FAO: British Sky TV Users

[Réiteoir]

These will be the new channel numbers when sky revamps its epg within the next month.

Entertainment
101 BBC1 / RTE1
102 BBC2 / RTE2
103 ITV1 / TV3
104 Channel 4/TG4/S4C
105 five
106 Sky One
107 Sky Two
108 Sky Three
109 UKTV Gold
110 UKTV Gold +1
111 UKTVG2
112 LIVINGtv
113 LIVINGtv +1
114 LIVINGtv2
115 BBC THREE
116 BBC FOUR
117 Channel 4
118 ITV2
119 ITV3
120 ITV4
121 Challenge
122 Challenge +1
124 Bravo
125 Bravo +1
126 ParaComedy1
127 ParaComedy +1
128 ParaComedy2
129 Sci-Fi
131 Men & Motors
133 UKTV Drama
135 S4C Digidol
137 Life TV
138 Life2
139 LifeShowcase
140 E4
141 E4+1
142 More4
143 BBC 1 (ROI)
144 BBC 2 (ROI)
146 You TV
148 BEN
150 Reality TV
151 Reality TV+1
153 Hallmark
155 E!
157 Ftn
159 OBE
161 Biography
163 Hollywood TV
165 Bonanza
169 UKTVG2+1
173 Open Access 2
175 RTE1
176 RTE2
177 TG4
179 FX
180 FX+
181 Information TV
183 Passion TV
185 abc1
187 Raj TV
189 More4 +1
193 Rapture TV
195 Propeller
971 BBC 1 Scotland
972 BBC 1 Wales
973 BBC 1 NI
974 BBC 1 London
975 BBC 1 NE & C
976 BBC 1 Yorks
977 BBC 1 Yrks&Lin
978 BBC 1 N West
979 BBC 1 W Mids
980 BBC 1 E Mids
981 BBC 1 East (E)
982 BBC 1 East (W)
983 BBC 1 S East
984 BBC 1 South
985 BBC 1 Oxford
986 BBC 1 West
987 BBC 1 S West
988 BBC 1 Cl
989 BBC 2 England
990 BBC 2 Scotland
991 BBC 2 W
992 BBC 2 NI
993 ITV1 (AD)
994 Channel 4 (AD)
996 Chl Line-up*
998 Sky Welcome*
999 Sky Cust Ch*

Lifestyle & Culture
250 Disc.RealTime
251 Disc RT +1
252 Disc RT Extra
253 Sky Travel
254 Sky Travel +1
255 Sky Trvl Extra
256 UKTV Style
257 UKTV Style +1
258 UKTV S Garden
259 UKTV Food
260 UKTV Food +1
261 Travel Channel
262 Travel Ch +1
264 DiscHome&H
265 Disc H&H +1
267 Artsworld
269 UKTV Br't Ideas
271 Performance
273 Fashion TV
275 Majestic TV
277 LONDON TV
279 Real Estate TV
281 Wine TV
283 Disc T&L
285 Baby Channel

Movies
301 Sky Movies 1
302 Sky Movies 2
303 Sky Movies 3
304 Sky Movies 4
305 Sky Movies 5
306 Sky Movies 6
307 Sky Movies 7
308 Sky Movies 8
309 Sky Movies 9
310 Sky Movies 10
313 Sky Cinema 1
314 Sky Cinema 2
315 Film Four
316 Film Four+1
317 FilmFourWeekly
319 TCM
321 HorrorChannel
323 True Movies
325 matineemovies
327 bad movies
700 Sky Box Office
701 Sky Box Office
702 Sky Box Office
703 Sky Box Office
704 Sky Box Office
705 Sky Box Office
706 Sky Box Office
707 Sky Box Office
708 Sky Box Office
709 Sky Box Office
710 Sky Box Office
711 Sky Box Office
712 Sky Box Office
713 Sky Box Office
714 Sky Box Office
715 Sky Box Office
716 Sky Box Office
717 Sky Box Office
718 Sky Box Office
719 Sky Box Office
720 Sky Box Office
721 Sky Box Office
722 Sky Box Office
723 Sky Box Office
724 Sky Box Office
725 Sky Box Office
726 Sky Box Office
727 Sky Box Office
728 Sky Box Office
729 Sky Box Office
730 Sky Box Office
731 Sky Box Office
732 Sky Box Office
733 Sky Box Office
734 Sky Box Office
735 Sky Box Office
736 Sky Box Office
737 Sky Box Office
738 Sky Box Office
739 Sky Box Office
740 Sky Box Office
741 Sky Box Office
742 Sky Box Office
743 Sky Box Office
744 Sky Box Office
745 Sky Box Office
746 Sky Box Office
747 Sky Box Office
748 Sky Box Office
749 Sky Box Office
750 Sky Box Office
751 Sky Box Office
752 Sky Box Office
755 Sky Box Office

