[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

50684.............11.585 H No signal present (Thanks Digi man)
50305……………11.527 V No signal present (Thanks Nathan)
8305………………10.729 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6 Showing E4 (For Ireland ?)
8389………………10.729 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6 Showing E4 (For Ireland ?)
10075….…………10.758 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6. Bars & Tone. Blocked
10101….…………10.758 V sr,22.000 fec 5/6. ITV Test, Blocked
1871………………12.382 H showing The Community Channel
3310………………10.729 V Showing Bars & Tone
50181…………….11.307 V Showing Simply Shopping 638
50181…………….11.488 V showing duplicate of 52536 Showing Simply Shopping (638)
5719………………12.324 V Showing Boomerang (for +1?)
52567…………….11.426 V Showing The Adult Channel
52345…………….11.343 V Showing Loveworld. (Thanks James Vertigan)
1837………………12.226 H showing Sky Mix (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
1840………………12.226 H showing Sky Mix (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
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




{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.

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A bit of Radio news

Officials at GMG Radio have confirmed to Sky Digi Online that Jazz FM, on EPG 917,
will be rebranded to London's Smooth FM on 7th June 2005. http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital..._to_be_r_1.php

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“Coming Soon Section”…...

Travel Channel 3
*****

Coming Soon from Chart Show TV - World Cinema Channel? (From Sky is the best)

*****

May 7th
Discovery Home & Leisure Re-brand to Real Time

September
Faze TV (See story in Newsie bits Item # 15)

October
More4 (See story in Newsie bits Item # 16)

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Newsie Bits

1. Chart Show TV have registered True Stories TV on the Ofcom list but they are calling it True Movies TV now. Chart Show TV have also registered a movie channel called World Cinema Channel. According to the EPG, the first movie will screen on True Movies TV on Friday 29th April at 6.30pm called 'David’s Mother. This is how the end of the Movies section of the EPG will soon look:
 333 True Movies TV. {With promo loop} From Friday 29th April (Formerly Movies 333 and owned by Chart Show TV)
 336 Matinee Movies TV (owned by sit-up tv)
 339 Bad Movies TV (owned by sit-up tv)
 Coming Soon from Chart Show TV - World Cinema Channel? (From Sky is the best)

2. Digital Britain moves one step closer SwitchCo, the new government-backed organisation responsible for co-ordinating the UK's switchover to digital television, launched April 13th. Formed at the request of the UK Government to achieve a totally digital Britain, SwitchCo will be working closely with government departments, DCMS and DTI, and the media regulator, Ofcom. SwitchCo is funded and represented on the management board by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Teletext and S4C and the digital terrestrial television multiplex operators, Crown Castle UK and SDN. (From :- c21media.net)

3. Jetix (formerly Fox Kids) is planning to launch a new kids channel in the UK. GXT, aimed at 12 to 17-year-old boys, will go live in Italy on May 1st. Should it prove popular, a UK debut will follow soon after. GXT's programme lineup includes reality shows, extreme sports, wrestling, Japanese animation, music and live-action. Full Story Here:-http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20629.html

4. AXN Satellite Deutschland has appeared at 11426 H V sr, 22.000 fec 5/6 encrypted in Conax. They have a cracking website; www.axn.com The address given for AXN Europe Ltd is; Sony Pictures Europe House 25 Golden Square London W1F 9LU Tel: 020 7533 1230. An English language website can be had at, www.sonypictures.com ( UK launch soon?)

5. Napster, the online pay-music service, is considering the launch of a UK digital TV channel.(From Media24/7)

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

7. 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

8. 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, Bad Movies (Channel Now Testing) offering some of the worst Hollywood has to offer when it launches on the Sky platform on Monday. SitUp is investing £5m in the channel and a second new channel Matinee Movies (Also Testing ). From:- www.dtg.org

9. 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)

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

11. India's broadcasting corporation Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, which oversees Doordarshan, KS Sarma said, India's public broadcaster Doordarshan is planning a TV channel for people of Indian descent living in Britain.

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. 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

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. 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)

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

18. 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

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

20. 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 )

21. 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)

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

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

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

28. 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

29. 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.

