[Skie]

I dont know that it would be entirely down to Sky. Yes, the numbers are displayed because Sky want people broadcasting their feeds on the interweb stopped, but to do that each number has to be unique to a subscriber. Sky provide the channels, but they don't run the platform. The software which displays the number is on your box, which is what would need changing.

So it's probably VM who need to move the damned thing to somewhere less obtrusive, not Sky. And VM being VM, they will take their sweet time to do it if its a box software change.