Music
340 MTV
341 VH1
342 MTV Hits
343 MTV Base
344 MTV Dance
345 MTV2
346 VH2
347 VH1 Classic
348 TMF
349 The Box
350 KISS
351 Smash Hits!
352 Magic
353 Q
354 Kerrang!
355 Chart Show TV
356 The Vault
357 B4
358 The Hits
359 Classic FM TV
360 Channel U
361 Fizz
362 The Amp
364 Scuzz
366 Flaunt
368 Musicians Ch.
395 Music Choice
396 Music Choice

Sports
401 Sky Sports 1
402 Sky Sports 2
403 Sky Sports 3
404 Sky Sports Xtra
406 MUTV
408 Sky Spts News
410 Eurosport UK
411 Eurosport2 UK
413 Motors TV
415 At The Races
417 NASN
419 Extreme Sports
421 Chelsea TV
423 Golf Channel
425 Channel 425
427 TWC
429 Setanta Sports1
430 Setanta Sports2
432 Racing UK
434 Setanta Ireland
436 Celtic TV
438 Rangers TV
440 Sport Nation
480 PremPlus
481 Setanta PPV1
482 Setanta PPV2

News
501 Sky News
502 Bloomberg
503 BBC NEWS 24
504 BBC PARL'MNT
505 CNBC
506 CNN
507 S4C~2
509 EuroNews
510 FOX News
511 CCTV-9
512 SAW
513 NDTV 24x7

Documentaries
520 Discovery
521 Discovery+1hr
522 Civilisation
523 Science
524 Disc. Wings
526 National Geo
527 National Geo+
528 Adventure One
529 History
530 History+1
532 UKTV Docs
533 UKTV Docs+1
534 UKTV People
535 Animal Planet
536 Animal Plnt+
537 UKTV History
538 UKTV H'tory+1
539 Community Chnl
541 UKTV People +1

Kids
601 Cartoon Netwrk
602 Cartoon Nwk +
603 Boomerang
604 Nickelodeon
605 Nick Replay
606 Nicktoons
607 Trouble
608 Trouble Reload
609 Jetix
610 Jetix +1
611 Disney Chnl
612 Disney Chnl +1
613 Toon Disney
614 Playhse Disney
615 Disc. Kids
616 CBBC Channel
617 CBeebies
618 Nick Jr.
619 POP
620 Tiny Pop
621 Toonami

Shopping
630 QVC
631 iBuy TV
632 iBuy TV2
633 TV SHOP
634 Ideal World
635 price-drop tv
636 Pitch TV
637 Thomson TV
638 Simply Shop.
639 Best Direct
640 Superstore TV
641 Simply Ideas
642 Shop Vector
643 TV Warehouse
644 bid tv
645 Thomas Cook
646 Gems.tv
647 Pitch TV Plus
648 Best Direct+
649 Shop on TV
650 Thane Direct
651 TVW Select
652 Vector 24/7
653 Stop + Shop
654 YES
655 speedauctiontv
656 Myphone.tv
657 eeZee tv
658 Vitality
659 SkyTravelShop
660 Gems.tv 2
661 Create & Craft
662 Teletext Hols
663 Broadband UK
664 Golf Pro-Shop
665 We Deliver TV
666 Max TV
667 OneTV
670 Choices UK TV
671 Star Bazaar TV
672 GDTV
673 2ShopTV
674 treasures.tv

Religion
760 GOD Channel
761 GOD 2
762 Wonderful
763 TBN Europe
764 DAYSTAR
765 revelation
766 UCB TV
767 INI
768 LOVEWORLD TV
769 EWTN
770 Gospel Channel
771 DoveVision TV

