Renamed / Relaunched Service :

ID 1767 London TV  - London only

- Previously London Live

This channel has been renamed and relaunched following a change of ownership.

 

 

Temporary Rebrand:

- 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.

Temporary Rebrands:

- 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.

 

Note: a further movie channel reverting to its usual name following a promotional rebrand has NOT been updated by Virgin TV.

Pop-up channel launch:

ID 2176 Eurosport UHD  -  Pop Up Service

- Added to the NIT of all remaining networks.

This channel is now visible on channel 523 on customer boxes in readiness for coverage of the Australian Open.

Temporary Rebrands:

- That's Christmas becomes That's TV 3 following a seasonal rebrand - prior to the rebrand, Virgin TV had held on to the That's Memories name, so this is the first time the That's TV 3 name has been used on Virgin TV.

Temporary Rebrands:

- 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.

- 3 sports channels reverting to their usual names following promotional rebrands. (Note: 2 channels on Stream as it doesn't carry the Sky Sports SD channels). 

- GREAT! romance reverting to its usual name following a seasonal rebrand - updated by Virgin TV 1 day ahead of the scheduled change.

New Service - Launch:

ID 2360 Cruise1st.tv

- Added to the NIT of remaining networks.

This service has now launched and is visible to all customers on channel 758.

 

 

Temporary Rebrands:

- Movies 24 & Movies 24+ reverting to their usual names following seasonal rebrands.

Changes to SDT root flags:

ID 2176 Eurosport UHD  -  Pop Up Service - Internal Networks Only 

ID 2361 Love Pets  -  Internal Networks Only 

- SDT root flags updated to show that these services are running and encrypted - encryption added.  

Note: still not visible to users on residential networks.

 

 

Changes to pre-launch configurations:

 

ID 2176 Eurosport UHD  -  Pop Up Service - Internal Networks Only 

- Now visible on the EPG on various internal networks - Hide1 flag removed.

- End of Service and Placeholder flags removed.

- Removed from the NIT of all but 3 networks often used for pre-launch configurations.

   - Code Download Test (Portsmouth)

   - NGRHEE Bromley

   - TTA Knowsley DMC (Hayes_RHE)

 

ID 2361 Love Pets  -  Internal Networks Only

- Now visible on the EPG on various internal networks - Hide1 flag removed.

- Provisional channel number changed from 243 to 248.
 

 

Note:

No monitoring took place on this date and these changes were picked up on the 5th of January

The Eurosport UHD & Love Pets changes have been recorded as January 4th as the elementary streams were added on January 3rd and these changes are generally picked up on the overnight scan following these changes.