Re: Freeview changes
 

Or not as the QVC Beauty / QVC Style capacity shares have moved from COM 6 (Arqiva) to COM 4 (SDN).

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Here is the up to date list of space on Freeview being unused.

UK Wide 24 hours slots:
-Old ITVBe (Where Together TV broadcast) slot on COM4
-Old QVC Beauty/QVC Style slot on COM6

Part time slots:
-No Part time slots available on Freeview.

Slots information right at time of posting.

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The QVC Channels moves was not reveal before hand.

Also SDN do have a free slot as when ITV's SDN do find a buyer for Together TV will close or move back to COM6 using Together TV +1 slot.

NOTE: Together TV is listed as a community benefit society and SDN has given them a 24 hour slot for nothing.

All other networks do a same thing with Together TV.

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No but I did hint a couple of post back that there were services waiting to transfer from Arqiva.

When Freeview launched, after the collapse of On Digital and before the licence change that allowed BBC B to operate on commercial terms, BBC services were split between BBC A and the new BBC B (and SDN). The Community Channel was also carried on BBC B, as a charity / community service that was allowed under the BBC's PSB licence. With the introduction of HD, BBC services on BBC B were squeezed onto BBC A alongside its existing services. There wasn't enough room for the Community Channel and since then it has been allowed to operate on any free capacity available on the commercial multiplexes. As you suggest, it does get squeezed out whenever commercial channels are willing to pay for the slot it has been using.

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Look like QVC deal with COM6 was up on May 1st.

As QVC Beauty / QVC Style is only broadcasting on SDN/COM4 now.

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Within the last week or so BBC FOUR has reactivated the HD / SD switch, which was disabled shortly after Channel List Management was first activated.

BBC FOUR (SD) LCN 9 CLM 614
BBC FOUR HD LCN 106 CLM 9

Adjusting for BBC Scotland using channels 24 and 108 in Scotland, the position there should be:

BBC FOUR (SD) LCN 24 CLM 614
BBC FOUR HD LCN 108 CLM 24

Freeview Play devices only.

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Wonder if anything will happen on Wednesday to Freeview changes?

Re: Freeview changes
 

Yeah, I'm losing sleep thinking about it.

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Why would anything happen?

I know I'm busier elsewhere these days but I didn't think I was that out of the loop.

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Freeview add or move channels on the last Wednesday of the Month but I did forgot that May this year ends on a Wednesday.

Plus Freeview has a SDN and COM6 slot free at time of posting.

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There doesn't seem to be much demand at the moment, which isn't really surprising considering the state of the economy.

Re: Freeview changes
 

THREE Channels removed today from Freeview EPG:

*BBC Information Channel
*QVC Beauty (From COM6)
*QVC Style (From COM6)

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Still nothing done to fix the HbbTV channels displaying as "This service is currently unavailable".

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The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has today published that Local TV services on Freeview and Virgin Media are set be allow to broadcast until 2034, subject to a review of each station’s future plans

What is local TV?
*KMTV (Maidstone)
*Latest TV (Brighton)
*Local TV Birmingham
*Local TV Bristol
*Local TV Leeds
*Local TV Liverpool
*Local TV Teesside
*Local TV Tyne & Wear
*Notts TV (Nottingham)
*NVTV (Belfast)
*Sheffield Live
*That's TV East Anglia
*That's TV Hampshire
*That's TV Humber
*That's TV Lancashire
*That's TV Manchester
*That's TV North Yorkshire
*That's TV North Yorkshire
*That's TV South Midlands & Cotswolds
*That's TV Surrey & South East
*That's TV Thames Valley
*That's TV Salisbury & Wessex
*That's TV West Anglia
*London Live
*Local TV Cardiff
*Local TV North Wales
*That's TV Central Scotland
*That's TV East Scotland
*That's TV Edinburgh & South Scotland
*That's TV North Scotland
*That's TV West Scotland
*That's TV Cumbria & Border
*That's TV Swansea Bay & South Wales
*That's TV York

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/p...air-until-2034

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The only things that should be renewed are the L-MUX franchises. At least they have some content. The local city channels are well past their use by date.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Never seen Notts TV.
Apparently its only on Freeview, which I dont have.

Re: Freeview changes
 

What was the BBC Information Channel on Freeview?

