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. Monday, 6 January 2025
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.
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Saturday, 4 January 2025
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.
Friday, 3 January 2025
New Service - Pre-launch Configuration:
ID 2361 Love Pets - Internal Networks Only
- Added to TSID 21 SID 2104 on traditional cable networks.
- The short EPG Name is the same.
- Pre-launch EPG slot allocation - channel 243. Channel numbers are subject to change.
- SDT root flags show that this service is running and not encrypted.
- Marked as the Entertainment genre.
- Marked as HD.
- Hidden from the EPG. - Hide1 flag applied.
- Subscription codes added for Stream Inclusive (Free) channels & the 4K versions of all legacy subscription codes for M / Player / Mixit and above.
- Added to 3 internal networks often used for pre-launch configuration. - Code Download Test (Portsmouth)
- NGRHEE Bromley
- TTA Knowsley DMC (Hayes_RHE)
- PMTs and elementary streams had not been added when checked. Although hidden from the EPG this isn't really necessary as the service isn't in the NIT of customer facing networks.
Housekeeping Changes - added during the day:
ID 2176 Eurosport UHD - Pop Up Service - Internal Networks Only
- PMTs and elementary streams added to TSID 514 SID 1419 on traditional cable networks.
ID 2361 Love Pets - FAST Channel Portal - Internal Networks Only
- PMTs and elementary streams added added to TSID 21 SID 2104 on traditional cable networks. Thursday, 2 January 2025
End of a Free To View period:
Channel 175 - ID 2033 Virgin TV Ultra HD - Not on Original Tivo.
Channel 999 - ID 1989 Virgin TV Ultra HD - Not on Original Tivo.
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Temporary subscription pack codes removed for M/Player/Mixit on
traditional cable networks and for the basic, inclusive channels, pack
for Stream devices.
These
channels are no longer available to all customers with the original subscription codes restored.
Temporary Rebrands:
- 4 movie channels reverting to their usual names following promotional rebrands.
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