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There is a certain hurdle in the way of this happening at present relating to their current structure. I can't say anymore than that at the moment.

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:D:D:D

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Still waiting on information on the 2nd part of the news I saw on Wednesday - I was given the name but no other info.

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Past experience tells me That I won't need a fire hose 😞

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I imagine it's content licensing. I can see the logic in Comsat not moving too quickly on this in order to give Sky's offering less competition.

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It is “Red tape” (ie. non technical issue), but it is regulatory in nature, not content related.

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Just noted last night on my TV.

But as of February 2023, Gems TV (Virgin Channel 755) has cut it broadcasting hours:

Was - Live 24 hours a day.

Now - Only Live between the hours of 07:00-23:00.

Information on hours is from Gems TV's Wiki page.

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You really look at what this channel is doing :erm:

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2 versions of Sky News UHD have been added overnight (to the SDT). Hidden from the EPG and testing on Virgin's internal networks. Provisionally allocated channel numbers 136 and 607 and subscription packs M / Player / Mixit and above. Presumably for coverage of the Coronation.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

As first reported on April 13th

https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/burley-lum...ation-special/

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Are you sure? I believe it was first reported here: https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/artic...rt-in-ultra-hd

My post was an acknowledgement that Virgin is in the process of adding the channel(s), not a belated attempt to break the news that Sky News would be having UHD coverage of the coronation. :D

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Yes,the two links have the same date of April 13th. I was aware that you had spotted the tests so many thnks for posting that epsilon.

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You're welcome. The reason I said "presumably for coverage of the Coronation" in the post about the 2 Sky News UHD channels is that the Sky press release, and subsequent web posts such as the RXTV one, made no mention of UHD coverage on Virgin. Only that the coverage will be available on "Virgin channel 603", which is the HD version of Sky News. I'm still not sure why 2 separate UHD services have been added, one in the entertainment section and the other in the news section of the EPG. That could probably have been done by mapping both to the same streams. Confusing... maybe the entertainment version will be the UHD coronation coverage on Sky Showcase with a slightly different feed. Time will tell I guess.

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The info below relates to the UHD coverage only from https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...ation-round-up (The page also provides details of the HD coverages)

For V6 and 360 customers
On the day of the coronation, we’re making the experience as immersive as possible.
Customers will be given access to all the action at Westminister Abbey in ultra high definition via Sky News UHD (CH 607) or on our dedicated pop-up channel (CH 136 in the Entertainment section).
Both channels will be named Sky News UHD for the day, and are yours for no extra cost from 9am to 5pm on Saturday 6 May.

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'All the action", the fools talk like it's a football match.

Also, it says 'If you don't have UHD you can watch on our HD channels'. Surely they mean the Sky News UHD channels in HD??

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No, they mean all of the HD channels which will be showing the event.
What word would you use instead of ‘action’?

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Sorry can't think of a single word but could have used instead,Mombo jumbo , sleep inducing , Disney princess new show. Waste of money. Very long church service.:shocked:

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Events, processes, rituals. There certainly won't be any 'action'.

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Haha, totally agree that's why I won't be watching it.

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Might get a bit of fun if those stop oil clowns try to pull something during the event though.

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That would entertaining :rolleyes:

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Oh yes, that's true. Might put The Adulterers Tampon Fetish Show on in the
background just in case :D

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“Pageantry”?

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Slow motion? Boredom?

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Yes, that would have been an excellent better choice of wording.

I suspect that Virgin simply copy/pasted the synopsis of previous sports coverage and changed a few words. Action indeed! They're hardly going to get down to it in a church :D

I couldn't be bothered with it in the end, but I saw on the news that the police arrested six people. Were there any protests then in the end?

This is the same police who say that Governments cutbacks mean that they no longer have the resources to turn up for house burglaries, can't monitor paedophiles preying on children on the internet etc.

So much for equality & freedom to protest in today's UK. Anyone would think that this pair were more important than anyone else.

