[Radio Ruderham]

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL !

Next Update; Thursday / Friday

ALL CHANNELS HAVE SYMBOL RATE OF 27.5 AND AN F.E.C. OF 2/3. EXCEPT WHERE LISTED.

Big news this week is that Two new Transponders (Txp’s) have been opened on Eurobird1 for Digibox veiwers

C3 11307 V.and C4 11343 V both carrying duplicates of other Txp’s. (From Flysat)

I. D.…….………..Freq; ………..……..INFO

52107……………..11264 H S.R.22000 fec 2/3 Bars & Tone
7450………………11.973 V Showing Zee Gujarati (Thanks; Ian Cleverly)
51019……………..11.662 H For Inspiration (Thanks; Ian Cleverly)
9604………………10.744 H SR:22.000 FEC:5/6 Showing RTE TWO (Thanks Otis)
9339………………11.508 H Blocked.
53510……………..11.390 V Showing Geo TV
50686……………..11.585 H No Signal present.
51117……………..11.681 V No Signal present.
1430………………12.304 H No Signal present

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{Blank}………… ..12.265 H with 'Programme is not available' (Thanks Craigsteele2001)
7521….........………12.441 H “William Road” Bars & Tone (not “seen”, if not stored already)
2gbstp…........……..11.662 H With technical fault
cet…………………12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.

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Radio Channels

A few of bits of Radio News :-

 The BBC is commissioning three new DAB-enabled transmitters in Northern Ireland. The first two will come on stream in late spring and the third will follow in the summer.(From the Radio Academy)

 The new Radio Station due to launch on April 9th is to be called Radio Tatras International. It will be broadcasting from Slovakia to over 40 million people on AM/FM in central Europe, to the remainder of Europe via satellite, and around the world on the internet. No details of frequencies have been announced so far, but there is a tentative schedule online. One of the Directors of RTI is Eric Wiltsher, who will be bringing his Media Zoo programme to the station. RTI gives its address as 1 Northumberland Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5BW, United Kingdom. E-mail: info@rti.fm. (From Media Network)

 Chrysalis Group today announced it was considering making "a formal offer" for Guardian Media Group's radio assets, which include the recently renamed Jazz FM in London, after an informal offer had been rebuffed.(From:- http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/sto...442524,00.html )

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These From swine1 in our “Coming Soon Section”…...


29th March
Geo
Zee Gujarati (was Alpha Gujarati)

4th April
INSP

11th April
Life TV +2

18th April
Fashion TV (Return)
TG4 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE1 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE2 (in Northern Ireland)

25th April
Bad Movies
Matinee Movies
Vegas 24/7
Travel Channel 3

May 12th
Discovery Home & Leisure Re-brand to Real Time

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Newsie Bits

1. ZEE TV is set to become the biggest Asian TV network in the UK by adding a fifth entertainment channel, to its current network called Zee Gujarati which is now testing Media 24/7 are now saying this channel will launch on Wednesday March 30th

2. BBC launched its new interactive service this week, just press the red button on any BBC Channel See http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=202645

3. The analogue Switch off is getting nearer, a full transcript of the Westminster Debate is available Here:- http://www.publications.parliament.u...50315h03_head0

4. Sit-up TV is launching a third shopping channel on Sky Digital and ntl.Speed Auction TV will stage auctions lasting for a maximum of four minutes, which the broadcaster hopes will attract a younger audience than sister channels bid TV and price-drop TV. Sit-up have disclosed plans to launch a Bad Movies channel, offering some of the worst Hollywood has to offer when it launches on the Sky platform from this spring. Sit-Up is investing £5m in the channel and a second new channel offering, Matinee. From:- www.dtg.org

5. Here We Go Again! Sky software update to take place commencing March 14th till April 1st. catch up with the latest goings on Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds19642.html

6. Music Choice Channels are moving to Channels 498 & 499 respectively this Thursday March 31stSee this for details:- www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds19906.html

7. Steve Bennett CEO of the Factory Outlet group of companies has announced the creation of a Dedicated Diamond Channel that will launch between 4-8 weeks. (From:- Shopping telly.com)

8. Bridges TV, An American Muslim lifestyle station are looking into launching on SKY in March/April. Details:- http://www.bridgestv.co.uk

9. The UK television licence fee (which is paid exclusively the BBC) is to increase this year. From April 1, a colour license will rise by £5.50 to £126.50, and a black and white licence by £1.50 to £42.

