Latest news from 28E / Channels coming to Sky 2009

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According to Andy Sennitt on the Radio Netherlands blog DutchIntSv on 0205 (Radio Netherlands) is to close in the near future

We have already dropped that service as of mid-February. The reason it’s still on the air is that WRN is waiting for another client to take over the EPG slot, so it will disappear without notice. We got very little response to this service from the UK. The rest of Europe can tune into our Astra signal at 19.2 E, which also doubles as a feeder service to transmitter sites in Europe

 

[Zorba]

Men and motors now on 2D .10.891H, 22 , 5/6. on ch178. Which means now available in Cyprus on a 3m dish. (we"lost" it years ago)

 

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AAP TV has finally been renamed Hidayat TV on epg 803

 

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Setanta channel AH TV has been removed from epg 454

LA Babes has been removed from epg 956.

 

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Epg updates:


246 - UKTV Style has been re-labelled Home
247 - UKTV Style +1 has been re-labelled Home+1

838 - Jaagran has ceased and been replaced by Punjaabi

 

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Zee Gurjurati closed off epg 811 yesterday. Its been axed due to poor performances in its home Indian market

Zee Radio has been reprieved for a month and is now scheduled to close on May 31st

 

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Club Asia has closed off epg 0145. They have decided to drop the satellite transmission and join the DAB platform instead.

 

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Two more Zone channels are on the way.

Almost certainly these will be Zone Thriller +1 and Zone Romantica +1 as these are the two main channels that dont have timeshifts.

Zone bought the Real Estate / +1 epg slots off Fox Media when the Real Estate channels closed a few months back.

 

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French movie channel CineMoi has scrambled today on 839.

Nigerian movie channel AIT Moviestar on 330 goes premium encrypted tomorrow.

 

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French movie channel CineMoi has scrambled today on 839.

Nigerian movie channel AIT Moviestar on 330 goes premium encrypted tomorrow.

The AIT Movistar encryption has been put back to June 16th

 

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Two removals from the epg today:

Religious channel DBN was taken off 595 after a couple of days at black level.

Asian channel KBC on 836 have been having technical problems but expect to be back shortly

 

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The final UKTV channel rebrand will happen on June 10th.

UKTV Food becomes Good Food

 

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A BBC HD promo has appeared on Astra 2A north beam

11856V
29500 3/4

DVB-S2 mode, fta

Sky HD digiboxes wont tune this in as you cant select 29500 on the SR

 

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More channel removals:

Casino TV - off 870
JJB Sports - off 674
TVEI - off 785

Casion TV & JJB seem to have closed totally. TVEI is still operating off the epg.

 

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UKTV Gardens has been replaced by another stupid name. This time the new channel is called Really on EPG 248

 

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Changs in the adult section of the epg:
905 TVX FFWD replaced by Filth
913 Red Hot Girl replaced by Cream
935 Red Hot Only 18 replaced by Skincity

 

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Wedding TV +1 becomes Wedding TV Asia on 1st June:

 

[Zorba]

UKTV Gardens has been replaced by another stupid name. This time the new channel is called Really on EPG 248

Oh really ?

 

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Five radio stations owned by Bauer will be removed next week:

Q, Heat Radio, Kerrang, The Hits & Smash Hits

Bauer want to concentrate their resources on DAB and Freeview

 

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The Bauer radio channels were removed on the 26th:

0170 - The Hits
0172 - Smash Hits
0179 - Heat
0181 - Q
0183 - Kerrang