for sale, so there must be some doubt over the long term future of some of them.

_http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/200903053303/virgin-medias-channels-up-for-sale.html

Amongst the channels up for sale are:

Living, Trouble, Bravo, Virgin's 50% share of UKTV, plus the shopping channels Bid TV, Price Drop TV & Speed Auction TV

More indications that the Setanta operation is struggling. This from Digital Spy:


Setanta has launched a comprehensive review of its entire pay TV offering, it has emerged.

According to The Irish Examiner, the international sports broadcaster is trying to find ways to develop its business after losing half its Premier League live TV rights to Sky in early February. Analysts have warned that Setanta may not be able to survive in its current form because the loss of the Premier League rights could impede its ability to attract a sufficient number of subscribers.

The company appointed Close Brothers merchant bank to raise £159m in new funding to try and buy some games back from Sky after the decision was announced. However, some press reports now indicate it is trying to renegotiate its entire complement of rights deals in case it needs to pare back its channels to a core offering.

Dont sound too good, looks like a lot could go

 

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More rebrands coming up :

16th March

Channel U rebrands to Channel AKA

Fizz rebrands to Starz