10. India's public broadcaster Doordarshan is planning a TV channel for people of Indian descent living in Britain, the Central Chronicle has reported. India's broadcasting corporation Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, which oversees Doordarshan, KS Sarma said, "If all goes well, the new British channel will take off in around three months' time”.

11. Ofcom's proposed analogue switch off timetable has BorderTV, Westcountry and HTV Wales regions completing switchover to digital in 2008, with all other regions completing the transition by the end of 2012.

12. Hot on the heels of Ofcom's digital switchover timetable being published, consumer electronics giant Sony has announced all its television receivers larger than 26 inches will be digital-only. Sony said consumers were continuing to purchase analogue TV sets, and they are buying them at twice the rate of any digital adapters needed to convert them.

13. D.S. Reader David McH tells of an email he received from Crime & Investigation Network in Australia. They say that they had launched in Australia on the 1st January, 2005 and were the first country in the world to premiere the channel. They also believe that BSKYB are considering launching this channel. A date has not been decided on at this point, however it is likely to be sometime at the end of 2005. More on the Channel :- www.citv.com.au

14. More 4 the digital free-to-air factual channel is being reported in various parts of the Media press that it is going to launch sometime in October this year, not to compete with, but augment the main C4 channel, it will have a programming budget of £30million.

15. Channel 4 is reportedly considering moving entertainment subscription channel E4 onto the free-to-air Freeview platform. E4 is committed to Sky until 2008 and also has carriage deals with cable operators NTL and Telewest, but is said to be looking at moving E4 perhaps as early autumn. By that time it hopes Freeview will be big enough to generate sufficient advertising revenues to sustain the channel. Broadcast magazine

16. ITV is planning to launch ITV4, to add to its existing portfolio of ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3.

17. Sky is planning a new Sky One spin-off channel.


18. Al-Jazeera intends to launch a new English language news channel by the end of this year.

19. India's religious channel Aastha TV is looking at launching in the UK later this year. Aastha broadcasts programming in Hindi, Gujarati and English. This year, the channel has plans to air locally originated programming as well. (From: www.media247.co.uk/skydigital )

20. VC; The company behind the two channels, ( Amore & Horror Channel) is planning to launch at least one other new network, no further.details about the third service are known. Amore, may not now start till later this year and will be a stand alone service. (from TELE-satellite)

21. That TV http://www.thattv.co.uk website has now been updated stating that the channel will be launching later this year. (Thanks Lunar)

22. H2o TV to launch summer 2005 .Details:- www.h2o.tv

23. Technology TV is coming in October. For Full details:- http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/b...technology.html and licensing details:-http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/806.htm (Thanks OTIS)

24. Rapture TV is still hoping to return to UK screens. Complete with new programmes. (From :- http://news.rapturetv.com)

25. Channel East is set to relaunch and make a return to Sky Digital.

26. News channel Aaj Tak plans to launch soon.

27. Fuel launch seems to have been put back to “the Spring” whenever that is, according to Media 24/7. I also found an American web-site www.fuel.tv

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HiDef TV – HDTV SECTION

 Sony has revealed that their 2004 range of "HD Capable" large screen LCD and plasma TV displays - which feature analogue component inputs instead of the "HD Ready" HDMI/HDCP inputs - will be able to be used with Sky's high definition television service when it launches. Press release::- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds19787.html

