SKY Channels etc; ..WEEK # 5.o
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ALL CHANNELS HAVE SYMBOL RATE OF 27.5 AND AN F.E.C. OF 2/3. EXCEPT WHERE LISTED.
I. D.…….………..Freq; ………..……..INFO
Service1…………10.714 H sr: 22.000, fec:5/6 William Road bars (16:9) & tone.. (Thanks, OTIS)
52106……………11.264 H sr; 22.000, fec; 2/3 Showing Half Red bars and tone, For The Gay Network(Thanx c.barber)
7500……………..12.422 H Showing Teachers Channel (in WideScreen), at times William Road bars & tone (Thanks Otis)
6300……………..10.758 V sr, 22.000, fec; 5/6. “William Road” Colour Bars & Tone, “encrypted”
50686……………11.585 H.No Signal present.
51117……………11.681 V No Signal present.
7521….........…….12.441 H. “William Road” Colour Bars & Tone (not “seen” by a digibox if not already stored)
2gbstp…........……11.662 H With technical fault
cet……………….12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.
52536……………11.488 V. Showing , Simply Shopping 638
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Audio Channels
5742.........….…12.324 V For Smooth FM (Now Testing)Thanx Digi Man. www.smoothfm.com
53561…………11.390 V No Audio Present.
9567……….….12.402 V No Audio Present.
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Newsie Bits
1. 10.714 H was activated on last Friday(28th). This means all 16 Astra 2D transponder frequencies are now activated. (Thanks, OTIS)
2. If you are fed up constantly having to phone an 0870 or similar to Sky Subscriber Centre and you have the option of being able to phone any national number in your phone bundle in effect “Free” (Telewest and BT Have similar call charges). Then Lakhvinder Baddhan over at www.media247.co.uk/skydigital has numbers that fall within your bundle and won’t cost you any more than you already pay
3. The people behind Reality TV will be launching Reality Life + 2 new channels. Details: www.zonevision.co.uk/newsroo…l.php?pr=040322
4. Discovery will rename the existing Discovery Travel & Adventure channel to Discovery Travel & Living on Tuesday (?) February 1st 2005. As part of a strategy to create a network of international lifestyle channels, the Discovery Home & Leisure is also set for a name change and a redefinition of its demographic focus towards the end of 2005. The channel will be rebranded Discovery Real Time to bring it in line with its sister networks, currently rolling out worldwide
5. The world of pop culture, collectables and memorabilia merge on AUTHENTIC TV the UK’s newest and most original network launching on 1st February on Sky Digital, channel 687.(Full details:- http://www.shoppingtelly.com/)
6. TWC Reload on Channel 428 seems to be having a hiatus, it only seems to broadcast from 3am till 6am (or is it that I have only just noticed)
7. Teachers TV, the channel from the Department for Education and Skills, currently testing on “7500” will launch on February 8th.
8. Sound tv(Formerly The Great British Television Channel),are now hoping for a late February launch on Sky sharing with Information TV on 558. The channel I.D. will change to Sound TV (Thanks to Analoguesat & Media 24/7). Further Details:- http://www.soundtv.co.uk/ Their site has an email link to inform potential viewers when it is likely to launch!!
9. JML Home shopping is to launch a joint shopping channel with Kleeneze which will be available on Sky . The channel, to be renamed Eezee TV, will launch March 1st with 16 hours of live and 8 hours of pre-recorded programming each day, giving a 24 hour service.
