Despite testing on Eurobird at the weekend, arts channel Performance will not be making a launch on Sky Digital.

Bob Lynton, Performance General Manager, exclusively told Digital Spy: "Performance has no current plans to broadcast on DTH satellite to the UK. If Performance has been on satellite for a brief period, it has been due to a technical error. We are investigating the cause, in order to stop it."

The station is available 24 hours a day to Active Digital and NTL Digital customers, and in some analogue cable homes.