Re: Freeview changes
 

A waste of space. It just mirrored the similar channel on Sky but none of the BBC SD regions were closed on Freeview, so there was nothing to tell the viewers.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Re: Freeview changes
 

Yeah, agree.

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Quite. Given the wording wasn't of specific use to DTT, telling them their HD version of BBC1 was finally getting replaced with a regionalised version, having something that was clearly designed for another platform woukd just be plain confusing to many I'd imagine.

They'd have been better with a pop-up message on Freeview Ch 101 saying they woukd get regional content from a certain date and may need to retune. As far as I know there was no pop-up message.

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I also find it frustrating that I have to go to Freeview for London Live. A few years ago LL expanded their coverage to include Reigate, Redhill & Crawley to the south of the M25, & Hemel Hempstead, St. Albans & Watford to the north.

However the channel remains unavailable from VMs Hemel headend, meaning Hemel & St. Albans can only get it on Freeview, as VM still refuse to supply it outside the M25 to the North of London. Customers in Watford have always had it, as it has always been available from the former Jones Cable headend in the town.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Useful information. I always wondered if Virgin had followed suit when London Live was added to the Hemel Hempstead transmitter, clearly not.

Re: Freeview changes
 

A Media Boy UK Source has reveal today that WildEarth will launch soon on Freeview 91.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Here is some Freeview information base on RAW information given to me by a Media Boy UK Source.

*Arqiva will have NEW capacity to use after a multiplex upgrade at also set to happen later this year (Not one that free right now on SDN or COM6 - one of them will soon be use by Wild Earth).

*Arqiva has signed broadcasting deal with yet unknown numbers of broadcasters for TWO HD Channels to launch FROM November 2023 in new capacity to come online later this year.

---------- Post added at 17:40 ---------- Previous post was at 17:22 ----------

Wild Earth will launch ON Freeview on June 21st.

Re: Freeview changes
 

At the moment, only BBC B is configured for HD on Freeview. If Arqiva plans to add HD channels on Freeview, they will need to concert one of their multiplexes to DVB-T2. To invest in such an upgrade, they would need to be certain that the multiplex has a guaranteed future. However, the proposed COM licence extensions come with an option to revoke the licence after 2030 if the frequencies are needed elsewhere. I doubt that Arqiva would make a significant investment with such uncertainty, even though their new backers are keen to keep Freeview running well beyond 2030.

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I forgot to mention that these services were restored early in June.

Re: Freeview changes
 

QVC Channels changes on June 21st on Freeview EPG:

*37. QVC Beauty (No news yet on what will happen from June 21st)
*38. QVC Style (Moving to Channel 37 from June 21st)

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Today changes on SDN:

*QVC Style and QVC Beauty will merge to become known as QVC2 on Freeview Channel 37 today.
*WildEarth launches on Freeview channel 91.^

^Viewers will need to retune from midday Wednesday to start watching the channel.

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Freeview changes (Highlights):

*QVC Style and QVC Beauty merge to become QVC2 (Only on Freeview)
*Channel 5 +1 moves to channel 38.
*Both GREAT! tv and Together TV moves to COM6.
*WildEarth launches on Channel 91.
*GREAT! tv old local Mux slot is the only up for grabs.

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Today's Freeview changes in full:

007. That's TV Manchester (Now That's TV)
008. That's TV Scotland (Now That's TV)
037. QVC2 (Channel rebrand)
038. Channel 5 +1 (Was Channel 46)
046. 5SELECT (Was Channel 56)
050. GREAT! tv (Now UK Wide on COM6 Was Local Mux)
083. Together TV (Now on COM6 Was COM4 - now Broadcasting 5am to 7am)
090. Together TV +1 (Now Channel 92 - now Broadcasting 7am to 8am)
091. WildEarth (New Channel)
107. BBC THREE HD (Was Channel 109 - Not in Scotland or Wales)
261. VisionTV (Was Channel 264)
262. Arise News (Was Channel 269)
264. FailArmy (Was Channel 274)
266. Pet Collective (Was Channel 278)
267. Al Jazeera English (Was Channel 285)
268. Al Jazeera Arabic (Was Channel 286)
269. WION NEWS (Was Channel 287)
270. Real Crime (Was Channel 288)
274. ASHARQ News (New Stream Channel)
275. AL ARABIYA (New Stream Channel)
675. ADULT Xpended TV (Was Channel 678)

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Here is the up to date list of space on Freeview being unused.

