Posted 21st September 2011 by Paul
If you’ve been missing Challenge since yesterday afternoon you’ll need to rescan your Freeview box.
The channel moved multiplexes on Freeview which requires a retune for most Freeview receivers.
Viewers in Wales can now receive Challenge 24 hours a day.
Pick TV +1 is no longer available on Freeview due to these changes.
Tags: challenge, pick tv +1, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
Posted 15th August 2011 by Paul
Freeview customers in Wales will be able to watch Challenge 24 hours a day from the 15th September for the first time. Challenge has been available in other parts of the UK 24/7 since launch, but they never had the capacity in Wales to launch the channel fully from the outset.
Challenge’s official Facebook page confirmed the news.
Tags: challenge, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV)
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
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 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)
Posted 15th September 2010 by Paul
Bravo and Channel One will cease broadcasting on all platforms soon as Sky want to concentrate on their other channels.
Sky recently acquired Bravo, Virgin1, Living and the other channels in the Virgin Media TV group from Virgin Media. The group of channels is now known as the Living TV Group. Sky quickly renamed Virgin1 to Channel One as they didn’t buy the Virgin branding rights.
The Guardian reports “it was decided that Channel One [snip] was too similar to Sky3… BSkyB intends to “redeploy” the channels’ programming, with pay-TV shows moving to other Sky channels and free-to-air fare mostly moving to Sky3″.
Channel One will be replaced by Challenge on the Freeview platform.
Sky’s acquisition of the Virgin Media TV group of channels was cleared by The Office Of Fair Trading this week.
A precise date for the closure of Bravo and Channel One is yet to be announced.
Tags: bravo, Cable (Virgin Media), challenge, channel one, living, living tv group, Satellite (Sky Digital), sky, Terrestrial (Freeview and Top Up TV), virgin media tv, virgin1
