[Radio Ruderham]

Next Update; Thursday / Friday

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

I. D.…….………..Freq; ………..……..INFO

10075….…………10.758 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6. Blocked
10101….…………10.758 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6. Blocked
10165…………….10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6. Showing ITV1 North East. FTA (Thanks Otis)
51006..............11.662 H Showing Hollywood TV {at times) and Info. (Thanks Digi man)
1871………………12.382 H showing The Community Channel
3310………………10.729 V Showing Black level in 16:9
50108…………….11.307 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50108…………….11.488 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50109…………….11.307 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50109…………….11.488 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50181…………….11.307 V Showing Simply Shopping 638**
4164………………11.508 H Showing Fashion TV with Info
5719………………12.324 V Showing Boomerang (for +1?)
52567…………….11.426 V Showing The Adult Channel
52300…………….11.343 V Blocked
52345…………….11.343 V Half Red Colour bars (No Ident)
1840………………12.226 H showing Sky Mix (Thanks Ian Cleverly) (Sky’s new spin off channel? See item #14)
52107…………….11264 H S.R.22000 fec 2/3 Bars & Tone plus info (Life tv +2?)
9604………………10.744 H SR:22.000 FEC:5/6 Showing RTE (Thanks Otis)
9339………………11.508 H Blocked.
50686…………….11.585 H No Signal present.
51117…………….11.681 V No Signal present.
1430………………12.304 H No Signal present
2gbstp.......……11.662 H No Signal present

**50181…………(11.307 V) is also on 11.488 V showing duplicate of 52536 Showing Simply Shopping (638)

{Blank}………… .12.265 H with, 'Programme is not available' (Thanks Craigsteele2001)
7521….........……12.422 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
3020……………….12.422 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
cet…………………..12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.
There are plus one hour applications along with some for Cable added to 11.740 V
There are applications for E4 and Channels for Audio Described (I think) at 12.168 V.


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

Soon
Life TV +2 [Now Testing]

18th April
Fashion TV (Return) [Now Testing]
TG4 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE1 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE2 (in Northern Ireland)

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

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

September
Faze TV (See story in Newsie bits)

October
More4

Autumn
Sky EPG overhaul

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Newsie Bits

1. Sky's electronic programme guide (EPG) will get an overhaul. As the number of channels on the digital satellite platform has exploded, so too has the need to re-order and re-group them on the EPG. The 'old' EPG had 10 categories of programming in the main menu. The new EPG will re-group Sky's 480 channels—340 more than the number available when Sky Digital launched in 1998—over 16 categories, with new categories for lifestyle, religion, shopping, gaming and adult channels, and new separate categories for documentaries and radio stations. The new EPG will have two menu pages instead of one. According to Broadcast magazine. Some channels will have to be re-numbered. Broadcast said channel providers would be able to review which category they are allocated over the summer before the new EPG line-up is finally agreed by the end of the year. Broadcast quoted a Sky spokesman as saying: "These enhancements are designed to improve navigability for viewers and to assist Sky to meet continued demand for EPG slots. Better sign posting will help make it easier for viewers to find the programme and channels that they want to watch."
The EPG menu will have two new genres; Lifestyle & Culture along with Gaming & Dating.
The confirmed EPG menu will appear as follows:
1 All channels
2 Entertainment
3 Lifestyle & Culture
4 Movies
5 Sports
6 News
7 Documentaries
8 Kids
9 Music
0 More (next page)
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1 Radio
2 Shopping
3 Religion
4 International
5 Gaming & dating
6 Specialist
7 Adult
(From:- Broadcastnow.co.uk and DTG.)See also:- www.media247.co.uk/skydigita...ive_radio_3.php

2. Sky is beefing up the parental control facility on its EPG. Under the upgrade, which Sky says is the most significant enhancement to the facility since the launch of Sky Digital in 1998, parents will be able to restrict access to all channels, and remove listings from the EPG. The new parental controls will be available to all Sky and Sky Plus boxes by Summer 2005. The upgrade will not require any new equipment and will carried out by Sky for no additional charge. Sky says the new parental control features will be introduced in two phases:
Phase 1—Using the Sky remote control, parents will be able to restrict viewing to any digital satellite channel including free-to-air channels and un-rated programmes. They will be able to choose whether to restrict access at all times or to prevent viewing only after 8pm. To unlock access to a restricted channel, a household member will have to enter a unique four-digit PIN number using the Sky remote control.
Phase 2—For the first time, parents will be able to remove all listings for adult channels from the Sky Guide. To reinstate the adult channels to the Sky Guide, the four-digit PIN code is required. (From :- www.dtg.org , Also see these updates to the EPG :- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20466.html

3. Otis has noted that the in-vision ident for Motors on 413 is now saying "Motors TV UK"

4. D.S. reader, Tumble weed tells that Men & Motors is to close along with their Web Forum. See Here:- http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=205875

5. D.S Reader, Abrardh1 Tells us that NSAT not returning for a further 6 months

6. UKTV Drama available on Sky EPG 147 will soon begin broadcasting 24 hours a day. The channel currently is only on air between 9pm and 5am. The change takes place on Monday 30th May From:- http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital..._drama_set.php


7. 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

8. 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)

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

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. Channel 4's new factual station More4 will go live in October across all digital platforms, not to compete with, but augment the main C4 channel, it will have a programming budget of £30millions possibly increased to £57 millions

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, (Horror Channel & Amore) 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. Faze tv ( http://fazetv.co.uk/ ) a gay lifestyle channel is on the cards for a September Launch (From DTG & http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital...ifestyle_c.php

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

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

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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

 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 )

 NTL tests HDTV over ADSL2+ See story below in Cable Ends

 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.