Unuse 24 hours slots:
-Old GREAT! tv slot on LOCAL mux (Only in some areas where you can watch KMTV, Latest TV, Local TV, Notts TV, NVTV, Sheffield Live, That's TV (With Local News), GREAT! movies +1, GREAT! romance, RealityXtra and Tiny Pop.)

Part time slots:
-No Part time slots available on Freeview.

Slots information right at time of posting.

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That's TV do not have a licence to run That's Reality BUT has a new licence for That's Cinema.

Re: Freeview changes
 

DS Forum is reporting that Ideal World has "temporarily suspended broadcasting" and closed its website.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Sounds like it might be the end for Ideal World.

It does surprise me that there seems to be room for only one general TV shopping channel but maybe in the current internet-first world I shouldn't be surprised.

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Just found out that Mike Ashley's Frasers Group did buy the "bigger stake" in Ideal World last week.

*Also Mike Ashley owned Ideal World HQ
*So DS Forum thinks that Ideal World may get rebrand as Sports Direct TV soon

Re: Freeview changes
 

Does anybody watch shopping TV? It's all American accent trash adverts and products.

There are much better outlets.

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I know a "American accent trash adverts" shopping channels you on about but they are only on Sky.

I watch Shopping TV as they are something better then a comedy channels.

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That's mostly the Teleshopping segments you get, especially on late and early parts of major channels and the filler shopping channels you get in the lower (higher, depending on hiw you look at it) parts of the Sky Guide. The "bigger" ones in the UK are basically a studio, a British presenter or two discussing the products beside them, and then they cut to another part of the studio with the next category of items with the presenter of the next "show". And depending on the item, it can be things you can get on the high street. Last time I stumbled onto a channel (easy to do when on DTT) they were selling HP laptops.

I know what you mean though, there is a lot of complete drivel and tat.

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GREAT! Network expands multiplex reach

*Owner Narrative Entertainment UK is also bringing back POP Max to Freeview, part of its POP network of children’s channels. The changes will be completed by Wednesday 19 July 2023.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2023...ltiplex-reach/

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Pop! is swapping streams with Great! Romance, so the former is reducing its coverage. RXTV also has the Pop Max part as TBC, so that's not necessarily definite.

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Pop Max will use GREAT! tv old slot.

Here what I have found out by sources:

Changes for the following channels on Freeview:

*GREAT! Romance (GREAT! Christmas Sep-Jan) moves from Local mux to COM6.

*POP to move from COM6 to Local mux.
*POP Max to use GREAT tv old slot on Local mux.

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I guess they are finally seeing the mistake they made in their rush to move from mainstream multiplexes to the local ones. Cheaper, yes but lower coverage so less advertising revenue to fund the channels. I wonder if they are, or have been, lobbying for PSB funds for the kids content.

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I know they asset stripped IW and got out while it could still be sold as a going concern but I lost all faith in IW when the former backers of Bid TV got involved. A lot of former Bid presenters also ended up on IW and that really didn't give me any confidence in its long term future.

Re: Freeview changes
 

They possibly needed to cut costs quickly and saw it as the least bad option. They may not have been able to stick it out on a main mux.

Given CITV is closing it's a shame they didn't stick it out a little longer with wider Pop DTT coverage. They can always change their minds though.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Reports are coming in that 250 staff at Ideal World made redundant. No buyer for the channel.

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/...undant-4209633

Re: Freeview changes
 

Ideal World was broadcasting on COM6 on Freeview Channel 51.

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If reports are to be believed and it is burdened with debt it won't be an attractive acquisition for any buyer. I guess the best hope was a full takeover by the Fraser Group, who seem to have been increasing their shareholding in recent times. Even so, it is better to go through liquidation, and then acquire any assets at a bargain basement price from the liquidators. That may be what eventually happens but it could just be that IW has finally run out of steam.

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My own views:

What will happen next to Ideal World (WI) slot on Freeview:

*IW administrators will be talking to Arqiva & Everyone TV
*Will the owned of GREAT! buy Channel 50 for:
-GREAT! Romance to move to channel 51
-GREAT! Movies +1 moves to channel 52
-With channel 63 becomes available to another broadcaster.