 British Sky Broadcasting has appointed Thomson as the initial manufacturer of the set-top box for its forthcoming High Definition Televisionservice and confirmed that it is on track to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin, BSkyB's Chief Operating Officer, Richard Freudenstein, revealed that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar Personal Video Recorder capability to the existing Sky+ box. Freudenstein said that offering PVR capability as a standard in the HDTV arena will ensure that Sky+'s 6000,000 subscribers would continue to enjoy control and flexibility in association with the highest-quality programming. From :- Advanced Television .com

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This Article From:- medianetwork.blogspot.com

Watch FTA HiDefTV albeit in German,German TV company ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion and satellite provider SES Astra have announced that they will offer free-to-air High-Definition-Television (HDTV) simulcasts of ProSieben (PRO7) blockbuster movies. The first highlight was on March 13th 2005 with "Spider Man", one of the most successful movies ever made. In parallel to the Free-TV premiere in conventional standard definition, this fast, action-packed cinema version of the Marvel Comic classic was receivable in superior high-definition picture quality via ASTRA 1F.
At 10 pm on Saturday, March 26th, viewers can then enjoy the premiere of David Fincher's "Panic Room". This sinister thriller will again be broadcast in high-definition. Last but not least "Der Anschlag", "Men in Black II" and the successful BBC documentary "Supervolcano", three further ProSieben highlights, will be aired in HD in April 2005 via ASTRA Transponder No. 16 (11.4355 GHz; vertical polarization). The visual experience will be completed by Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, providing viewers with true cinema quality in the living room. Technically speaking, the blockbusters and programme highlights will be simulcast in parallel to the regular SD signal, the movies being played out HDCAM SR (1080i/50 Hz) and delivered to an MPEG-2 HD encoder with a data rate of some 1.4 gigabits/s. The Digital Playout Center (DPC), based in Unterföhring, Germany, is responsible for the re-multiplexing, the modulation and uplink of the HD signal and ensures that the signal is DVB-conform. The symbol rate is 22MS/s QPSK.
Wolfgang Elsässer, Managing Director of SES Astra in Germany: "HDTV has been gaining momentum in Germany and simulcasts like these in cooperation with a leading Free-TV operator like ProSiebenSat1 stimulate consumer interest and market demand. HD will provide an additional incentive to go digital. According to a recent study by Euroconsult, some 14 million households in Germany will have HDTV-ready displays by 2010."
Technical details:
ASTRA 1F
Transponder 16
Frequency : 11.4355 GHz
Polarization: vertical
Symbol rate: 22 MS/s QPSK
FEC: 5/6
Network ID: 0x0085
Original Network ID: 0x0085
Transport StreamID: 0x0006
Service ID: 0x0292
PMT PID: 0x0060
Video PID: 0x00FF 1920x1080i, 50Hz
PCR PID: 0x00FF
Audio PID: 0x0103 DolbyDigital
Service Name: ProSieben HD
Service Provider: ProSiebenSat1

 The European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association has announced a standard for HD Ready labeling of TVs, plasma screens and other HD displays. "The “HD ready” label is fully supported by Europe’s national broadcasters. More info :- www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18570.html

 Sony, has forecast that 20m European households will have high definition TV (HDTV) sets by 2008. HDTV set prices – currently at £2,000 – would continue to fall, making them more of an attractive proposition to the mass consumer market. “Once you show HDTV people are hooked, says Chris Deering, Sony’s European CEO. (From Digital TV Group)

 European HDTV pioneer Euro1080 is to launch a second service, HD-2, in June 2005, with the emphasis on pay-per-event. Gabriel Fehervari, General Manager of Euro1080 also revealed that the operator would be using MPEG-4 encoding from that time. In addition to Euro1080’s involvement with SES-Astra, Fehervari confirmed that he had secured distribution deals on alternative satellites such as Sirius, Hellas Sat and Turksat, as well as some 20 cable networks. (From Advanced Television.com & Colin Mann in London)

 Toshiba has won a major victory in the battle to determine the standard for next-generation DVD’s with the endorsement by four Hollywood studios of its High Definition-DVD format. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers their supported the HD-DVD format advocated by Toshiba and NEC. Universal Pictures said it would come out with titles in the format during the 2005 holiday season while Paramount committed to bringing content out on HD-DVD in 2006. The support of the Hollywood studios gives a strong boost to the Toshiba camp, which is competing with a group led by Sony to standardise the next generation of optical recording technology. Sony is leading a group of consumer electronics and PC manufacturers promoting the rival Blu-ray Disc format.

