Further details for 30th Sept retune

It was confirmed earlier this month where channels will be moving to when the national retune takes place on the 30th September, but some channels were absent from the announcement – the Top Up TV download channels.
It’s been confirmed Top Up TV Anytime 1-4 will be moving from channel 38-41 to channel 307-310. Read the [...]

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Filed under:Freeview, Top Up TV

Living HD to launch 6th October

It has been announced that Living HD will launch on the 6th October. The announcement has been made on the promo video on Living HD’s placeholder channel – channel 110. Living HD will be available to all XL V+ customers for free.

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Filed under:Virgin Media

National retune coming 30th September

There will be a national Freeview retune on the 30th September – your set top box will need to be fully rescanned in order to keep all your channels. The retune is necessary because of upgrades to the Freeview platform.
You will need to rescan at midday on the 30th September to ensure your viewing is [...]

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ITV1 +1 launch delayed until further notice

Digital Spy reports ITV1’s timeshift channel +1 will not launch on the 1st October as previously announced. They say it’s been delayed “until further notice” probably because of “concerns over the Contract Rights Renewal mechanism”. Click here for more details from Digital Spy. ITV1 +1 was rumoured to launching on Freeview as well as Virgin [...]

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Filed under:Freeview, Virgin Media

CBS to launch UK channels

American broadcaster CBS will be launching six channels in the UK. This will be the first time it has ever had channels in the UK – it usually just licenses programmes out to other channels. In a deal with Chellomedia, the six new CBS channels should launch on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat before the [...]

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Filed under:Virgin Media

Jetix becomes Disney XD

Jetix and Jetix +1 rebranded on the 31st August. The channels are now called Disney XD and Disney XD +1. Disney XD is available on channel 707 and Disney XD +1 is available on channel 708.

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Filed under:Virgin Media

ITV1 +1 to launch 1st October

ITV1 +1 – a one hour timeshifted version of ITV1 – will be launching on Virgin TV and Sky on the 1st October. The new channel will be on air 10.25am-7am daily – it will not air a timeshifted version of GMTV.
With regards to what region ITV1 +1 will be – Digital Spy reports “six [...]

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Filed under:Virgin Media