International
780 B4U Movies
781 B4U Music
782 Sony TV Asia
783 STAR News
784 STAR Plus
785 PCNE Chinese
786 VECTONE Urdu
787 mta-muslim tv
788 Zee TV
789 Zee Music
790 Zee Cinema
791 Bangla TV
792 ARY Digital
793 MATV National
794 VectoneBusines
795 PTV Prime
796 VECTONE Tamil
797 SouthForYou
798 AlphaEtcPun
799 Al Jazeera
800 Vectone Bangla
801 DW-TV
802 TVEi
803 Vectone Punjab
804 Abu Dhabi TV
805 TV5
806 MAX
807 ATN Global
808 Aastha TV
809 Apna Bazaar
810 Record TV
811 Vectone Sinhla
812 Barablu
813 Islam Channel
814 Channel `S'
815 GEO UK
816 Zee Gujarati
817 DM Digital
818 ATN Bangla

Gaming and Dating
840 iPlay
841 AVAGO
842 Quiz Nation
843 PokerZone
844 Poker Channel
845 Sky Vegas Live
847 Vegas 24/7
848 Jackpot TV
849 Big Game TV!
850 YouPlay TV
851 Your TV
852 Quiz TV
853 Quiz Call
870 Dating Channel
871 Gay Date TV
872 Look4Love TV
873 Gay Network
874 Chat Box

Specialist
880 Teachers' tv
881 Pub Channel
882 Sky Venue
883 Open Access
884 Audi Channel
899 Sky Cust Ch*

Adult
900 Playboy TV
901 Adult Channel
902 Spice Extreme
903 TelevisionX
904 Television X2
905 Television X3
906 Game Network
908 FriendlyTV
909 L!VE TV
910 Get Lucky TV
911 Lucky Star
912 Playboy One
913 You TV2
914 You TV2 Extra
915 Turn On TV
920 Climax3 - 1
921 Climax3 - 2
922 Climax3 - 3
923 SportxxxBabes
924 Red Hot R
925 RH 40+ Wives
926 red hot amateur
927 RedHot All Girl
928 Red Hot Wives
929 Red Hot Climax
930 Red Hot only 18
931 Red Hot Movies
932 XPLICITXXX
933 Playboy TV
934 Adult Channel
935 Spice Extreme
936 Hustler TV UK
937 100% Babes
938 XXX TV
939 Amateur Babes
940 Gay TV
941 18PlusXXX
942 XXXHousewive
943 Live XXX TV
944 18 Plus Movies
945 18 Plus Movies
946 18 Plus Movies
947 18 Plus Movies
948 18 Plus Movies
949 18 Plus Movies
950 18 Plus Movies
970 Sky Cust Ch

Radio
0101 BBC R1
0102 BBC R2
0103 BBC R3
0104 BBC R4 FM
0105 BBC R5 Live
0106 Classic FM
0107 Virgin Radio
0108 talkSPORT
0109 Classic Gold
0110 Chill
0111 Planet Rock
0112 Core
0113 Capital Gold
0114 XFM
0115 BBC World Sv.
0116 BBC R Scot.
0117 BBC R Wales
0118 BBC R Ulster
0119 BBC Asian Nt.
0120 BBC 6 Music
0121 The Mix
0122 WRN Europe
0123 Premier
0124 Heart
0125 UCB Europe
0126 crossrhythm
0127 Oneword
0128 smooth fm
0129 Solar Radio
0130 Panjab Radio
0131 BBC 7
0132 Prime Time
0133 Sunrise Radio
0134 UCB Bible
0135 UCB Talk
0136 UCB Insp
0137 1Xtra BBC
0138 TWR
0139 BBC R n Gael
0140 Pure Dance
0141 Raaj Radio
0142 RTE Europe
0143 BBC R4 LW
0144 BBC 5L SportX
0145 Club Asia
0146 Real Radio
0147 EWTN
0150 Sukh Sagar
0151 Asian Gold
0152 BBC R London
0153 The Villan
0154 BBC R Cymru
0155 Pulse Rated
0156 CalvaryRadio
0157 Globecast
0158 Gaydar Radio
0159 Family Radio
0160 RTE Radio 1
0161 Arrow-Rock
0162 CapitalDisney
0163 Apple FM
0164 RTE 2FM
0165 RTE Lyric fm
0166 RTE RnaG
0167 jazz fm
0168 Akash Radio
0169 Desi Radio
0170 The Hits
0171 Galaxy
0172 Smash Hits
0173 Kismat Radio
0174 Century Radio
0175 Capital
0176 Amrit Bani
0177 LBC 97.3
0178 Kiss
0179 Heat
0180 Magic
0181 Q
0182 MOJO
0183 Kerrang
0184 Radio
0185 Spectrum 1
0186 Liberty
0187 Yarr Radio
0188 On Air
0189 Choice FM
0190 Radio London