 The EBU Technical Committee has recommended that Emission standards for HDTV should be based on progressive scanning: 720p/50 is currently the optimum solution, but 1080p/50 is an attractive option for the longer term. Although there are strong technical arguments in favour of progressive scanning for emission, the EBU Technical Committee recognises that some broadcasters might wish to broadcast 1080I-programme material. As consumer electronics equipment (e.g. set-top boxes and displays) will accept both 720p and 1080I formats, broadcasters will be able to select either of these formats * even on a programme-by-programme basis. Taking into account that production and emission standards do not need to be identical, further EBU studies on Production standards for HDTV in Europe are in progress. This work is not intended to result in a recommendation for a single standard for HDTV production. ( From TeleSatellite)

 Pace has announced plans to make high definition compatible set-top boxes available to satellite and cable operators across Europe. The DS840 digital satellite box offers an embedded Irdeto conditional access system to allow viewers to subscribe to the services of Euro1080, the HD channel launched in 2004. ( From Wotsat & D.S. Details:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15751.html )

 When SKY launches its HDTV service it aims to have 7 HDTV Channels broadcasting in total. (Thanks Andyk22k)

 bmsgharris found this for you to try:- www.hd-1.tv

 D.S. reader ginga has found this interesting article:- http://www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-...ws.php?id=7347

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 SMS text messages can now be sent and received using a Telewest landline. Sending a message over the Telewest network will cost 10p (7p if the subscriber is on the Talk Mobile package) and will require the subscriber to have the Caller Display feature on their phone line, in addition to having a text-enabled phone. Incoming texts are free - and for those with a standard phone, it will be read out by an automated voice instead of being displayed on a text-enabled phone's screen.

 European news channel EuroNews is allowing viewers watching through Telewest Broadband cable in the UK to choose which language they receive the broadcast via interactive TV. (From C21Media)

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Other Stuff
A full line-up of SKY’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
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Audio description in programmes for ITV1(London) and Channel 4
Are available to all Sky subscribers on 963 and 964
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pr…scription.shtml

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Get a free Satellite Locator poster here:-
www.globecast.com/
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If you are into DTT as well as Digisat you might find this interesting.
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html

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If you are fed up constantly having to phone an 0870 or similar to Sky’s Subscriber Centre and you have the option of being able to phone any national number in your phone bundle in effect “Free” (Telewest and BT Have similar call charges). Then Lakhvinder Baddhan over at www.media247.co.uk/skydigital has numbers that fall within your bundle and won’t cost you any more than you already pay
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[Scalper Jack]

Coming soon... FMTV - Fashion Music TV
http://www.fashionmusic.tv/

[Colm80]

818 Alpha ETC Punjabi had a slight name change
to Zee ETC Punjabi

[delbhoy]

Originally Posted by Colm80

818 Alpha ETC Punjabi had a slight name change
to Zee ETC Punjabi

just in time for zee gujarati launching on wednesday

[mclarenf1]

not trying to be rude, but ive been trying to read this but its like chinese, can somebody explain what this means?

2gbstp…........……..11.662 H With technical fault
cet…………………12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.

huh

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by mclarenf1

not trying to be rude, but ive been trying to read this but its like chinese, can somebody explain what this means?

2gbstp…........……..11.662 H With technical fault
cet…………………12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.

huh

In a short answer, Pass.

2gbstp was originally for a christian channel that never launched,
dear knows about cet.
That's the way they are labeled as far as I can tell.

One of the guys will probably tell us different tomorrow
when they all come back from their Bank holiday.
Just wait and see .

[Digi Man]

cet…………………12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.

Isn't this for interactive stuff?