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Kroll Advisory Ltd, who were actively seeking a new buyer for IW recently have now been appointed as administrators. Meanwhile, the Fraser Group, acting as "Sportsdirect.com Retail Limited" have registered a charge over the assets of the company. So, it would seem that Frasers have claimed ownership of anything of any value and the administrators are left handling the debt. This should be interesting.

Re: Freeview changes
 

I feel Frasers may buy the non TV Side of the company and own Ideal World name to run the web site.

With the EPG channels numbers on both Sky and Freeview going to any broadcaster who want them.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Having been on the other side of this type of situation I can say that things are not always as they seem. A certain chain of events is sometimes preferred to allow a debt free phoenix to rise from the ashes. IW will have a seriously damaged reputation by now but I wouldn't be altogether surprised if we see Peter Simon again at some point, trying to sell drones to an unsuspecting public. Repeating the mantra that IW is a trusted supplier with a 20+ year history etc etc..

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TJC or Gems TV have 5 channels so he may end up with one of them I can't see him going to QVC.

If Fraser Group do launch Sports Direct TV it won't be live but it will be like the Shopping channels you see late at night on channels like MTV, Quest and Pick.

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Ideal World slot is NOT 24 hours on COM6 it was broadcasting from 7am to 12midnight everyday.

Maybe Gems TV will ask Arqiva to move them from COM5 to COM6 to save them the wee bit of money. But Together TV will end up with Ideal World old slot on COM6.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Maybe someone could launch Every Day is a Panto TV and employ Peter to ramble on endlessly. :D

Re: Freeview changes
 

New space for a 24 hour broadcasting channel has been found on the Local TV Mux.

see the final part of the link: - https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...ive=47&lang=en

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Digital Spy Forum's poster "kjhskj75" has just posted:

This happened around 2pm:

*LCN 52 "GREAT! romance" has moved from Local to ArqB.
*LCN 206 "Pop" has moved from ArqB to Local.
*LCN 208 "Pop Player" on SDN has changed LCN to 212.
*LCN 208 "Pop Max" has launched on Local.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Here is the up to date list of space on Freeview being unused.

Unuse 24 hours slots:
-Old New slot slot on LOCAL TV mux (Only in some areas where you can watch KMTV, Latest TV, Local TV, Notts TV, NVTV, Sheffield Live, That's TV (With Local News), POP, POP MAX, RealityXtra and Tiny Pop.)

Part time slots:
-Old Ideal World slot on COM5 mux (From 7am to midnight only).

Slots information right at time of posting.

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As far as the local mux is concerned, Pop has effectively replaced the duplicate of GREAT! TV with Pop Max replacing GREAT! Romance. So no extra streams. It would be very difficult to see that from the bitrate graph you linked as it seems to be suffering from a poor signal and as a result severe bitrate or packet loss.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Never mind all that MB. What are you having for your Birthday tea? :)

Re: Freeview changes
 

GREAT Movies +1 has now close on Freeview so Tiny Pop is now 24 hours.

That bitrate story about the new "slot" was found by Mike aka A516Digital on his twitter page.

https://twitter.com/a516digital/stat...15063415681024 (You may not see link)

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KFC

Re: Freeview changes
 

If you look at this one you will get a better perspective. https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...ive=47&lang=en
They do seem to have been experimenting with 5 stat-muxed channels alongside the fixed bitrate local channel but have rolled back to 4 stat-muxed services with today's changes. I would hope that having 5 stat-muxed channels was a configuration error as that many services on a QPSK mux would be very bad. They could convert to QAM-64 to add more services (as the GMUX did) but that would make the signal far less robust and severely reduce the coverage areas of the multiplexes. They won't be allowed to reduce the coverage areas for local TV so that is a non starter.

Re: Freeview changes
 

If you look at the local TV broadcaster they have X2 higher Mb/s then any other broadcaster on Local TV Mux.

So if the local broadcaster Mb/s in half the new slot can launch - DS Forum think it will be That's Cinema.