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The viewing figures are out for Saturday & apparently 20 million people watched the Coronation in the UK either broadcast or through streaming services. When you consider the cup final was watched by around the same number last year I can't see the monarchy disappearing anytime soon.

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Launching now
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/...d5634eb0&ei=23

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Only on TV360 and Virgin Media Stream boxes.

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And don't forget with virgin you pay extra , sky have Netflix and now this at no extra cost

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Depends on the offer.... I pay £64 pm for maxit TV, sky movies and sports (both HD),gig1 and Netflix. O2 SIM which I downgraded to £15 so that'll do till next May

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SKY also have discovery+ included too.

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So £79: per month?

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Sky looks very attractive when you see the ‘free’ streamer add-ons, but the cost overall for Sky I think is rather higher than Virgin. There was a £30 difference for the full package on Sky compared to Virgin when I last looked two or three months ago.

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So don't use /want sports or movies , Netflix £ 10.99 , mobile £11 , 12 gig ( use at most 1 per month) unlimited text ,calls virgin maxit ( I think) 120 meg, landline which I don't want :shocked: £34 so a total of £55.99 a month. + By friend have sky on tablet, can't claim to use very often :shocked: however always looking for a better deal. Did have a better deal on Netflix via daily mail code , however questioning if I will bother , as watching less and less and hopefully summer will soon be here, then I will be off to France

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So, can you not get Paramount+ on a V6 box?

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When I last looked no

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Maybe this is the start of the soft push to encourage people to move to the 360??

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Not at all no i pay £31p/m for sky stream entertainment plus cinema, that includes Netflix, Discovery+ and Paramount+ leave anytime
Plus £40p/m for giganet 1gbs up and down broadband leave anytime
Equalivalent on vm would set me back £85p/m that's without paramount+ and discovery+ aswell as a 18 months contract.

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That's a good deal you have on Sky Stream. :tu:

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I'll stick with the TiVo and use my fire TV stick 4k as the 360 is shit

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You can get the same with glass and skyq i believe but those would ofcourse be subject to a contractr,
anyway i'm going to shut up about SKY deals unless asked as i'm starting to sound like a SKY fanboy lol.

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A friend was considering doing something similar - there's some very good deals on the alt nets round here (Community Fibre 500MbS £23.50) but stuck to VM after negotiating with them. The website price for your package was £37pm and then there were some extra fees for each room so it got a bit pricey in the end.

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I phoned them and was like "hey man i'm thinking of coming back to SKY i'm interested in SKY Stream with movie pack can you fo me any deal please?"
Whilst he was looking we chatted about gaming as he is a gamer too he was like "i got this deal for you which includes ad skipping and no contract, also no charge for the puck."

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There is a trend towards standardisation across platforms using HTML5 apps which can be easily modified to suit individual devices. It shouldn't really be too difficult to bring the same apps to the 360 and the V6 but really depends on choices made by Virgin for their devices.

Customers also have a choice and don't have to be corralled towards the 360. Smart TVs within their product support period, Roku devices, Amazon Fire devices etc are more likely to have a much wider range of apps.

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It's total shite that they won't add an app onto the V6 box, so much for keeping your customers happy, I'm now seriously considering leaving Virgin.

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For the first time in over 25 years when our contract finishes our household is considering those same options

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Now that there's very good broadband from VM's competitors, there's no need to stay loyal to one brand. Especially with higher household bills.

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Agreed.

Just wish the competition would start installing around here…

Just rx’ed an email from OpenReach - well, when I say "update"…

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Absolutely VM need to book up or they'll find themselves losing a lot of customers as the likes of hyperoptic, cityfibre and openreach roll out their fttp services.
Quite a few on cityfibre are offering things like 1000mbs first 3 months free then as little as £35p/m afterwards.
I don't know about openreach fttp as we're a cityfibre area and i have to say Giganet is one of the best isps i have ever been with.
For example this is gigabyte

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TNT Sports to launch on July 18th.

A major employee of BT Sport has made a post about it's closure on Linkedin. He said that BT Sport will cease broadcasting on the 17th of July.

