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Freesports would be a good candidate for this one, as it would increase their coverage significantly. Depends whether they want to give up their HD mux capacilty or not.

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Well, they are due to go HD soon, but they did say that it would be too expensive on Freeview, so who knows?

As time goes by the temporary mux that they are on will be closed, so they will have to do something in the same way that Talking Pictures did. I suspect that because of this the cost of the permanent muxes will increase, so now would be a good time to do it if they can afford it.

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Another as yet unamed HD channel is due to join soon. My thoughts are:

CNN International, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg already broadcast FTA in HD, so must be the most likely options.

Iran International and Record TV also broadcast FTA in HD, so can't be discounted.

Insight appear to be keen to increase their presence as they are in discussions with Virgin Media to carry them. Getting onto Freesat would be much easier, so I certainly wouldn't rule them out.

Maybe Sky are to finally make Sky News HD available?

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QUEST HD will shortly start on EPG no 172.

Bloomberg TV HD was the mystery channel, it will shortly start on EPG no 216.

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Does anyone know if quest hd and Bloomberg tv hd launch on freesat this week?
is it true quest hd is going to be on epg no 172 and Bloomberg tv hd on epg no 216?

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See post #290

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Speculation that GOLD SD may be going FTA after it is said that it will be removed from Now TV in September.

If this comes to fruition, i'd expect it to be carried on Freesat along with all the other UKTV FTA channels.

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False alarm i'm afraid, following the removal of the UKTV channels from Virgin Media, UKTV are in negotiations with Sky to add the remaining channels to NOW TV, so GOLD won't be going FTA any time soon (at present, only GOLD is on Now TV).

Quest HD was due to have launched yesterday, but didn't on any platform. No idea what the delay is, but everything is technically in place for it to joint Freesat on channel 167. The Freesat data, EPG info. subtitles etc are all up and running.

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There is now another way to watch Vintage TV for those that miss it on Freesat and Freeview:

http://watch.vintage.tv

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The service has also been withdrawn from Sky & Virgin.

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On VM, channel 343 says that Vintage TV is currently off air due to a 'technical fault'.

Sadly, I have to concur with what omnidirectional had to say about this in another thread:

Initial enquires to Sky and Vintage TV were met with people being told that they knew nothing about the channel being unavailable. Now Vintage TV are saying that, in order to make the channel as widely available as possible, the channel has been temporarily removed from Sky & VM.

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