101 BBC1 / RTE1
102 BBC2 / RTE2
103 ITV1 / TV3
104 Channel 4/TG4/S4C

175 RTE1
176 RTE2
177 TG4

hmm - interesting - RTÉ get two seperate blocks of numbers - looks like that they are finally opening up and broadcasting on Sky in the UK

No seperate TV3 however - looks like the UK lot will miss out on eircom League Weekly

[Macy]

hmm - interesting - RTÉ get two seperate blocks of numbers - looks like that they are finally opening up and broadcasting on Sky in the UK

The second block is the RTE numbers on the Northern EPG, and I think they block all the sport on that even.

They won't be on the UK EPG anytime soon. All talk of an RTE news channel seems to have dried up as well.

RTE1 should go FTA, with all contentious rights issues on RTE2.

There is no reason for TV3 not being FTA now ITV is - I suppose it'll depend on who buys out Canwest. Could well see ITV1 Ireland FTA soon.

Interestingly ITV3 and ITV4 off the Irish EPG from yesterday - whatever is going on there.

[Aberdonian Stu]

The problem with contentious rights issues Macy is that covers a whole wad of things (including movies, dramas, documentaries, lifestyle programming etc) and not just sports. While in principle these are all transferable to RTE 2 the subsequent problems caused with schedule priority and format would make things just look messy especially in the daytime and primetime slots.

[noby]

re:ITV3 &4, I hadn't noticed, as I use the UK epg, to avoid the dreaded 'other channels'. I wonder will this change now. i.e. will BBC3 & 4 be on the irish epg?

I'm using a sky box to get fta channels, so will I be upgraded too? (not a subscriber)

[sligoman]

Adult channels

hehehe

*makes mental note of numbers*

[Macy]

The problem with contentious rights issues Macy is that covers a whole wad of things (including movies, dramas, documentaries, lifestyle programming etc) and not just sports. While in principle these are all transferable to RTE 2 the subsequent problems caused with schedule priority and format would make things just look messy especially in the daytime and primetime slots.

There isn't too many on RTE1 anyway. West Wing (soon to finish) and the Wednesday movie are the only one's I can think of. Think of an evening's schedule...
Afternoon Show - RTE Production
The Bill - Old repeats (FTA on ITV3)
Doctors - Old repeats (FTA on BBC1)
Six One - RTE Production
Nationwide - RTE Production
Eastenders - FTA BBC1 (may loose the couple of minutes early start) or Rachel's Favourite food or something crap like it - RTE Production
Fair City - RTE Production
About the House, Health Squad, basically some RTE Production
9 O'Clock News - RTE Production
Prime Time - RTE Production
True Lives/ Chain Reactions etc Usually RTE Production

That's the usual day I reckon (open to correction though) - no idea what's on before or after that. Is it Dr Phil or Opra or some other rubbish earlier in the day? Weekend is generally old imports, old movies (even the saturday night one generally old). Very little contentious on RTE1 imo.

The only thing stopping it isn't major rescheduling, it's the crap contract RTE signed with Sky.

RTE1 FTA would give everyone in Ireland RTE1 in widescreen with digital quality without the need to pay sky a sub. It would also give the Irish in the UK/Europe the opportunity to keep abreast of developments at home. Only thing missing is sport, which is never going to happen anyway with Setanta with UK rights.

btw The above is what the UK Irish press should be campaigning for. It would be relatively cheap to do for RTE (epg placement only) and start campaigning now with RTE's contract due to end in 2008.

I personally think it's a waste of time campaigning for the RTE2 and TG4 as they simply buy in too much programming and it would cost RTE millions, plus the sports rights they have.

They should also be targetting TV3, as no reason for that not to be FTA since ITV went that way as they have virtually the same content. It would at least give the expats some news content from Ireland.