10. UKTV to launch gardening channel called UKTV Style Gardens, the new station would feature shows such as Challenge, The Weekend Gardener and Ground Force, as well as new content. UKTV Style Gardens launches on Monday 21st March on EPG 144 and will transmit daily from 07:00 – 01:00. The new channel will also result in UKTV Food moving from its current EPG 144 slot to 145, UKTV Food +1 to 146 and UKTV Drama moving to 147. (Details :- http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/01/uktv_confirm_ne.php
11. ZEE TV is set to become the biggest Asian TV network in the UK by adding a fifth entertainment channel to its current network called Alpha Gujarati Due to launch 28th March
12. Two New Movie Channel due to launch soon from sit-up, the company behind auction channels bid-up.tv and price-drop.tv. Movies on 333 will consist of "westerns and showcase the best student films. Real-movies.tv will feature "TV and cinematic releases based on real-life events," Full story:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18118.htmli Further Details :- www.sit-up.tv
13. Channel 4 is reportedly considering moving entertainment subscription channel E4 onto the free-to-air Freeview platform. E4 is committed to Sky until 2008 and also has carriage deals with cable operators NTL and Telewest, but is said to be looking at moving E4 perhaps as early autumn. By that time it hopes Freeview will be big enough to generate sufficient advertising revenues to sustain the channel. Broadcast magazine
14. Channel 4 is getting into Radio along with UBC Media, who currently own the Oneword digital station, which broadcasts on Sky, Freeview, and on cable.
15. ITV has announced a 10-year deal with Teletext to launch and operate commercial and editorial text services across all the ITV family of channels in digital homes. The new service, which will be branded 'Teletext on ITV', will be accessible on all digital platforms giving viewers in multichannel homes direct access via the text button on their remote control. The 'Teletext on ITV' service will first launch on digital satellite and digital terrestrial during early summer 2005. The service will include news, sport, weather, travel, lottery results plus entertainment features including content relating to ITV programmes. Since ITV3's launch on 1 November, the ITV channels' combined share of viewing has increased by 6 per cent. The new text service will join Teletext's existing services on Sky and Freeview. From:-www.uk-wire.com
16. ITV is planning to launch ITV4, an interactive gaming channel, to add to its existing portfolio of ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3 next year. See here for Details:- www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&ID=230311
17. Fashion TV is hoping to be back on the Sky lineup soon, after a dispute with the broadcaster. The free-to-air station was dropped from the EPG, but is now keen to return as part of Sky’s subscription package, enabling it to receive subscriber revenues. (More :- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds17514.html)
18. Following the success of channel Five's children band Milkshake, the broadcaster is set to launch its first digital kids TV channel soon. The channel is being devised by Nick Wilson, Five's controller of children's programming, who has managed to devise a successful low-cost approach costing around £7m a year - a quarter of ITV's spending - despite fierce competition. He is also expanding Five's range and appeal to children by targeting school-aged boys on Saturday mornings, with strands such as No Boys Allowed, and documentaries on Sundays, something also being pioneered by Sky One with Brainiac. (From:- www.mediabullet.co.uk/skydigital ) But now five are starting to play down the whole idea according to :- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18529.html
19. Channel Five owners, RTL and United Business Media are believed to be considering a merger of Britain’s youngest terrestrial channel with Flextech, the content operation that is part of cable company Telewest. (From :- http://media.guardian.co.uk)
20. Sky is planning a new Sky One spin-off channel. The new station is expected to target women with a lineup of lifestyle programming, according to Broadcast.
21. The UK television licence fee (which is paid exclusively the BBC) is to increase this year. From April 1, a colour license will rise by £5.50 to £126.50, and a black and white licence by £1.50 to £42.
22. The Labour peer leading the review into BBC funding, Lord Burns, has indicated the licence fee would survive for the next 10 years. But a major overhaul of the governors was required and admitted the licence fee could eventually be abolished. The possibility of charging for the BBC’s services electronically or via subscription becomes more attractive. (From Advanced Television)
23. Rapture TV is to return to UK screens. Complete with new programmes. (From :- http://news.rapturetv.com )
24. Al-Jazeera intends to launch a new English language news channel by the end of this year.
25. BskyB wanted Doordarshan to join its platform last November but Broadcasting Secretary of India, wanted to delay it by another 2-3 months so that they get more time in preparing the programming for it
26. India's religious channel Aastha TV is looking at launching in the UK later this year. Aastha broadcasts programming in Hindi, Gujarati and English. This year, the channel has plans to air locally originated programming as well. (From: www.media247.co.uk/skydigital )