Re: Freeview changes
 

That's because the other broadcasters are stat-muxed and sharing video bandwidth. They are all muxed together by Comux at its Birmingham NOC. The local services are added separately at fixed bitrate so need to be at a much higher bitrate. It is by design. Adding the local service to stat-muxing would require a vast amount of extra encoders as the services would then have to be stat-muxed for each and every local TV area. Rather than a single national stat-mux with local services added at fixed bitrate. So, you are talking about dozens of extra, very expensive, encoders. They just won't do that for the local multiplexes which are run as cheaply as possible.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Thanks for the explanation.

I wonder if they are going to axe all their +1s and sell the channel numbers. Two of them are timesharing on the Manchester Mux, so if the Movies+1 disappears on Local Mux, as seems to be the case, I can't see them keeping all three channel numbers going, especially now they have Catch-up on Freeview.

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I don't see the point of the Manchester GIMux at all. With a relatively small coverage area and carrying channels that, surely, can't be very appealing to advertisers I'm surprised that it is still around. I can't see the Cardiff GIMux ever launching.

Re: Freeview changes
 

I had another look at this with a better view of events as the new channel mix pattern emerged. The earlier pattern noted on the Emley Moor bitrate graph doesn't really show an experimental combination of 5 stat-muxed channels. If anything, on a single scan, it seems that all of the channels normally stat-muxed were running at fixed bitrate and a much lower rate than would be needed to produce a reasonable quality output. So, I'll put that down to either a configuration error with the signal or with the DBR monitor. The second anomaly simply showed the GREAT! tv channel disappearing and being replaced by null packets. An indication that GREAT! tv had already been replaced with POP in the stat-mux at the Comux NOC but the SI data hadn't been updated to "extract" the new service for the transmitter sites. Quite messy really. But they don't seem to have had any more than 4 channels in the stat-muxed segment at any point in time.

Re: Freeview changes
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work.../hd-ip-streams

From today, supported Freeview Play devices (with suitable broadband speeds) can now receive several IP connected BBC HD channels.

301 BBC THREE (bringing HD coverage to Scotland and Wales but available nationwide)
302 BBC Scotland (extending coverage beyond Scotland)
303 BBC ALBA (extending coverage beyond Scotland)
501 BBC NEWS (making the HD service available once again to supported devices)
502 BBC PARLIAMENT (bringing the HD service to supported devices)

A retune may be required to add the channels.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Base on reports on DS Forum:

Listings indicate CITV will close at 2100 on the evening of 1 September 2023.

(I would have pick August 31st to close CITV)

Re: Freeview changes
 

Must Have Ideas has been renamed by OFCOM as Home Shop TV

http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/ra...homeshoptv.htm

Re: Freeview changes
 

OFCOM has just updated some channel licence for Freeview:

*That's Comedy has been removed from web site.
*That's Christmas has been added to the web site.

Source: OFCOM (web site).

Re: Freeview changes
 

That's Media has confirmed That's TV (UK) will be moving to a new Freeview Channel number from August 23rd.

But their did not post what the new channel number will be.

---------- Post added at 16:47 ---------- Previous post was at 16:45 ----------

OFCOM has just updated some channel licence for Freeview:

All of the following has been added to OFCOM web site.

*GREAT! romance mix
*GREAT! player
*GREAT! movies extra
*GREAT! tv 1

Source: OFCOM (web site).

Re: Freeview changes
 

Has That's TV (UK) done a deal with Ideal World administrators to buy Ideal World slot of Channel 51 on Freeview?

List below is my own views on what may happen from August 23rd on Freeview to That's TV Network of channels:

*That's 70s may broadcast from 7am to 10am
*That's 90s (Or any other That's Channel) may timeshare until 12am on IW old stream
*That's 80's may get new hours of 3am to 9am
*That's TV (UK) being a 24 hour channel on Freeview

Re: Freeview changes
 

Virgin Media's EPG has confirmed that ITV's CITV Channel will close at 9pm on September 1st.

Re: Freeview changes
 

That's TV (UK) has now confirmed on X that it new channel number on Freeview will be 56 from Wednesday.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Rumours on DS Forum is reporting - That's 60s is set to move to That's TV UK old Freeview channel number of 65 from Wednesday.

