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Sky closes four of the channels - the Bravo channels and Challenge Jackpot - that it had bought following its purchase of Virgin Media Television the previous year. [62] 1 February – Sky Atlantic launches. [63] [64] Channel One closes and its slot on Freeview is given to Challenge. Much of Channel One's programming moves to Sky's free-to-air ...
Showcase TV was a television channel in the United Kingdom currently run by Information TV [1] and is used to offer smaller specialist channels a place to showcase their programmes, sometimes leading to a full channel launch.
The channels were moved to a different location on the Sky EPG in July 2003. [7] In October, Red Hot Films was replaced with Red Hot Only 18. In February 2004, Red Hot Euro and Red Hot Films relaunched on the Sky EPG, expanding the network over to eight channels. [8] Another EPG change on 1 April 2005 led to several additions and removals.
Any channel which can get carriage on a suitable beam of a satellite at 28° East is entitled to access to Sky's EPG for a fee, ranging from £15–100,000. Third-party channels which opt for encryption receive discounts ranging from reduced price to free EPG entries, free carriage on a Sky leased transponder or actual payment for being carried.
Temporarily closed to free Sky EPG slots for the BBC's Olympics channels. Channels 714 – 731 returned on 16 August 2012. — — 881 — Pub Channel BSkyB 2012-07-02 Temporarily closed to free Sky EPG slots for the BBC's Olympics channels. Returned on 15 August 2012. — — 211 — Bio. HD: A+E Networks UK (A+E Networks/BSkyB) 2012-07-03
In 1981, United Video Satellite Group launched the first EPG service in North America, a cable channel known simply as The Electronic Program Guide.It allowed cable systems in the United States and Canada to provide on-screen listings to their subscribers 24 hours a day (displaying programming information up to 90 minutes in advance) on a dedicated cable channel.
Freesat from Sky (FsfS) was a British satellite television service from Sky UK. It offered over 240 free-to-air (FTA) channels in its EPG. [1] This is a greater number than its competitors, Freesat, which has 200+, and Freeview, which has 70+. It also had up to six HD channels and used to have Sky Active interactive data service. Sky was not ...
The channel became a general entertainment channel and was moved to the entertainment section of Sky's EPG at channel 126, with MTV +1 moving to 160. The move resulted in an increase in the channel's audience share of nearly 150% in the 6 weeks after the change, while viewing was down nearly 20% on Virgin Media during the same period, where the ...