Temporary Rebrands:

- 2 kids channels with promotional rebrands.

Housekeeping - SD to HD Conversion:

ID   405 Boomerang - Moved from TSID 4 SID 418 to TSID 7 SID 701

ID 1469 Cartoonito   - Moved from TSID 5 SID 525 to TSID 7 SID 702

- HD Flags added.

- SDT root flags show that these services are not currently encrypted. An interim stage during housekeeping changes.

These services are now available in HD. 

 

 

Service Removal:

TSID  2  SID  221 - ID 1385 Sky News  -  Placeholder - Inactive.

This placeholder service has been removed after preserving recordings for 100 days.

 

 

Temporary Rebrand:

- 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.

 

 

 

Subsequent changes:

 

Housekeeping - SDT Root Flags:

ID   405 Boomerang 

ID 1469 Cartoonito

- SDT root flags show that encryption has been restored for these services.

Encryption restored following the housekeeping changes necessary to upgrade the services to HD.  

 

 

Transport stream and service IDs are for traditional cable networks.  

During the evening:

 

General Housekeeping: 

TSID 7 SIDs 701 & 702  -  Not in the NIT / SDT.

- PMTs and video stream (vPID 101) removed. 

The slates usually associated with inactive transport streams were removed, presumably as the transport stream is now carrying a HD service.

FAST Channels - Housekeeping:

TSID 8 SID 851 - ID 2331 Hell's Kitchen  -  FAST Channel Portal - SDT Only.

TSID 8 SID 852 - ID 2332 Egg Heads  -  FAST Channel Portal - SDT Only.

- Removed from the NIT of 3 Internal Networks. 

- ID 2331 Hell's Kitchen moved from SID 802 to placeholder SID 851.

- ID 2332 Egg Heads moved from SID 806 to placeholder SID 852.

- SDT root flags changed to indicate that these services are not encrypted and not running. 

New Services - Pre-launch Configuration:

TSID 8 SID 802 - ID 2353 Mythbusters  -  FAST Channel Portal - SDT Only

TSID 8 SID 806 - ID 2354 Tipping Point  -  FAST Channel Portal - SDT Only

- Pre-launch EPG slot allocation for Mythbusters - channel 233. Channel numbers are subject to change.

- Pre-launch EPG slot allocation for Tipping Point - channel 253. Channel numbers are subject to change.

- SDT root flags show that these services are running and not encrypted.

- Marked as the Entertainment genre.

- Flagged as HD.

- Subscription codes added for M / Player / Mixit and above and for the basic, inclusive channels, pack for Stream devices.

- The 4K version of the subscription codes has been used for traditional networks to block access to legacy TiVo devices.

Elementary streams (video, audio etc) are already present but still carrying the Hell's Kitchen & Egg Heads logos. 

 

Mythbusters has been provisionally assigned channel 233 which has been released by the removal of Hell's Kitchen although the channel 233 assignment still hasn't changed for Hell's Kitchen.

 

Tipping Point has been provisionally assigned channel 253 which has been released by the removal of Egg Heads although the channel 253 assignment still hasn't changed for Egg Heads.

 

 

Transport stream and service IDs are for traditional cable networks. 

Temporary Rebrands:

- 2 movie channels with promotional rebrands.

- 1 movie channel reverting to its usual name following a promotional rebrand.

 Renamed Service:

Channel	ID-Ref		Old Service Name	New Service Name	Annotation
923	549		Gold	Gold Radio.	V6+Tivo-EPG - TV360-Radio App

 - The short EPG name is the same as the new service name.

The full stop is actually included in the new service name which is unusual.

New Service - Launch:

ID 2352 CNN HD  

- Added to remaining networks - now visible on channel 626.

- Subscription code added for an unspecified pack (not marketed).

Service Launch.

 

 

Housekeeping - SD to HD Conversion:

ID 1574 PBS America 

- Moved from TSID 21 SID 2108 to TSID 24 SID 2409 on traditional cable networks.

- HD Flag added.

Service now available in HD on channel 187.

Service Removal:

ID 1387 Sky Arts  -  Placeholder - End of Service.

- Was TSID 10 SID 1005 on traditional cable networks.

This placeholder service has been removed after preserving recordings for 92 days.

 

 

Temporary Rebrand: 

- An early seasonal rebrand as GREAT! romance becomes GREAT! Christmas (G! Xmas).

