New UK La Liga rights announcement expected soon Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, Spain’s top-flight soccer body, has confirmed a new TV rights deal for the UK and Ireland will be signed before the next round of fixtures, … Continue reading →
Good Food channel to close soon The Good Food channel is closing down on the 13th September 2019, according to new owners Discovery. Good Food programmes will moved to The Food Network, also owned by Discovery.
Continue reading →Viacom threatening to pull its channels from Virgin Media in Carriage fee dispute Viacom, which owns Channel 5, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and VH-1 were threatened with a blackout on Virgin Media over the weekend, due to a carriage fee … Continue reading →
Sky to launch two new channels – Crime and Comedy Sky has announced plans for two new channels, Sky Crime and Sky Comedy These will be added to the Sky Entertainment package.
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I am still getting one or two calls about Freesat boxes not receiving the BBC HD channels, when they used to. I did mention this back in December – https://www.satandpcguy.com/2018/12/09/recently-lost-bbc-hd-channels-on-freesat-then-read-this/ This issue was down to changes made to the BBC … Continue reading →
La Liga UK TV Rights…deal done, for the first three weeks only The continuing saga of La Liga rights in the UK continues. Broadcast rights for La Liga for the next three seasons had failed to sell, threatening a television … Continue reading →
CNN HD change of frequency CNN HD has changed frequencies on the Astra 2 UK TV satellites. Sky and Freesat boxes will have automatically updated to the new frequency. For other satellite receivers, like GI, Iberosat, Vu, Ariva, etc you … Continue reading →
Mass cull of expat Sky cards… According to reports Sky have, last week and this week, switched off many Sky cards being used by expats to view UK TV. Many people have seen a loss of access to the Sky … Continue reading →
La Liga on UK TV: “no satisfactory bids were received” With less than a month to kick off, Spain’s La Liga has failed to find a home for its U.K. and Ireland broadcasting rights. La Liga issued notice on Tuesday … Continue reading →
Sony Rebranding their channels again in September. On Tuesday 10th September, Sony Pictures Television will be rebrand, again, their free-to-air portfolio of channels. True Entertainment will become Sony Channel. Its current mix of aging US dramas will be enhanced with … Continue reading →
Britbox, from BBC and ITV, to launch later this year. BBC and ITV’s new UK streaming subscription service BritBox will launch later this year at £5.99 a month, the broadcasters haveconfirmed today. The new service, which has been described as … Continue reading →
TCM HD to close on Sky Turner Classic Movies, TCM, will cease the transmission of their HD channel on Sky next week. On 25th July 2019, TCM HD will cease to be broadcast on Sky channel 315. However, viewers will … Continue reading →
Discovery Channel Number Changes in July 2019 Discovery is to shuffle some of its channels numbers on Sky. Most of these changes are due to the recent acquisition of three UKTV channels (Good Food, Really and Home) and in the … Continue reading →
Live Cricket back on the BBC from 2020 In light of England winning the Cricket World Cup yesterday, with a peak of over 8million watching on Channel 4 and Sky Sports, a reminder that English international and domestic cricket will … Continue reading →
Cricket World Cup final between England and New Zealand live and free on Channel 4 The Cricket World Cup final between England and New Zealand is to be broadcast live and free on Channel 4, in a deal with Sky. … Continue reading →