UKTV History to rebrand as Yesterday

The big UKTV rebranding machine continues to roll. It was announced this week UKTV History will be rebranded as Yesterday in early 2009. Early next year will also see Blighty (currently UKTV People) and Eden (currently UKTV Documentary) coming to our screens. The full range of UKTV channels will therefore be the following by early [...]

Tags:

Filed under:Freeview, Virgin Media

Sky channels now broadcasting

Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky 3, Sky Real Lives, Sky Real Lives 2, Sky Arts, Sky Arts 2, Sky Sports News and Sky News all started broadcasting on Virgin TV today as planned. Placeholders appeared a few days ago advertising they were coming back today. The channels launched on Virgin TV at approx 6am this [...]

Tags: ,

Filed under:Virgin Media

Sky channels appear on EPG

The Sky channels have been added to the Virgin TV EPG in preparation for their Virgin Media relaunch on Thursday. The channels at the moment are just placeholders and are not broadcasting anything on Virgin until Thursday. Virgin Central has moved to channel 118, Virgin 1 has moved to channel 119, Virgin1 +1 has moved [...]

Tags: ,

Filed under:Virgin Media

Eurosport removed from Top Up TV lineup

One of Top Up TV’s remaining linear pay channels – Eurosport – has been removed from the service. The channel is no longer available on DTT. It is rumoured though that this is only temporary until later this month when it’s thought it might change it’s timeslot to broadcast for longer hours in the daytime. [...]

Tags: ,

Filed under:Top Up TV

Mojo to be removed on 30th November

Mojo will close down on the 30th November on all platforms – including Freeview. The radio station launched in 2003 but Bauer have now decided to shut it down and concentrate on its other radio stations instead. The closure of Mojo will open up room for a new radio station to possibly launch on Freeview. [...]

Tags: , ,

Filed under:Freeview

Freeview changes this week

In some areas Teletext On 4 has been renamed as 1-2-1 Dating but is currently blank, and the Clyde1 radio station has been removed. Clyde1 was only meant to be a temporary replacement radio station on Freeview when 3C closed down, so this isn’t much of a surprise. Also, on some boxes now, you might [...]

Tags: , , , , ,

Filed under:Freeview

Sky basics to return on the 13th November

Excellent – but unexpected – news that’s just been announced today… the Sky basics are coming back to Virgin TV next Thursday after having been off the platform since the much talked-about removal of the channels back in February/March 2007. This means Virgin TV customers will once again be able to enjoy Sky 1, Sky [...]

Tags: ,

Filed under:Virgin Media