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Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: New Sky Sports HD Channels set to launch on July 15th.

Media Boy HQ can now reveal that the following new channel launches and new channel numbers should happen on July 15th on Virgin Media:

Sky Basic (On the move):

New - Channel name - Old EPG Number
-109. Sky 1 - was 121
-110. Sky 1 HD - was 122
-111. Sky Living - was 109
-112. Sky Living HD - was 110
-121. Sky 2 - was 123
-122. Sky Living It - was 112
-123. Pick - was 180
-140. Sky Living It+1 - was 160
-180. Challenge +1 - was 140
-TBC. Sky Living +1 - was 111

Sky Movies (On the move):

New - Channel name - Old EPG Number
-404. Sky Movies Greats - was 410
-405. Sky Movies Disney - was 407
-407. Sky Movies Act+Adv - was 405
-408. Sky Movies Comedy - was 404
-409. Sky Movies Crime - was 411
-410. Sky Movies Drama - was 408
-411. Sky Movies Scifi - was 409
-434. Sky Movies Greats HD - was 440
-435. Sky Movies Disney HD - was 437
-437. Sky Movies Act+Adv HD - was 435
-438. Sky Movies Comedy HD - was 434
-439. Sky Movies Crime HD - was 441
-440. Sky Movies Drama HD - was 438
-441. Sky Movies Scifi HD - was 439

Sky Sports (On the move):

New - Channel name - Old EPG Number
-501. Sky Sports News - was 515
-502. Sky Sports 1 - was 511
-503. Sky Sports 2 - was 512
-504. Sky Sports 3 - was 513
-505. Sky Sports 4 - was 514
-506. Sky Sports 5 (Coming August 12th)
-507. Sky Sports F1 - was 516
-511. Sky Sports News HD (Launch date TBC)
-512. Sky Sports 1 HD - was 517
-513. Sky Sports 2 HD - was 518
-514. Sky Sports 3 HD
-515. Sky Sports 4 HD
-516. Sky Sports 5 HD (Coming August 12th)
-517. Sky Sports F1 HD

NOTE: I do not work for Virgin Media so all the information on this post is still subject to change.

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That is brilliant news, MB, really chuffed with that.

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Indeed its excellent news.

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Great news MB. Slightly surprised that SSN is the first channel on 501/511, would have thought this would be better at end and SS1 on 501/511.

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Indeed. Very odd to a give a minority channel such a prominent slot.

VM needs to have a rethink on this. It puts all the other Sky Sports channels out of "synch". Sky Sports 1 on ch502 doesn't work and will result in confusion and MANY calls to VM call centres and I know that VM love such calls....

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hope we don't have to wait to long for ssn HD

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Early 2015 base on info I have seen.

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Good deal for Sky as well it gives all their channels good prominence , how many channels per page does the TIVO guide display , if it's 8 like the Sky EPG the changes to the entertainment section will see the Sky Entertainment channels at the top of page 2.

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This would be better -

Sky Sports (On the move):

New - Channel name - Old EPG Number
-501. Sky Sports 1 - was 511
-502. Sky Sports 2 - was 512
-503. Sky Sports 3 - was 513
-504. Sky Sports 4 - was 514
-505. Sky Sports 5 (Coming August 12th)
-506. Sky Sports F1 - was 516
-507. Sky Sports News - was 515
-511. Sky Sports 1 HD - was 517
-512. Sky Sports 2 HD - was 518
-513. Sky Sports 3 HD
-514. Sky Sports 4 HD
-515. Sky Sports 5 HD (Coming August 12th)
-516. Sky Sports F1 HD
-517. Sky Sports News HD (Launch date TBC)

Although forget about the order, we've got them all in HD :woot:

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dammmmmmmmmmmmm that's too long :(

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EXCELLENT. Looking forward to this.

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Order is important as it makes it easier to find what you want, but I agree having them in the first place is the most important of all.

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exactly I never thought we get the missing sports HD channels so happy to be wrong on that

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Still yet to understand why it's taking so long to launch these channels if the contract has been signed?

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Good. Having Sky Living before Sky1 just made no sense.

Is there anything on 500 or 510?

They should have put News and News HD on those numbers respectively. Makes more sense.