Re: Freeview changes
 

This weeks Freeview changes in full:

EPG > Channel name > Other info you need to know
056 > That’s TV UK > moves from Channel 65
061 > GREAT! movies+1 > moves multiplex from Local to COM6 (timeshare with GREAT! movies and broadcast from 3am to 5am)
062 > GREAT! tv+1 > moves multiplex from G_MAN to COM6 (timeshare with GREAT! tv and broadcast from 4am to 6am)
063 > GREAT! romance+1 moves multiplex from G_MAN to COM6 (timeshare with GREAT! romance and broadcast from 3am to 5am)
065 > That’s 60s > moves from channel 71
071 > That’s 70s > moves from channel 75 and swaps multiplex slots with That’s 80s now broadcasting on COM6 from 4am to 6am
075 > That’s 80s > moves from channel 76 and swaps multiplex slots with That’s 70s now broadcasting on COM5 from 3am to 9am
076 > That’s 60s MCR > moves from channel 77. Manchester only.
077 > That’s 70s MCR > moves from channel 80. Manchester only.
080 > That’s 80s MCR > moves from channel 86. Manchester only.
086 > That’s 90s > launches. Manchester only.
220 > POP information slate > removed and delisted.
278 > Zee World > placeholder launch. Streaming channel on COM4
285 > Together TV+1 > moves from channel 90. Converts to full-time streaming channel. on COM6.

Source: RXTV.

With added information on broadcasting times from me.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Well they certainly scared away the competition on the Manchester GIMUX. Only That's TV and TV Warehouse channels on there now. TV Warehouse can't be making many sales with such a small coverage area. I can't see That's TV covering the costs from advertising either and as they aren't selling capacity to any mainstream third party broadcasters now, I wonder how long it will last.

Re: Freeview changes
 

omnidirectional has posted the following on DS Forum:

I found all posts of Orry Verducci on pres.cafe very very good with info on how a channel works.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Maybe nothing but:

The EPG on Freeview is now saying from Tomorrow:

*GREAT tv +1 now 4am to 10pm
*GREAT movies +1 now 10pm to 4am
*GREAT romance +1 now 10pm to 4am
*ITV3 +1 has gone back to 9pm to 4am

Re: Freeview changes
 

That would be interesting at the weekend...

At the moment the Great +1s are a joke

Great! TV goes off-air for a couple of hours overnight to give a 2 hour slot to Great! Movies +1 but continues showing the Great! TV scheduled programmes.

Great! Movies goes off-air to give a 2 hour slot to Great! TV +1 but continues with the Great! Movies schedule.

Great! Romance makes way for Great! Romance +1, again, continuing with the Great! Romance schedule

So the +1s don't actually show +1 content and not necessarily even the correct channel in the service name. What a mess!

Re: Freeview changes
 

Update - GREAT tv +1 is NOT broadcasting but its EPG is

ITV3 +1 and CITV Channel is not broadcasting.

Re: Freeview changes
 

UPDATE:

It been reported on Digital Spy Forum that ITV has given a CITV Channel broadcasting hours to sister channel ITVBe+1 which now runs from 5am to 9pm on SDN.

Re: Freeview changes
 

It is difficult to make any sense of the information ITV supply on Freeview as far as their timeshares go. It would seem that ITV4+1 switched from a 5am-6am slot to 4am-5am with ITVBe+1 moving from 4am-5am to 5am-6am but extending into the former CITV timeslot so, as you say, now 5am-9pm. One day ITV may update the slates and EPG to reflect the actual hours. Maybe they will also add working hbbTV slates to accompany the MHEG ones. Then owners of newer TVs wouldn't just get a confusing channel "not available" message.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Today changes on Freeview:

New Channel Launches:
*286. NHK World
*287. Newsmax

Channels on the move:
*68. RealityXtra (Was Channel 69)
*69. HorrorXtra (Was Channel 68)

Channel Closures:
*273. Al Arabiya

Re: Freeview changes
 

These swapped multiplexes according to UKDTT and therefore Reality has an increased coverage and Horror has a reduced coverage area.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Possibly one of the weirdest changes ever
SID 34112 on the local mux changed from carrying RealityXtra to carrying HorrorXtra
SID 14456 on COM4/SDN changed from carrying HorrorXtra to carrying RealityXtra

Meanwhile the LCN and CLM channel numbers were different for a while until things caught up and the EPG details were mirrored for each channel. RealityXtra has increased coverage and some viewers will have lost HorrorXtra if they aren't in a local mux coverage area.