[Block G Raptor]

Im a Bit confused is this the channel line up for uk or Ireland subscribers
Does it mean i'll be able to see ITV1

[Poor Student]

You'd think they'd pull MUTV out from between Sky Sports Extra and Sky Sports News while they're at it. It's always a pain when sifting through those channels. It's gonna take a wee bit of getting used to. Are they dumping all that garbage that was in the 200's?

[Macy]

Im a Bit confused is this the channel line up for uk or Ireland subscribers
Does it mean i'll be able to see ITV1

That's the UK line up, ITV1 not on the Irish epg (but is available through other channels).

[Hulsey]

Bit stupid to chance all the station numbers. Its gonna be a right pain in the arsenal getting used to them.

[Macy]

Bit stupid to chance all the station numbers. Its gonna be a right pain in the arsenal getting used to them.

The main reason was to re-catogorise. Much better that the "text and t*ts" stations are out of the way with Adult rather than clogging up Entertainment. They were running out of room so had to get the radio stations out of the 101-999 range to free up space.

[Risteard]

Very good.
Looking forward to Channel 4 and five.
Pity that they got rid of ITV news and that they don't have english al-jazeera.

[noby]

Very good.
Looking forward to Channel 4 and five.
Pity that they got rid of ITV news and that they don't have english al-jazeera.

This is only a sw update/re-organising of the epg. You won't get any new channels.

Oh, and sky didn't get rid of ITVnews. That channel ceased to exist.

[drinkfeckarse]

Are they dumping all that garbage that was in the 200's?

90% of the whole package is garbage nevermind the 200's.

[hamish]

hehehe

*makes mental note of numbers*

This might surprise you amigo but the first thing I did when the Sky revamp happened is remove those channels. You can do that now.

I got Sky for the footie, docs and movies TBH but it irks the hell out of me that I'm putting money in Murdoch's pocket - however small my actual amount is.

One good thing is that he doesn't have full control over BSkyB so they have a little bit of independence. Otherwise his plans to turn Sky News into another Fox "News" would have happened - poor enough as Sky News is too.

I look forward to when the likes of Setanta and others will bid for the History, Nat. Geography etc channels, footie and movie channels. Then I will happily dump Sky.

Anyone p!ssed off at the Sky+ box? - far too often it won't pause etc. I see Private Eye mentioned that this was happening all over the UK as well.

90% of the whole package is garbage nevermind the 200's.

True - what a pity we can't delete all those sh!te channels like we can delete those adult channels. The growth of those (very profitable) gambling channels has been huge but I read lately that Sky are cramming so many channels into a limited bandwidth** that it's affecting the quality of the pictures.

**whatever that is technically I have a rough idea that satellite can accomodate X number of channels and that the more squeezed in the poorer the picture

[dahamsta]

Big discussion on Boards about the removal of ITV 3 & 4 from the Irish EPG; and the dropping of ITV listings in UK papers and magazines.

adam

[hamish]

Big discussion on Boards about the removal of ITV 3 & 4 from the Irish EPG; and the dropping of ITV listings in UK papers and magazines.

adam

Dahamsta - I presume you merged my two quotes - thanks for that. Despite the best efforts of other Footypersons, I just can't get the hang of how to do that.

To paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being dumb"

[Poor Student]

The growth of those (very profitable) gambling channels has been huge

Speaking of which, what is the deal with those virtual horse races?

Hamish how will you survive without bikini beach? You've been attributing it for expanding your vocabularly.

[dcfc_1928]

The Live Pause bug is a bit of a pain the ar*e - but that is supposedly being addressed with the latest software upgrade (should happen this month).

Overall though, sky+ is a FANTASTIC product. I've only had it since November but I am a total convert.

Anyone p!ssed off at the Sky+ box? - far too often it won't pause etc. I see Private Eye mentioned that this was happening all over the UK as well.

[Macy]

The Live Pause bug is a bit of a pain the ar*e - but that is supposedly being addressed with the latest software upgrade (should happen this month).

Overall though, sky+ is a FANTASTIC product. I've only had it since November but I am a total convert.

PVR's are great, just the sky plus boxes (just like the normal digiboxes) are poor examples of the technology. And why do you have to pay to use them? It's a pity the EU couldn't force sky/nds to produce cams that would allow non sky boxes to work with sky subs.

I'm setting up a PC as a PVR. Already have a terrestrial PC card, just waiting to get my quad lnb and then sat card. My DVD player plays mpg files direct, so don't even have to convert my recordings, so memory never an issue either.