Saturday's changes:
10 internal test services added to the NIT of all remaining networks.
Hide flags changed for a couple of services but with no change for viewers.
1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight Changes:
The annual Free To View day for the anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster on Liverpool FC TV has ended.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight Changes:
On channel 551 Liverpool FC TV is having the annual Free To View day for the anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight Changes:
End of service placeholder services for HGTV & HGTV +1 removed after preserving recordings for 90 days.
FAST channel Eggheads removed.
End of the free to view period for Virgin TV Ultra HD.
1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Scotland was already down to 1 regional transport streams, now more London network areas will be. Something we will have to keep an eye on as tracking regional changes is complicated.
Freely wasn't supposed to have timeshift channels, Dave Ja Vu is a bit weird. The other Discovery channels are supposed to be coming to IP Freely but haven't indicated when.
Perhaps the local channel removals are part of a master plan to reduce the number of regional transport streams from 2 to 1.
Issuing new channel numbers in an active range, to the Channel Update slates, seems odd. They could have been given internal 4 digit numbers until they are needed again.
I don't know. Perhaps the "must carry" regulations have changed. That was dubious anyway as not all local channels in cabled areas were on Virgin. That or a big increase in carriage costs.
The blog has now been updated with changes for Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
The database to blog systems are still being updated so the New Services, End of Service Placeholders and SI Error pages will be updated this evening.
Some of the database to blog routines are being updated so the blog update has been postponed until later today.
Note that, for the removed local TV services, end of service status means that any recordings will be preserved for a short period.
Thursday's changes:
Pre-launch service Panjab TV has been completely removed without ever having made it to the NIT.
Channel numbers in the Sports section of the EPG have been rearranged.
Friday's changes:
All local TV services have been hidden from the EPG and placed into end of service status.
Overnight Changes:
Pre-launch configurations for 2 FAST channels (8 Out of 10 Cats and Pointless) have been updated.
1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight Changes:
Service removals for multiple end of service placeholders (closed MTV channels / POP / High Street TV) and also for FAST channel NextUp Live Comedy.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight Changes:
1 kids' channel with a promotional rebrand.
1 kids' channel reverting to its usual name following a promotional rebrand.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight changes:
The active hours of part-time channels have been adjusted for the start of British Summer Time.
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Overnight changes:
The Virgin TV Ultra HD channel (175 & 999) is now on a free to view period (March 28 to April 12).
Further details:
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
In rebrand news...
Virgin has actioned the temporary rebrand of Sky Cinema Hits to Sky Fun. (Having not actioned its previous rebrand to Middle Earth.)
So, it's hit and miss at the moment with rebrands being actioned seemingly on a whim.
Damien is back today so can start working on the Horizon data.
The addition of subscription code records to Panjab TV had an unsafe duplicate. Unsafe means it isn't an exact duplicate. In this case one record carries the Asian Mela pack code, the other record does not have any subscription codes. Hopefully, Virgin TV will sort this out before launch.
Friday's Sky Cinema rebrand may actually be a long term rebrand of Sky Cinema Select to Sky Adventure, so the temporary rebrands may not be back. One to watch.
Saturday's temporary rebrand hasn't been actioned by Virgin TV.
Sky Atlantic has had the PIN flag activated for out of hours watershed content.
As for the temporary rebrands...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKK2...
The blog has been updated with Wednesday to Friday's changes.
Other than those mentioned already, there are further changes to Panjab TV's pre-launch configuration.
And the return of temporary rebrands as Virgin TV has renamed a movie channel for a promotional rebrand.
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Wednesday's changes:
Panjab TV pre-launch configuration added to channel 839. Not yet added to any networks, not even those used for pre-launch configs.
Housekeeping changes to pre-launch FAST channels 8 Out of 10 Cats (250) and Pointless (251). It now appears that these will be available on the V6.
The blog will be updated on Friday.
We've had a few issues this week and have been without functioning email for much of it. A workaround is now in place.
We didn't find out about Wednesday's changes until today due to a bounced email. Sorry!
The blog has been updated with yesterday's changes as far as possible.
ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com
Horizon data has been checked for Sky Atlantic & On Demand Streaming. Ex-NTL regions still have to be checked (we don't get that information from the overnight analysis).
Yesterday's plans to get third party analysts to deal with the Horizon data fell by the wayside. Unfortunately they experienced a total failure of their email platform and had to refocus their efforts on providing a replacement service.
The analysis will still be done, it will just take longer.
Correction - On Demand Streaming (Ch 206) is NOT hidden from V6 devices, only legacy TiVos.
Sky Atlantic remains hidden from both.
Today's changes are summarised below. There are also some changes to hide flags for some regional channels.
Blog updates await Horizon data. Unfortunately Damien isn't available to analyse this at the moment so this will be referred to our third party analysts. The blog will be updated ASAP.