30. 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

 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

 Further to the above article, Ahead of next year's launch, Sky has signed technology and equipment suppliers - Sony, Tandberg Television and Harris Corporation - to support its forthcoming HDTV service. There new stories at:- http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital...igns_up_hd.php & http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20662.html

 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

 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)

 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)

 As per the above the ASTRA HDTV Press releases are here:- http://www.ses-astra.com/products/br...tv/index.shtml

 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.

 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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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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[Otis]

You wait for ages for a film channel, and three come along at once ...

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by Otis

You wait for ages for a film channel, and three come along at once ...

Ha! Ha! Ha!.
That's it Quote of the week, Well done, my son.

[quinnyyy]

Do I need a FTV Card to view these channels?

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by quinnyyy

Do I need a FTV Card to view these channels?

Nope!

In the words of the infamous Child-catcher,
They are, "All free today",
and every day

[quinnyyy]

Even on a digibox, OMG!

[D. Sky D.]

Travel Channel 2 on 149 in the EPG is now Travel Channel +1

[quinnyyy]

all them channels say please insert viewing card, and i just turned my dish!!!

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by D. Sky D.

Travel Channel 2 on 149 in the EPG is now Travel Channel +1

is it now broadacsting the full hours of 8am to 2am ?
and has travel channel 1 reverted to 7am to 1am again?

[quinnyyy]

Well?............................

[D. Sky D.]

Originally Posted by Nathan.

is it now broadacsting the full hours of 8am to 2am ?
and has travel channel 1 reverted to 7am to 1am again?

Yes to both questions.

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by quinnyyy

all them channels say please insert viewing card, and i just turned my dish!!!

Just to confirm (on my digibox at least)

Film Channels;
330
333
& 336 are all FTA

(Channel 339 is not on air at present till 9pm)

[Digi Man]

Originally Posted by D. Sky D.

Travel Channel 2 on 149 in the EPG is now Travel Channel +1

Cant see them launching a new channel called Travel Channel 3 now. I bet we end up with Travel Channel 2 on EPG 150.

[daniel99]

Matanee Movies is showing Bid tv

[i am not here]

We Have Vagas 24/7 on Channel 274

[skyisthebest]

I THINK Loveworld TV will launch on EPG # 679 on Tuesday 3rd May (Due to Holiday on Monday 2nd).

On the topic of free movie channels - TCM was the ONLY free movie channel for ages. The Studio and Carlton Cinema existed but never launched on Sky. Then The Horror Channel launched, and now True Movies, Matinee Movies and Bad Movies! There is also the possiblity of the World Cinema Channel and MGM Movies launching on sky as well!

Would it appear that broadcasters have just noticed the hole in the market for free movie channels?

Could ITV dust off Carlton Cinema's archive and launch ITV Cinema?

[quinnyyy]

Some one please explain why you this don't work, I just moved my dish to sky for this! ( the channels at top of thread dnt work)

[skyisthebest]

Quote: Officials at GMG Radio have confirmed to Sky Digi Online that Jazz FM, on EPG 917, will be rebranded to London's Smooth FM on 7th June 2005.

On June 7th, i think the two Smooth FM radio channels will have to be labeled differently on the EPG to avoid confusion:

878 Smooth NW (Formerly Jazz FM as well)
917 Smooth Lond.

[Digi Man]

Yes I suspect you right there with those two radio channels, there will be a lot of confusion if both stations have the same name on the EPG.

I also suspect your right about the EPG number (679) for Love World TV. Just a quick note, only two more slots left for new religious channels to launch ( 680,681).

[Otis]

SMOOTH_FM_Nth

SMOOTH_FM_Sth

(Not exactly nuclear science)

[Otis]

I see the old Men & Motors (12.226 GHz H.) is now carrying the Sky logo and muzzak.

Which would tend to suggest that Sky Digital have plans for that (now vacant) transponder slot ...

[zoton2]

Originally Posted by Otis

I see the old Men & Motors (12.226 GHz H.) is now carrying the Sky logo and muzzak.

Which would tend to suggest that Sky Digital have plans for that (now vacant) transponder slot ...

Which is playing the old music!!

[quinnyyy]

you *******, tell me why after i read on here i can get some shit them you go fu<k up my 19.2 cause i fink e4 and boomerange and sky mix are all free,

[Analoguesat]

Has anyone ever said E4, Sky Mix or Boomerang is free on any satellite????

[astra19E]

It does say that some tests are being shown with those channels, but it said nowhere that they are Free To Air. If you didn't know you should have asked.