Sorry to go a bit off topic, but has anyone been on the ofcom site lately, have they made changes to it?, I am having trouble finding the pages I often visit?

[Analoguesat]

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/main.htm
is probably the page you are looking for.

[Digi Man]

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/main.htm
is probably the page you are looking for.

Analoguesat, you are the champ. Thats the one I was looking for.

Glad you could find it.

[Analoguesat]

Now put it in your favourites before you lose it again!!

[Digi Man]

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

Now put it in your favourites before you lose it again!!

Yes its now in my favourites, thanks once again.

Anyway back on topic, what have we got launching this week-

838 Geo TV.
839 Zee Gujarati.

These would be my guesses for the EPG numbers.

[daniel99]

I think cet stands for Central Eire Test but i'm just gussing.

[Radio Ruderham]

ZEE TV is set to become the biggest Asian TV network in the UK by adding a fifth entertainment channel, to its current network called Zee Gujarati which is now testing Media 24/7 are now saying this channel will launch on Wednesday March 30th

Well it looks like Media 24/7 have got it right.
Till tomorrow then.

[Ian Cleverly]

11.342V or 11.488V New Labels "50108" and "50109"

[Digi Man]

Originally Posted by Ian Cleverly

11.342V or 11.488V New Labels "50108" and "50109"

Just going on where these are placed, in the middle of the Simply Shopping channels. Could this mean two more Simply Channels are on there way?

[Ian Cleverly]

11.546H - "AvaTest" showing AVAGO (Ch. 181) New Interactive possibilites perhaps?

[Radio Ruderham]

OK!,
Further to Ian Cleverly & Digi Man's contributions,

Here is what I found tonight;

Full List Txp's first;
11.307 V...50108 & 50109,
11.343 V... As above (Ian Cleverly)
11.488 V... As above (Ian Cleverly)
11.546 H... Ava test (Ian Cleverly)
12.031 H... Q_I

[sky sports stuff]

12.109 H...SP1 & SP3
12.148 H...SP Xtra
12.265 H... SP2

[Also]
12.441 V DEV-STRM-3 & DEV-STRM-4 [ for bbc i ]

[Otis]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

OK!,
Further to Ian Cleverly & Digi Man's contributions,

[Also]
12.441 V DEV-STRM-3 & DEV-STRM-4 [ for bbc i ]

They've been there for as long as there has been BBCi not "new" at all ...

Indeed there is actually DEV-STRM-0 to DEV-STRM-6.

They opearte in parrallel to the seven main streams on the same transponder.

[Digi Man]

Isn't anyone going to mention that Geo UK has launched on EPG 838 ( I thought it would ).

Still waiting for Zee Gujarati to launch though. Will it launch later today?

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

12.031 H... Q_I

[sky sports stuff]

12.109 H...SP1 & SP3
12.148 H...SP Xtra
12.265 H... SP2

Q_I is for QVC Active

The Sky Sports one are also data channels and have been around for quite a while

How long has 'Radio' been on 934? Did it appear when the On Air channel appeared?

[D. Sky D.]

Originally Posted by Anthony Haines.

How long has 'Radio' been on 934? Did it appear when the On Air channel appeared?

The name listed in the EPG for channel number 934 was changed from FCUK FM to Radio on February 21st 2005.

On Air was added to 938 in the EPG on November 15th 2004.

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by Otis

They've been there for as long as there has been BBCi not "new" at all ...

Indeed there is actually DEV-STRM-0 to DEV-STRM-6.

They opearte in parrallel to the seven main streams on the same transponder.

Silly question,
Why is it only now that I have been able to "see" them with my digibox?


I have them listed for Thursdays update for those and such as those!

On a totally different note:- Does anyone like the new top of the hour Countdown sequence on BBC News 24??

[Abrardh1]

Zee Gujerati launched on Sky EPG Number 839.

[Digi Man]

Originally Posted by Abrardh1

Zee Gujerati launched on Sky EPG Number 839.

At the moment its still testing under the label 7450.