Posted September 26th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
Tags: Freeview, national retune, Top Up TV, top up tv anytime
Posted September 26th, 2009 by Paul
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.
Tags: living hd, Virgin Media
Posted September 21st, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
Tags: Freeview, national retune
Posted September 18th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
Tags: Freeview, itv1, itv1 +1, Virgin Media
Posted September 16th, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
Tags: cbs, cbs uk, chello zone, chellomedia, Virgin Media, zone, zone horror, zone reality, zone romantica, zone thriller
Posted September 7th, 2009 by Paul
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.
Tags: disney xd, disney xd +1, jetix, jetix +1, Virgin Media
Posted September 2nd, 2009 by Paul
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 [...]
Tags: itv1, itv1 +1, Virgin Media