Posted 31st January 2011 by Paul
Several changes to the Sky lineup will be taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 1st February.
Sky customers will find Living, Living HD, Living ROI, Living +1, Livingit, Livingit +1, Challenge and Challenge +1 off-air between approximately 2am and 4am. Sky advise “during this period, there will be brief outages and you will see a placeholder banner advising you that no programmes are being broadcast. You do not need to adjust your TV set or Sky box”. Virgin Media customers should be unaffected.
Channel One will cease broadcasting permanently at 6am on all TV platforms including Sky and Virgin Media (Channel One +1 will end an hour later at 7am). Channel One on Freeview will be replaced with Challenge.
All of the Living channels will be rebranded as Sky Living (Sky Living, Sky Livingit, etc).
Sky advise “HD customers will notice that some HD channels now have the same channel numbers as their standard definition counterparts”.
Sky Atlantic will launch at 9pm on Sky channel 108. A special pre-launch show advertising the launch of Sky Atlantic will air 8pm-9pm on Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Sky 2, Living, Living it, Living Loves, Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2.
Click here for the official “timeline of changes” page at Sky.com.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), challenge, challenge +1, channel one, channel one +1, hd, living, living +1, living hd, living tv group, livingit, livingit +1, Satellite (Sky Digital), sky atlantic, sky living, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 26th January 2011 by Paul
Sky are running another Free Weekend Pass event on Sky3 from Friday 11th February through to close of play on Sunday 13th February.
During this time Sky3 will air a selection of programmes from other channels to give people a taster of what’s on offer on Sky.
Programmes will include An Idiot Abroad & Got To Dance from Sky1, and 30 Rock & The Office from Comedy Central.
For the full schedules click here for Friday 11th February and click here for Saturday 12th February & Sunday 13th February.
The Free Weekend Pass will be available to all Freeview, Sky and cable viewers.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), free weekend pass, Satellite (Sky Digital), sky3, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 26th January 2011 by Paul
Challenge will be on Freeview channel 46 when it arrives on the 1st February.
Channel One will close down on Freeview channel 20 the night before.
Tags: challenge, channel one, living tv group, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 26th January 2011 by Paul
Sky3 and Sky3 +1 will rebrand as Pick TV and Pick TV +1 on the 28th February.
Programming is likely to remain the same as Sky3′s current lineup.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), pick tv, pick tv +1, Satellite (Sky Digital), sky3, sky3 +1, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 26th January 2011 by Paul
Five will rebrand as Channel 5 on the 14th February.
It’s been referred to as Channel 5 in newspapers for a while now, but the on-screen rebrand will finally take place next month.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), channel 5, five, Satellite (Sky Digital), Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 26th January 2011 by Paul
The main MTV channel will be moving from the music section of the Sky EPG (channel 350) to the entertainment section (channel 126) on the 1st February.
This is part of other channel number changes coming up on Sky in February.
A new music-only channel called MTV Music will launch on the 1st February on MTV’s current slot (channel 350). The official website for MTV Music can be found at www.mtv.co.uk/music. MTV Music will replace MTV Shows, which closes down on the same day.
Tags: mtv, mtv music, mtv shows, Satellite (Sky Digital)
Posted 15th January 2011 by Paul
Channel One’s official website confirms the channel will cease broadcasting on the 31st January.
As it was only rebranded from Virgin 1 to Channel One on the 3rd September 2010 this makes it one of the shortest UK television brands in history.
Sky have decided to close the channel – part of the Living TV Group which they bought from Virgin Media – to concentrate on Sky-branded channels including the soon-to-launch Sky Atlantic and the soon-to-be-rebranded Sky Living.
Challenge (another Sky-owned channel) will take Channel One’s place on Freeview.
Tags: Cable (Virgin Media), challenge, channel one, living tv group, Satellite (Sky Digital), Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
