UKTV channel changes today
Posted 7th October 2008 by PaulThe changes to the UKTV channel lineup have taken place today.
Virgin TV: Watch is available on channel 124, Watch +1 is on channel 125, GOLD (the new name for UKTV Gold) on channel 126 and GOLD +1 is available on channel 127. Watch (and Watch +1) is only available in the XL package. Dave has moved to channel 128 and Dave +1 has moved to channel 129. Alibi (the new name for UKTV Drama) is on channel 130 and Alibi +1 is on channel 131. UKTV History +1 (from channel 204) and UKTV Documentary +1 (from channel 209) are both no longer available on Virgin TV.
Top Up TV: UKTV Gold is now broadcasting the new GOLD.
Post updated 8th October.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), Top Up TV, uktv
Filed under:Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
5 Responses to “UKTV channel changes today”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Am I correct in saying that Watch will only be available to Virgin Media XL customers?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Yes, Watch is on the XL package.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/sorter/channels_full.html
According to that page though, it says Watch +1 is available on the L package, but I’m not sure how true that is.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Both Watch and Watch +1 are now definitely on the XL package only (the http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/sorter/channels_full.html has been changed).
October 14th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Why is UKTV History+1 no longer available?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
It was removed to allow the new Watch channel to launch (that is the rumoured reason anyway).
This could be down to space issues on the Virgin TV platform or it could just be because their UKTV contract only allows them to carry a certain number of UKTV channels.
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