27. Channel East is set to relaunch and make a return to Sky Digital.
28. News channel Aaj Tak plans to launch soon.
29. VC; The company behind the two channels, ( Amore & Horror Channel) is planning to launch at least one other new network, no further.details about the third service are known. Amore, may not now start till later this year and will be a stand alone service. (from TELE-satellite)
30. Bridges TV, An American Muslim lifestyle station are looking into launching on SKY in March. Details:- http://www.bridgestv.co.uk
31. That TV http://www.thattv.co.uk have said they want to launch on SKY
32. H2o TV to launch summer 2005 .Details:- www.h2o.tv/
33. There has been no news about Fox new channel, Fuel. Soon as I know, you’ll know.
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HiDef TV – HDTV SECTION
The European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association has announced a standard for HD Ready labeling of TVs, plasma screens and other HD displays. "The “HD ready” label is fully supported by Europe’s national broadcasters. More info :- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18570.html
Sony, has forecast that 20m European households will have high definition TV (HDTV) sets by 2008. HDTV set prices – currently at £2,000 – would continue to fall, making them more of an attractive proposition to the mass consumer market. “Once you show HDTV people are hooked, says Chris Deering, Sony’s European CEO. (From Digital TV Group)
European HDTV pioneer Euro1080 is to launch a second service, HD-2, in June 2005, with the emphasis on pay-per-event. Gabriel Fehervari, General Manager of Euro1080 also revealed that the operator would be using MPEG-4 encoding from that time. In addition to Euro1080’s involvement with SES-Astra, Fehervari confirmed that he had secured distribution deals on alternative satellites such as Sirius, Hellas Sat and Turksat, as well as some 20 cable networks. (From Advanced Television.com & Colin Mann in London)
Toshiba has won a major victory in the battle to determine the standard for next-generation DVD’s with the endorsement by four Hollywood studios of its High Definition-DVD format. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers their supported the HD-DVD format advocated by Toshiba and NEC. Universal Pictures said it would come out with titles in the format during the 2005 holiday season while Paramount committed to bringing content out on HD-DVD in 2006. The support of the Hollywood studios gives a strong boost to the Toshiba camp, which is competing with a group led by Sony to standardise the next generation of optical recording technology. Sony is leading a group of consumer electronics and PC manufacturers promoting the rival Blu-ray Disc format.
The EBU Technical Committee has recommended that Emission standards for HDTV should be based on progressive scanning: 720p/50 is currently the optimum solution, but 1080p/50 is an attractive option for the longer term. Although there are strong technical arguments in favour of progressive scanning for emission, the EBU Technical Committee recognises that some broadcasters might wish to broadcast 1080I-programme material. As consumer electronics equipment (e.g. set-top boxes and displays) will accept both 720p and 1080I formats, broadcasters will be able to select either of these formats * even on a programme-by-programme basis. Taking into account that production and emission standards do not need to be identical, further EBU studies on Production standards for HDTV in Europe are in progress. This work is not intended to result in a recommendation for a single standard for HDTV production. ( From TeleSatellite)
Pace has announced plans to make high definition compatible set-top boxes available to satellite and cable operators across Europe. The DS840 digital satellite box offers an embedded Irdeto conditional access system to allow viewers to subscribe to the services of Euro1080, the HD channel launched in 2004. ( From Wotsat & D.S. Details:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15751.html )
Platinum Update: The Platinum Channel is the name for the HDTV channel and will feature the programming previously discussed on Digital Spy. (Another LWT exclusive) See Here:- http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board…ad.php?t=159632
When SKY launches its HDTV service it will aim to have 7 HDTV Channels broadcasting in total. (Thanks Andyk22k)
bmsgharris found this for you to try:- www.hd-1.tv [/left]
D.S. reader ginga has found this interesting article:- www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin/shownews.php?id=7347
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Telewest are to launch a DVR, similar to SKY+ but with added functions like three tuners, two decoders, and capabilities to display high definition content as it becomes available. Full Story:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18604.html
According to the Daily Mail NTL and Telewest are reportedly just weeks away from launching video-on-demand (VOD) services., the cable groups plan to launch in two cities before rolling out full services. NTL is said to be ready to launch in Glasgow while Telewest will launch its VOD trial in Bristol next week. The two groups - which are expected to announce merger plans later this year are said to be working in tandem on the VOD plans. From:- http://www.dtg.org.uk
Also this may be of interest:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds17933.html
Telewest has announced new commercial terms with Channel 4, Eurosport, TV Travel Shop, The Community Channel and Teachers TV. The cable company confirmed it will carry Channel 4's new venture More 4 when it becomes available, plus Teachers TV, a new channel from the Department for Education and Skills, which launches in February. Terms have also been renewed with Channel 4 for the continued carriage of E4 and FilmFour, in addition to new agreements with Eurosport for British Eurosport and new channel Eurosport 2 (formerly Eurosport News), launching on 10 January. Finally, new terms for TV Travel Shop and The Community Channel have been agreed, meaning they will continue to be available to all of the company's one million digital TV customers. Telewest has recently failed to reach agreement with a number of channels that are no longer carried on the network.