Sources: Digital Spy Forum and Linkedin.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Virgin M250 is £33 per month (after six months at £15 for New customer) so is actually cheaper

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A few months back i left Virgin Media after 27 years!...I switched to Community Fibre 1Gb for £27 which is amazing. It's the first time i've had an actual alternative to VM for broadband. OpenReach can only get 48Mb to my property with no fibre upgrades in sight.

Although i'm happy on the whole with leaving...i miss the recording functionality on the Tivo Box. Streaming services are great but i've noticed that channel 4's streaming quality is absolute dog poop.

iPlayer has the best streaming quality in my opinion followed by ITVX, then channel 5 and last channel 4.

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E4 Extra is no longer broadcasting any Music Videos but Virgin Media still got E4 Extra listing under Music on it EPG.

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Cheaper than Gigabyte yes but there are other options on the Cirtfibre network too.
Not to mention with VMS network you're restricted to just one provider and VMS upload speeds are appaulling.
VM is £50p/m for 250mbs after 18 months.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Perhaps I should have clarified that I was comparing Sky Q against Virgin’s offering (not including Virgin Stream).

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Older boxes don’t always cope with the newer technology too well. If this impacts on performance, it makes Virgin look bad. So they either have to force you to change or they will deny that streamer to your box.

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Can't really compare virgin stream with sky stream as one is only available to vms broadband customers and the other is available to anyone with decent speeds.

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The same (Arris) boxes are also used for TV 360 and can be converted between the 2 formats, they seem to cope quite well with the extra apps. Although the Humax TV 360 boxes don't appear to have the same flexibility.

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Yes, but the original TiVos can’t cope. Even the BBC i-Player struggles to work with them.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Original flavour Tivos didn't cope well with apps even when they were new. If boxes are light on resources they will quickly become sluggish when the workload is increased.

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I don't have a Tivo box, it's a V6 box that I have.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

I thought of your posts about BT in your area when they announced they were to shed a lot of staff because, partly, their broadband upgrade work would be completed soon!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Coming soon:

The service holding the placeholder for Sky News UHD has been repurposed as Sky Sports Ultra HD 2. The provisional channel allocation is 539 but could possibly change, before launch, to the 535 slot cleared by the movement of Sky Racing HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

I seen your post on the other web site and was think it way too.

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Could this one get used by Eurosport to show the French open in UHD?

They usually have a pop-up channel appearing this time of year for it

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That's already testing aswell
https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...ve=209&lang=en

My guess would be Sky plan to use Ultra HD 2 for a 3rd Premier League game in UHD on Sunday.

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Eurosport UHD resurfaced earlier in the month on the 16th. Technically, the service is always there in the background, just hidden from the EPG and not carrying any elementary streams (audio, video etc). If you are interested, this is the post I made on DS Forums at the time. https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_102822000

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

How difficult is it to put an app on the V6 box?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Perhaps they choose not to , They see TiVo as legacy platform, Disney+ and UKTV app aren't on it either.


The reason ITVX is on the V6 is probably because its got content from ITV1 on it - a PSB

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It depends how complicated the app is. I'm not sure how the V6 works with apps but, at its most basic, for many devices adding an app is a simple as providing an icon to make it easy to select the app and a URL for the html5 source. Not rocket science. Tweaking the app to display properly on each device should be the hardest part. Bloatware apps such as itvX will probably be more difficult.

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There will be differences though in how the apps can integrate with the EPG and other platform specific features.

So there would still need to be one app for 360 / Stream and a separate similar version for V6.

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But a lot less complicated than, say, Freeview Play apps which have to work across hundreds of different devices. Sure, it's not completely straight forward, apps have to be designed to work properly with different resolutions etc. so an app designed for HD content fills a 4K screen when launched and not just a quarter of the screen (yes, I have seen apps do that). Launching apps from the EPG is niche but should be relatively simple as the EPG should simply launch an app rather than be integrated with it. So each device should have its own routine to launch any app from the EPG.

