Posted August 28th, 2009 by Paul
Babestation has launched on channel 42. You may need to rescan your Freeview box to pick it up. It’s on air 1am to 6am daily. Also, SmileTV3 has launched on channel 37, which airs midnight to 8am daily. Other changes from earlier this week include Big Deal moving to channel 32 (10pm to 5am daily), SmileTV1 closing, new Teletext text service Mobilizer launching on channel 109 and Virgin1 +1 reducing their hours to 6pm to 1am.
Tags: babestation, big deal, Mobilizer, smile tv, smiletv1, smiletv3, teletext, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV), virgin1, virgin1 +1
Posted August 28th, 2009 by Paul
Price-Drop TV has relaunched on channel 43 as expected. You may need to rescan your Freeview box to pick it up. It’s on air 8am to midnight every day.
Tags: price drop tv, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted August 25th, 2009 by Paul
Price-Drop TV is coming back to Freeview. It has been announced on Bid TV that Price-Drop TV will return to Freeview on channel 43 soon. Price-Drop TV was removed from Freeview to make way for Virgin 1 to go 24 hours, but it’s thought there is now some space on the Russia Today / Big Deal stream.
Update: It’s been revealed it will be back on Freeview from the 27th August.
Tags: price drop tv, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted August 13th, 2009 by Paul
A “coming soon” placeholder has appeared for Living HD on channel 110 – the channel is thought to be launching some time in the next few weeks. As a result of Living HD being on channel 110, the standard definition version of Living has moved to channel 109.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), hd, living, living hd
Posted August 10th, 2009 by Paul
Racing UK will be changing from an XL TV package channel to a standalone premium channel from Monday 17th August. Racing UK will cost £20 per month as a standalone channel. The move comes because of Setanta Sports, which went into administration earlier this year.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), racing uk
Posted August 6th, 2009 by Paul
Quest – the new channel from Discovery – will finally be launching on Freeview after the initial May 2009 launch was pulled merely minutes before it was due to start broadcasts.
The official Quest website says it’s coming to Freeview this autumn. Discovery have confirmed to Broadcast Now that the channel will launch on the 30th September.
The original launch was delayed because of a “number of commercial factors” – let’s see if this new September launch will go according to plan.
Tags: discovery, quest, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted August 4th, 2009 by Paul
Arsenal TV (channel 542) closed down today on Virgin Media and Sky, due to the fallout of Setanta Sports going in to administration in the UK. Arsenal TV may relaunch at a later date.
Tags: arsenal tv, Cable (Virgin Media)
Posted August 3rd, 2009 by Paul
The new UK version of ESPN has now appeared on channel 529, ESPN HD has appeared on channel 530 (available to V+ customers), ESPN America has moved to channel 531 (this will continue to broadcast in the UK despite earlier rumours that it would cease broadcasting when ESPN UK launched) and ESPN Classic has appeared on channel 533.
The new channels launch today, and all ESPN channels will be available free for all XL TV customers, like the Setanta Sports channels used to be. If you are on the M TV or L TV package you can subscribe to ESPN and ESPN HD for £8 per month if you already subscribe to any combination of the Sky Sports channels or £10 a month if you don’t. ESPN and ESPN HD are free for all Virgin TV customers throughout August.
You may need to restart your set top box to pick up the channel changes (turn the box off at the plug socket for 30 seconds then switch it back on again).
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), espn, espn america, espn classic, espn hd, hd