Telewest has agreed new carriage deals with Channel 4, Eurosport, TVTS, Community Channel and Teachers TV.
Details:- www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18176.html
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Other Stuff
A full line-up of SKY’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
A full line-up of SKY’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
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Audio descriptive programmes for ITV1(London) and Channel 4
Are available to all Sky subscribers on 963 and 964
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pr…scription.shtml
Are available to all Sky subscribers on 963 and 964
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pr…scription.shtml
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Get a free Satellite Locator poster here:-
www.globecast.com/
www.globecast.com/
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If you are into DTT as well as Digisat you might find this interesting.
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html
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Racing UK is adding a text service to its digital TV channel, featuring the latest racing news from The Press Association, race data and betting information. (From Lovelacemedia)
i cant find it any were. Please help me.
Its still on 11.623 H, 275.00, 2,3. Well it is for me.
This now seems to be no longer available, anyone any ideas!
its gone from that frequencie. But i cant see it listed in there list.
"TWC Reloaded programming to be re-scheduled
Jan 28, 2005 09:42 PM
TWC have announced that it will be re-scheduling the re-mixed TWC Wrestling output on the Reloaded Channel, broadcast on EPG 428.
The business has been approached by a number of potential partners seeking to re-programme and develop the slot. For the immediate future output has been reduced to a minimum level whilst a decision is taken over the content for the slot.
Currently TWC Reloaded is providing a second chance to watch programmes from its sister station The Wrestling Channel (TWC).
Any changes to to TWC Reloaded will not effect output on the main Channel, The Wrestling Channel, on EPG 427 where content will remain focused on Wrestling."
Soounds like its someone looking for a quick route onto the epg to me.
I had the same problem earlier, I solved the problem by storing it again, working ok now.
Well apart from Teachers TV and Smooth FM testing, things are a bit quiet at the moment, a bit suprised we haven't had anything new pop up yet.
This is now testing, looks like its for another channel called Chat Box, another version of Chat Box? Gay Chat Box maybe?
Dear David
I apologise for not replying to your email until now.
Please be aware that the Crime & Investigation Network has only just
launched here in Australia on the 1st January, 2005 and we were the
first country in the world to premiere this channel.
I believe that BSKYB are considering launching this channel. A date has
not been decided on at this point, however it is likely to be sometime
at the end of 2005.
I have added your details to the channel's viewer database so that you
can receive up coming information about programming and general channel
news. Please let me know if you'd prefer not to receive this
information.
Crime & Investigation Network
The channel is also listed on Ofcom here:http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/1060.htm
For more info on the channel: http://www.citv.com.au
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GBTV has changed its name to Sound TV (www.soundtv.co.uk) and is due to launch in
"Late February"
as for Aussie Gold, no word yet,but there are some blank place holders on the satellites so you never know!
Full story www.media 24/7.co.uk