Channel ReShuffle

[Kliro]

Does the box go off or anything when the channels change??

Doesn't seem to have happened here yet.

[thewiccaman]

Originally Posted by thewiccaman

Changed here in Derby as of 3.30am ish. Not had a chance to investigate what's where. I got the new channel guide card yesterday in the mail so just in time!

Now this is weird Forget what I said a few minutes ago - the channels have now gone back to their original numbering as of 4am but my favourites have gone. WTF

[invisibleboy]

channel numbers have changed here in brighton


seem to have ended up in a rather random order though, numericly i mean

[jellybaby]

Mines been changed too

[COOPERMAN]

Me also in Woolwich - LONDON. Although I had to re-order them using the default setting, because they were all over the place.

[mcmanic]

as said few posts up, Brighton has the new numbering and its wiped out the favs and now its very annoying to put in 101 instead of 1 on the remote

[neoapple]

way to go ntlhell. Yes go and confuse your customers. Now i dont even know all the numbers for my channels. I want the old ordering back.

[carmad]

Numbers changed here on the Wirral with no problems channel order was mixed up but setting back to default order sorted that out.

[Mal]

Changed here fine. In numerical order.

Will be spending most of tonight reordering my 2 boxes to the order that I want though...

[KN4995]

Oldham - just switched TV on and all channels renumbered as per NTL mail out.
What a ball-ache.

[neoapple]

i want my old style channel ordering back but cba to manually edit them and default will juat change them to the now ntl default channels. Gah!!!!!

[KN4995]

Just gotta bite the bullet and sit down and do it like the rest of us mate. No other option is there?
Right pain. Got so used to just hitting 1 on the remote to initiate the beginning of my channel surfing..

[Jules]

All changed here in Leeds, I can never be bothered to arrange all my channels as it takes so long so I just chose the option were it puts all the channels I don't subscribe to at the end of the list

[JonR]

The first I knew of this channel reshuffle was when I woke up this morning and couldn't get BBC1 by pressing "1" on the remote.

A couple of hours later and there's a letter in the post from NTL telling me that customers had told them that their channel numbers were a little strange, so they've changed them. I'm not sure what exactly was strange about having 1=BBC1, 2=BBC2, 3=ITV, 4=C4, 5=Five. Seemed logical to me.

Previously I knew my favourite channel numbers (such as 15 for ITV4, 8 for ITV3, etc etc); but now I need to remember 117 instead of 15 and so on. Where's the logic? If they were organising the channels to make it easier for all customers, shouldn't BBC3 and BBC4 follow BBC1 and BBC2; and shouldn't ITV2/3/4 follow ITV1?

Then I looked in the TV paper and realised what NTL have *really* done. It's nothing to do with what customers have told them. NTL numbers have changed to the numbers that Telewest use. Instead of changing the Telewest numbers, NTL change NTL numbers. Marvellous.

[King Of Fools]

Originally Posted by JonR

Then I looked in the TV paper and realised what NTL have *really* done. It's nothing to do with what customers have told them. NTL numbers have changed to the numbers that Telewest use. Instead of changing the Telewest numbers, NTL change NTL numbers. Marvellous.

It is not all that strange, really. There are effectively three parts of NTL:Telewest, the largest whole part was the Telewest area, then the Langley NTL area and finaly the smallest part was the Bromley NTL area (your part that had the renumbering last night).

It makes perfect sense to base the renumbering on the scheme already used by the majority of customers (Telewest). The scheme is also similar to that used by the second largest group of customers (Langley - 101 for BBC1, etc.). Unfortunately, you are in the minority (Bromley) so it was never going to match your old scheme.