The Al Arabiya channel closing on 273 is the VisionTV stand alone version (the newer Synapse TV version of Al Arabiya continues on channel 275). Channels 272 & 273 have been promising new services coming soon for quite a while, with nothing actually showing up. They have possibly exceeded the amount of time allowed to stay on the EPG without carrying a service. 272 remains under its old name Asharq News (again replaced by a Synapse TV service on 274). Still promising a new service coming soon but also launching into an old Superman cartoon. Very odd but it probably allows them to hang onto the EPG slot for a while longer.

Re: Freeview changes
 

BREAKING NEWS:

Mike (AKA a516digital) is reporting on his X Feed that Ideal World brand and Freeview channel number has been bought by TJC.

Can't post link as you need to follow him to view his posts.

But more can be found on RXTV:

https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/ideal-worl...-saved-by-tjc/

Re: Freeview changes
 

Twitter's well broke now. Totally messed the place up, no wonder they locked down their feed.

Re: Freeview changes
 

Seen the following being reported online:

*Ideal World will relaunch and will broadcast from 7am to midnight.
*Ideal World will use TJC Beauty slot on Sky.
*Ideal World will also broadcast on 5USA in the morning.
*TJC Beauty will close.

https://www.shoppingtelly.com/post/t...l-world-assets

Re: Freeview changes
 

Ideal World takeover by TJC has now been confirmed by TJC.

https://www.vaibhavglobal.com/admin_...5058498653.pdf

Re: Freeview changes
 

Reports will say Ideal World will reappear on Friday (September 29th) using TJC Beauty broadcasting space.

TJC Beauty will no longer broadcast.

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I swear I didn't get the crystal ball from Ideal World. ;)

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Will TCC (Channel 78) be rebranded as Sky Mix +1 from October 18th?

Quote:

LCN > Channel name > Mux > Extended information Comments 11 > Sky Arts > COM5 > Moving to 36 on 18 Oct 2023 36 > Pick > COM5 > Sky Mix / Moving to 11 from 18 Oct 2023 78 > TCC > COM4 > Sky Mix +1 from 18 Oct 2023

https://www.terrestrialtv.uk/dtt.php

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TCC may be the oldest placeholder on DTT. It certainly seems like it. And I could never understand why it lasted so long, it didn't have an attractively positioned LCN so it's never seemed worth the holder's effort.

End of a bizarre era if true.

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BREAKING NEWS: That's Media has just reveal on X That's Christmas will launch on Freeview, Sky and Freesat on the following EPG Channels:

*Freeview Channel 65 (where That's 60s is right now).
*Sky Channel 329.
*Freesat Channel 181.

Sky has reveal that Channel will launch on October 18th.

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Next week Freeview Changes:

Wednesday:
*Pick rebrands to Sky Mix on Channel 36.
*Sky Mix moves from Channel 36 to Channel 11.
*Sky Arts moves from Channel 11 to Channel 36.
*That's Christmas launches on Channel 65.

Still not confirmed:
*That's 60s may move from Channel 65 to Channel 71 with new broadcasting hours.
*TCC may get rebrand as Sky Mix +1 on Channel 78.

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Since the page on the Freeview website will at some point be removed, here they are for the record:

"Pick" has renamed as "Sky Mix" and swapped LCNs with "Sky Arts"
so "Sky Mix" is now on LCN 11 and "Sky Arts" is 36.
(these are on ArqA)

also
65 "That’s 60s" has renamed as "That's Christmas" (on ArqA)
71 "That’s 70s" has renamed as "That's 60s" (on ArqB)
75 "That’s 80s" has renamed as "That's 90s" (on ArqA)
61 "GREAT! movies +1" has renamed as "GREAT! movies extra" (on ArqB)
63 "GREAT! christmas +1" has renamed as "GREAT! christmas mix" (on ArqB)

New IPTV channels on SDN:
288 Amazing Facts
289 NYX
290 Mech+

All information from DS Forum.

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Plus all Local TV Channels not by That's TV or London Live has been rebrand Talk - name of your local town here.

