General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

[cheekyangus]

JJ20X on ForumBox has found the information screens for the channel number changes. https://www.forumbox.co.uk/forum/thr...ork/?pageNo=12

Though they've clearly made a mistake, as there's a Good Food logo instead of a Food Network one, and Animal Planet HD is mentioned twice on two different numbers, so I've corrected channel name below, and I assumed the lower Animal Planet HD was the correct one.

Food Network 278
Home 279
Home & Health 280
Discovery Shed 281
Travel Channel 282
Home +1 283
Home & Health +1 284

Discovery HD 250
Animal Planet HD 251
Discovery Science 252
Discovery Turbo 256
Discovery History 257
Discovery +1 258
Animal Planet +1 259
Discovery History +1 261

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Sorry I kept having to edit that, I kept seeing typos.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

JJ20X on ForumBox has found the information screens for the channel number changes. https://www.forumbox.co.uk/forum/thr...ork/?pageNo=12

Though they've clearly made a mistake, as there's a Good Food logo instead of a Food Network one, and Animal Planet HD is mentioned twice on two different numbers, so I've corrected channel name below, and I assumed the lower Animal Planet HD was the correct one.

Food Network 278
Home 279
Home & Health 280
Discovery Shed 281
Travel Channel 282
Home +1 283
Home & Health +1 284

Discovery HD 250
Animal Planet HD 251
Discovery Science 252
Discovery Turbo 256
Discovery History 257
Discovery +1 258
Animal Planet +1 259
Discovery History +1 261

Discovery Science +1 is not listed. Maybe Virgin will use Channel 260 for it.

[japitts]

One little side show that's not been mentioned, is the slight devaluation in Full-House/XL with HD channels being dropped down to lower packages.

But I guess the new TV strategy is for genre-based bundles containing all the channels, than the "bit of everything" as in the past.

There are times it's good to have the choice of an SD channel (being away from home for weeks at a time etc), but on the whole this is an extremely welcome move.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Discovery Science +1 is not listed. Maybe Virgin will use Channel 260 for it.

MB, it's already on 260. I only listed changes.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

MB, it's already on 260. I only listed changes.

We just seen that on TiVo.

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We see that new look has left room for more Discovery Channels to launch so maybe Discovery Turbo +1 and Food Network +1 will appear at an later date with Quest Red +1.

[Media Boy UK]

LIVE UPDATES:

1.50AM: It started TLC SD, Quest SD, Discovery Channel SD and Eurosport 1 SD has been removed from EPG.

2.07AM: This time - TLC HD, Quest HD, Discovery Channel HD, Animal Planet HD has all moved to their new homes plus Eurosport 2 SD has been removed from EPG.

2.20AM: Media Boy HQ feels that it for tonight all of the rest of rumoured Discovery channels being moved will happen next Tuesday (October 1st).

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More Discovery Channels set to move on Tuesday (October 1st)

-Quest Red moves to Channel 170.
-Discovery History moves to Channel 257.
-Discovery History +1 moves to Channel 261.

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Media Boy HQ thinks the following may happen as well on Tuesday:

Virgin Media UK may move ID from Virgin UK Channel 170 to Virgin UK Channel 168.
-Virgin Media UK may move Quest HD from Virgin UK Channel 172 to Virgin UK Channel 169.
-Virgin Media UK may move DMAX from Virgin UK Channel 213 to Virgin UK Channel 171.

[1701-e]

Eurosport 1 now on 523
Eurosport 2 now on 524

Channel IDs error


Surely that should read 521 and 522

[cheekyangus]

​I just looked, and all the HD moves have been made on the EPG successfully. It makes sense they didn't do all the other moves as they would be confusing doing all at once, plus some would have been former HD postions where they need to put a channel move slate.

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The logic of the moves seems to be, once finished, that in each of the categories, Entertainment, Factual, Lifestyle the order is HD channels top, then the channels in that category ordered by their main channels ratings, then repeat that order for any +1s available.

I compared the order with the August TV ratings (on BARB website) and it's pretty much going to reflect them within each category.

The channel moves have obviously been within the channel numbers that the broadcaster is already allocated, presumably so they don't offend the other broadcasters.

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I looked closer and all the HD channels that swapped are running on both their new numbers and their old numbers.

I'd bet that's because they were alerted to the errors on the channel information slates that were spotted last night, but it was too late to fix them in time.

Only the Eurosport changes have went completely successfully, probably partially because the HD versions were in the better EPG positions already.

[ScottishSteve]

The Sky & NBC channel number info slates have appeared listing the changes from October 1st

Others have been previously mentioned by Media Boy and others on this thread.

Sky News & Sky News HD will swap from 602-603 and vice versa

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I also wonder if we will maybe finally see
Sky Sports Racing HD

[cheekyangus]

The other obvious missing Sky/Comcast one is CNBC HD. If that happens it's likely to be a straight swap out. News/business channels tend to close their SD versions e.g. Bloomberg, NHK, France24 (both French & English versions).

[Media Boy UK]

Outwith the Sky & NBC channel number info slates appearing.

More channels from Discovery has been confirmed by slates as also moving on Tuesday:

ID moves to Channel 168.
Quest HD moves to Channel 169.
Quest Red moves to Channel 170.
DMAX moves to Channel 171.
Animal Planet HD moves to Channel 251.
Discovery Science moves to Channel 252.
Discovery Turbo moves to Channel 256.
Discovery History moves to Channel 257.
Discovery History +1 moves to Channel 261.
Food Network moves to Channel 278.
Home moves to Channel 279.
Discovery Home & Health moves to Channel 280.
Discovery Shed moves to Channel 281.
Travel Channel moves to Channel 282.

[cheekyangus]

MB, I've not seen the info slates for Sky/Comcast changes, are they on DBR? Or has someone posted them on another forum?

[Horizon]

No info slates yet, but the changes are in next week's tv mags as already mentioned here and elsewhere.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Horizon

No info slates yet, but the changes are in next week's tv mags as already mentioned here and elsewhere.

I'd already seen the posts regarding the info obtained by TV Listings magazines, I was wondering if someone had found the information slates and posted elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus

MB, I've not seen the info slates for Sky/Comcast changes, are they on DBR? Or has someone posted them on another forum?

I've found what I think is that answer. It's the differing usage of certain terminology.

The term in this case beign "information slate".

To me an "information slate", in digital cable TV context, is a full screen static image that replaces the broadcast channel.

However others are using it for the on-screen information that you press Clear to remove.

I would call those latter things pop-up overlays.

I came to the conclusion of the differing usage as I went to 602 and saw a pop-up overlay telling me Sky News (SD) would be moving to 603, and concluded this was what others were seeing but calling a different name.

[Tricky Trevor]

All these changes,I can hardly contain myself