Virgin TV seem to have not preserved Narrative Entertainment's usual, stylised, lack of capitalisation (in the second half of the name) for their service name and short EPG name.

Housekeeping - Placeholder SID:

ID 2169 Eurosport 3 HD  -  Placeholder - End of Service - Pop Up Service

- Moved from SID 703 to placeholder SID 753.

Clearing the way for CNN HD to re-use the released SID 703.

The remaining Eurosport HD pop up channels have not moved to placeholder SIDs at this point.

 

 

Service Removal - Failed Launch:

ID 2349 Aaj Tak  -  Internal Networks Only.

- Was TSID 3 SID 311 on traditional cable networks.

This service has been removed after failing to launch on Virgin TV.

 

New Service - Pre-launch Configuration:

ID 2352 CNN HD  -  Internal Networks Only.

- Added to TSID 7 SID 703 on traditional cable networks. Taking the SID released by Eurosport 3 HD.

- Pre-launch EPG slot allocation - channel 626. Channel numbers are subject to change.

- Added to 5 internal networks often used for pre-launch configuration.

   - Code Download Test (Portsmouth)

   - NGRHEE Bromley

   - NGRHEE Knowsley

   - TTA Bromley DMC (Bromley RHE)

   - TTA Knowsley DMC (Hayes_RHE)

- SDT root flags show that the service is running and encrypted.

- Marked as the News genre.

- Flagged as HD.

- Subscription codes added for M / Player / Mixit and above and for the basic, inclusive channels, pack for Stream devices.

Elementary streams (video, audio etc) have already been added. 

CNN HD has been provisionally assigned channel 626 which has been released by the removal of Aaj Tak.

In recent times, TSID 7 has been reserved for pop-up channels.

 

Note:

USID 2351 has not yet been allocated.

Housekeeping:

TSID 9 SID 901  -  ID 1525 SptsETV01   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 902  -  ID 1526 SptsETV02   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 903  -  ID 1527 SptsETV03   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

- PMTs and elementary streams (video, audio etc) were restored for these three services.  

- Now using MPEG4 video, the original video streams were MPEG2.

 

 

Added to Sky Sports SD Pack:

ID 1525 SptsETV01   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

ID 1526 SptsETV02   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

ID 1527 SptsETV03   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

ID 9315 Hidden 4501   - Inactive Transport Stream Marker

- Existing subscription pack override codes removed

- Subscription Pack Codes added for Sky Sports SD

The above services have had a change of subscription code data. 

The SptsETV channels are normally linked with Sky Sports interactive red button services but the elementary streams (video, audio etc) for these were removed yesterday.

Hidden 4501 is a just a marker for an inactive transport stream (TSID 45) - as such it isn't expected that this will be be linked to an actual service. 

 

SDT Root Flags - encryption added:

ID 1525 SptsETV01   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

ID 1526 SptsETV02   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

ID 1527 SptsETV03   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

SDT root flags for the above were changed to indicate that encryption had been added.

 

 

SDT Root Flags - encryption removed:

ID 2062 SptsETVMain   - Red Button Service - Internal Networks Only (Deprecated)

SDT root flags for this service were changed to indicate that encryption had been removed.

Temporary Rebrands:

- Seasonal rebrand with Sky Sports Action channels renamed Sky Sports NFL.

End of a Free to View Period:

Channel 551  -  ID 1761 Premier Sports 1

Channel 552  -  ID 1961 Premier Sports 2

- Subscription Pack FTV override codes removed. 

Channel availability reverting to premium subscribers only.

 

 

Temporary Rebrands:

- 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand.

- 1 kids channel with a promotional rebrand.

- 1 movie channel reverting to its usual name following a promotional rebrand.

- 1 kids channel reverting to its usual name following a promotional rebrand. 

During The Day:

Housekeeping:

TSID 6 SID 605  -  ID 2043 Meet The Babes   - Remnants

TSID 9 SID 901  -  ID 1525 SptsETV01   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 902  -  ID 1526 SptsETV02   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 903  -  ID 1527 SptsETV03   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 904  -  ID 1528 SptsETV04   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 905  -  ID 1529 SptsETV05   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 906  -  ID 1530 SptsETV06   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 907  -  ID 1531 SptsETV07   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 908  -  ID 1532 SptsETV08   - Red Button Service - Not on Stream

TSID 9 SID 910  -  ID 2062 SptsETVmain   - Red Button Service - Internal Networks Only

- PMTs and elementary streams (video, audio etc) were removed during the day.