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Old 18-09-2014, 14:07   #2020
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
Series links will be fine. They don't use the channel number. Each channel has a hidden identifier that never changes, and series links are based on that.
Thanks for letting us know this Maybe the previous slates i'm thinking of were for channels that had ceased broadcasting.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Wikipedia is now stating that 5*1 returned on 16 September as a Freesat exclusive. It's live on Freesat channel 132; Channel 5+24 is still on Freesat. I don't know if it ever left Freesat though. No mention of a +1 channel on Channel 5's website.
Cheers, it looks to me like they are rolling it out, starting with the platform that doesn't require much negotiation.

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Originally Posted by WBC-WORKER View Post
freesat changes 16-09-2014

5+24 was on LCN 132

it was moved to LCN 133

and 5* +1 was added to LCN 132
Hmmm, it also looks like they intend to keep 5+24 (at least in the short term) and that they regard 5*+1 as more important. That is unless 5* is on 131 on Freesat and they want to keep the main channel next to the timeshift variant.
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