Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2009

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OBE was removed from 207 again this afternoon

 

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All C5 channels currently carried on Astra 2C 10964H are moving to Astra 2A south beam 12422H 27500 2/3. This is probably not good news for some of our distant expats.

This is because Astra 2C is being redeployed to 31.5E for a year or so to cover for the failure of Astra 5A which broke down in January.

 

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Luckily we receive 12,422H very well on a 1.5m offset dish, and the channels are up and running .

 

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Fitness.TV will launch fta in June

 

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More indications the Setanta operation is in trouble. Two investment companies have written their shareholdings down as worthless, and there are rumours the rugby & boxing coverage will be scrapped.

 

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Virgin Media is to close Trouble. It will be replaced by a new Living channel

 

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Epg 213 - Young@Heart has been renamed Elite TV Still showing the same public domain rubbish though

 

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Two music channel rebrands:

370 - Channel U is now Channel AKA
371 - Fizz is now Channel Starz

 

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Cupid TV has moved EPG numbers from 887 to 879.

 

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OBE returned to epg 207 yet again a couple of days ago

 

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Discovery Real Time Extra was scrapped this morning - it was replaced on epg 242 by Discovery Shed

 

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LA Babes has closed off epg 956

 

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Nigeria Movies on epg 333 are running promos saying they will be going subscription soon

 

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Its confirmed that Trouble will be axed on April 1st. Its epg place will be taken by Living +2

 

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The next two UKTV channels to be rebranded will be UKTV Style & UKTV Gardens.

UKTV Style becomes Home on April 30th

UKTV Gardens becomes Really on May 19th

 

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National Geographic Wild HD will launch on April 1st

 

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One of the HD test channels is currently carrying Sky Sports 3 in HD Its tagged as 3850 and is on 12012V

 

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All C5 channels currently carried on Astra 2C 10964H are moving to Astra 2A south beam 12422H 27500 2/3. This is probably not good news for some of our distant expats.

This is because Astra 2C is being redeployed to 31.5E for a year or so to cover for the failure of Astra 5A which broke down in January.

Five on EPG 105 went off for 10 minutes this morning 'no sat received'. Wonder if 105 is now being mapped to 12.422h

 

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Unconfirmed reports suggest Real Estate TV / +1 are closing on April 1st

 

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Epg 213 - Young@Heart has been renamed Elite TV Still showing the same public domain rubbish though

Elite TV programming launches on April 1st - its going to be a slapper-on-a-sofa channel.