 NTL tests HDTV over ADSL2+In a financial presentation, Britain's biggest cable operator confirmed that the trials of ADSL2+ had first started in February with a view to providing Internet access speeds of over 18Mbps downstream. The top tier of consumer broadband service currently available to NTL customers is 3Mbps downstream. Full article:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20194.html

 MGM's film channel is launching in Ireland later this month on the country's NTL cable network. The Irish debut takes MGM Channel into almost 120 territories worldwide, with 15 European countries among these. The MGM Channel will be included on NTL's digital basic package and will feature a range of titles from its parent's film catalogue. © 6 Apr 2005 C21 Media 2005

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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 etc; 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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[skyisthebest]

Ive seen a promotional advert on Discovery Channel about the relaunch of Discovery Home & Leisure to Discovery Real Time and it states that it will relaunch from May 7th and not May 12th.

[skyisthebest]

Not sure if this is a mistake or not on Digiguide, but it shows that UKTV Drama will start at 1pm from Sunday 1st May. Maybe this is the first step of it going 24 hrs later in May on the 30th?

[zoton2]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

51006..............11.662 H Showing Hollywood TV {at times) and Info. (Thanks Digi man)

Now it says is showing 'Showbiz' and not the same as hollywood tv because i checked!

[zoton2]

52345…………….11.343 V Half Red Colour bars (No Ident)

For me it says : Video lock error : Ident mode

[TV DUNIYA]

Vectone 4 U channel 831 has changed name to Vectone Punjab

[Colm80]

10165…………….10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6. Showing ITV1 now showing now and next info could this be ITV 4 on the way

[Lunar]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

50108…………….11.307 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50108…………….11.488 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50109…………….11.307 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50109…………….11.488 V Showing Technical fault (Thanks Ian Cleverly)

All now showing Sit-Up.TV testcards with tone
Screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/DSCI0181.jpg

Could these be Sit-Up's movie channels??


Also, while We're on the Sit-Up subject...
http://www.matinee-movies.tv
http://www.bad-movies.tv
are each displaying a .tv holding page at present and http://www.speed-auctions.tv still displays a page cannot be displayed error...

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by Colm80

10165…………….10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6. Showing ITV1 now showing now and next info could this be ITV 4 on the way

The now next info is Men & Motors (136)

[Radio Ruderham]

Edit: Don't Arsk it all went T**s up this afternoon

[Colm80]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

The now next info is Men & Motors (136)

Sorry R.R never copped that.

[Lunar]

Simply Home (640) has now changed name to "Superstore TV"

Still seems to be carrying the same/similar SimplyShopping commercials though

[zoton2]

Originally Posted by Lunar

Simply Home (640) has now changed name to "Superstore TV"

Still seems to be carrying the same/similar SimplyShopping commercials though

Theres no logo change, still simplyshoppingtv.co.uk !

[Lunar]

I don't get why they don't try to distinguish their channels from each other a little bit... sorta like Sit-Up do with Price-Drop & BidTV...

To me, 638, 640 & 641 are exactly the same programming wise...

[Otis]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

The now next info is Men & Motors (136)

Looks like my prediction of April 5th is correct then ...

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=206954

Makes sense really having the whole of ITV in the same transponder cluster ...

[skyisthebest]

SAB TV on EPG # 829 has been renamed to MATV National.

[Lunar]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

52107…………….11264 H S.R.22000 fec 2/3 Bars & Tone plus info (Life tv +2?)

Currently showing Life tv but with tone

[skyisthebest]

Ive read on another thread that Game In TV (EPG # 226) will soon rename to Poker Zone TV in the coming weeks.

[zoton2]

Originally Posted by Lunar

Currently showing Life tv but with tone

And teleshopping!

[zoton2]

10165…………….10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6. Showing ITV1 North East. FTA (Thanks Otis)

Anyone have an idea what the info (what programmes are on) is on this one, its not ITV1 Thats for sure

Its says at 19:08 :

10165
NOW : Crash Test
7:30pm : Driven

Ill see if i can find out!

EDIT : Oh its men and motors just what i thought!

[skyisthebest]

Its for Men & Motors. As already said on thread. ITV are moving Men & Motors to an ITV transponder seeing as they now own the channel. At the moment its still on the transponder that PLUS was on.

[zoton2]

Originally Posted by skyisthebest

Its for Men & Motors. As already said on thread.

Sorry didnt see!

Also looked at the epg and found out

phase of the second : There you meanies!

[Lakeuk]

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

10165…………….10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6. Showing ITV1 North East. FTA (Thanks Otis)

Is this fta, seems to be encrypted on my fta box

[Otis]

NOT a UK/RoI DTH service.

11.426 H SR:22000 FEC:5/6 (assumed encrypted in COAX) - TV service

InMedia

Label: 'AXN Satellite'

[Uri Gellar]

Originally Posted by Otis

NOT a UK/RoI DTH service.

11.426 H SR:22000 FEC:5/6 (assumed encrypted in COAX) - TV service

InMedia

Label: 'AXN Satellite'

Becareful what you select this fec because all the add channels will vanish...