EPG > old name > new name:
7 > Birmingham TV > Talk Birmingham
7 > Bristol TV > Talk Bristol
8 > Cardiff TV > Talk Cardiff
7 > Leeds TV > Talk Leeds
7 > Liverpool TV > Talk Liverpool
8 > North Wales TV > Talk North Wales
7 > Teesside TV > Talk Teesside
7 > Tyne & Wear TV > Talk Tyne & Wear

And in Manchesther:

That’s 60s MCR is now That’s Christmas MCR
That’s 70s MCR is now That’s 60s MCR

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@Richardcoulter

I know The TCC Channel change to Sky Mix +1 has NOT happen.

But as I always says at on my X or blog is "Information may change".

I first found the Sky Mix +1 info here https://terrestrialtv.uk/dtt.php

But information has since been removed.

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The following changes will happen on Freeview in the coming month:

November
22nd - Rebrands for CBS Reality, Reality Xtra and Horror Xtra

January 2024
4th - That's Christmas > That's 70s
5th - GREAT! Christmas/+1 > GREAT! Romance/+1

All info was given by a Sky worker on DS Forum:

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UKTV Channels will rebrand in Summer 2024, the move will see its current streaming service UKTV Play transition to U and UKTV's family of free-to-air channels will become U&Dave, U&DRAMA, U&YESTERDAY and U&W.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/uktv-freev...ls-to-rebrand/

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Freeview rumour:

Is SDN set to launch a new 24 hour stream?

*Base on EPG listing it will be ITV4 +1 from December 1st.

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_103849174

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Though there's a "disturbance" on Digital Bit Rate the apparent hours changes for other ITV +1s on that Mux could mean it's a case of changing which +1 gets the most stream hours on the current one.

They've already crammed too much on tha Multiplex, the quality would be awful if they launched another.

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ITV owned SDN make room for new 24 hr chnnel

*SDN to launch new 24 hr channel soon.
*ITV2 +1 now stop broadcast at 2am.
*ITV3 +1 now broadcast from 4am - 6am
*ITV4 +1 will use broadcast slot until SDN can sell it
*ITVBe +1 now broadcast from 2am - 4am

https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/itv-makes-...eeview-change/

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UPDATE - Here is the real broadcasting hours for ITV +1 digital Channels on Freeview.

They will also broadcast from the same slot - as listed:

6am - ITV4 +1
7am - ITV2 +1
2am - ITVBe +1
4am - ITV3 +1

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Here is the up to date list of space on Freeview being unused.

Unuse 24 hours slots:
-Old ITVBe +1/ITV3 +1 slot on ITV's SDN mux

Part time slots:
-No slots are free right now.

Slots information right at time of posting.[/QUOTE]

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Who may move to SDN?

Who may move to sit beside sister channel on SDN

-Dave
-Drama +1
-Yesterday+1 (So it can broadcast longer)
-Yesterday
-Ideal World
-GREAT! tv
-GREAT! christmas
-Together TV+1
-GREAT! movies
-5SELECT
-POP
-POP MAX
-Tiny Pop
-LEGEND
-LEGEND XTRA

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SDN: Request for Proposal for the carriage of a Digital Television Programme Service on COM4 on the UK DTT Platform September 2023

https://sdn.co.uk/assets/SDN-RFP-2023.pdf

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Disturbances should be treated with caution as they can indicate poor reception or connections at the monitoring site. In this case, however, the pattern is repeated across several sites. It shows a random total (aggregated) video bitrate and a variable bitrate for null packets. That is indicative of an additional service added to stat-muxing at C&M centres but without the necessary SI data in the transport streams to show what the extra service is. In that case, the additional service would only show in null packets (the black bit at the top of the graph), which is what seems to be happening here. Not an additional stream though as ITV Be +1 (now 2am-4am), ITV 3+1 (now 4am-6am), ITV 4+1 (now 6am-7am) have been moved to these shorter timeshares in capacity released by ITV 2+1 (now 7am-2am). If ITV was able to use hbbTV (they don't seem to be as their off-air slates are only available as MHEG versions) they could stream the +1 services when the broadcast versions are off-air.

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ITV's SDN has given it new 24 hour slot to Together TV until SDN can get buyer for slot.

Together TV old slot on COM6 (From 5am to 8am) is now being unuse.

Freeview viewers may need to return their TV/Box to view Together TV carry on watching on Channel 83.