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Confirmed:

My Sources has tonight confirmed to me that Virgin Media UK are set to launch Sky Sports UHD 2 on Virgin UK Channel 535 on May 26th.

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NOTE: No information was given on Eurosport UHD.

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Video and audio were added for Sky Sports UHD 2 a couple of days ago and were added to Eurosport UHD today. So both, as Martin Österdahl might say, are "good to go".

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Well the Tennis will start on Eurosport on Sunday - so both may launch tomorrow.

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The tennis in UHD will not be shown on Sky platform until Monday.

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Yes, both "launched" overnight as expected.

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Neither of these channels are available on Stream boxes. Par for the course with Sky channels - neither the recent UHD channel launches or Sky Kids HD have been added on the platform. I thought Eurosport UHD might have been made available though. Presumably it wasn't last year either.

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Sky sports only have 2 games on Sunday. They're showing the Leicester and Everton games

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It appears there have 3 games
https://www.live-footballontv.com/li...all-on-tv.html

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Only 2 according to Sky Sports website https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-fixtures they also only advertised 2 matches last night

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Yes, there weren't any Stream subscription codes in the info I saw. Sky Sports UHD 2 is for Sky Sports UHD tier subscribers on TV 360 & V6 boxes. Eurosport UHD is included in Maxit or the Sports personal pick for users on newer packs, Mix or Full House for those on legacy deals.

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There is a 3rd scheduled on Sky Sports Football aswell, It's been updated on Sky TV Guide on Sky.com

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Media Boy UK Sources:

Virgin Media UK are set to move some channels to new EPG numbers in coming months but no list was given.

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Maybe BT Sport channels soon to be TNT Sports ?

e.g TNT Sports promoted ahead of Eurosport especially if they agree a new deal with WBD if they haven't already since the SD versions of TCM and Cartoon Network were removed.

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I feel it maybe more then one broadcaster as I was told "Big EPG changes coming soon".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Perhaps they finally going to merge Entertainment and Factual & Lifestyle although a lot of that involves Discovery channels aswell since there is gaps to do it.

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As I have said I have still to be given any news on the list of channels set to move and also they moved date/dates.

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When I hear more I will post it here or on my Twitter page.

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Update:

My Sources has just told me that Virgin Media UK are set to make "between 70 - 90 changes" later this year.

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Pluto channels?

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A other Media Boy Source has just told me: "some very big changes are going to happen this year on VM, more info when i get it."

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Could you be any more non-specific?

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lmfao...:D

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The third game on is Carlisle v Stockport County,

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Sunday 4.30pm:
Aston Villa v Brighton & Hove Albion on Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Mix and Sky Showcase
Everton v AFC Bournemouth on Sky Sports Main Event
Leicester City v West Ham United on Sky Sports Premier League
Leeds United v Tottenham Hotspur on BT Sport 1
All the above are expected to be in UHD

And in Ireland:
Brentford v Manchester City on Premier Sports 1

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We’ve heard that one before, MB and the reality turns out to be disappointing, to say the least.

Probably it’s just a few channel number changes…

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If you had read one of my posts on the last page, you would have seen that my sources have told me that UP TO too 90 EPG channel changes are set to happen in the coming months.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Mr Pot allow me to introduce to you Mr Kettle.

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Oh the irony of this.

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But we knew that already, MB. That will be the new FAST channels that we were promised months ago when the addition of Paramount+ to the 360 boxes was announced.

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Both bubbling over with news that most people want to hear, of course. :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

Can anyone tell me when did Virgin Media UK move MUTV from Channel 525 to Channel 526?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

I checked as far back as August 2016 and it was 526 then. Any dates before that aren't reliable but:
July 2015 528 > 526
July 2009 530 > 528

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
 

As said above - I see it moved 526 in a mass move of channels in July 2015.

Can't find it ever being on 525.

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Historically 525 was used by Eurosport News then subsequently by British Eurosport 2. Last year 525 was used for Eurosport 5 HD for the 2022 Winter Olympics.