Discovery RT & Travel&Living to close

Infoanon

Discovery Real Time(507) & Travel & Living(210) are to close on April 30th.

On Sky they make way for the new Discovery TLC channel but no word as of yet if TLC will launch on UPC

L1011

Going back to what we had circa 1997 then...

icdg

Well, the original TLC wasn't on Cablelink, but yeah, I'm not sure why they are reviving a brand long gone from the UK.

Infoanon

icdg wrote: »

Well, the original TLC wasn't on Cablelink, but yeah, I'm not sure why they are reviving a brand long gone from the UK.

Its a very different 'TLC' to the original station

patrickmooney

That poor 500 section. With 507 gone that leaves just 6 random channels up there.

I know Horizon is meant to remove the need for numbers, but this again rises the need for UPC to fix those groupings.

I'd say move all the discovery and learning channels to 500s giving 200s back to news. Or vice versa.

Infoanon

Infoanon wrote: »

Its a very different 'TLC' to the original station

Yeah, it certainly isn't "The Learning Channel" anymore and won't be a patch on the original. Sounds like more reality tripe. The original TLC was one of my favourites.

paulbok

Great, just what we need. More non-discovery, non-history programs on the Discovery/ History channels. -40 IQ points :rolleyes:

mackersdublin

patrickmooney wrote: »

That poor 500 section. With 507 gone that leaves just 6 random channels up there.

I know Horizon is meant to remove the need for numbers, but this again rises the need for UPC to fix those groupings.

I'd say move all the discovery and learning channels to 500s giving 200s back to news. Or vice versa.

According to this article TLC will launch in the Entertainment section, 125 on Sky (currently Challenge) and 167 on Virgin TV (currently S4C)
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2013/03/27/discovery-launches-tlc-in-the-uk/

Regarding the 500's - it's suppose to be the Lifestyle section, although E! is an Entertainment channel and ID is a News & Doc channel. That leaves only Food Network, Home and Fashion TV as the only real Lifestyle channels for the 500's. But I can understand why QVC is there

Regarding the 200's - News channels could be 201-220 and Documentaries could be from 221 onwards

mackersdublin

Infoanon wrote: »

Discovery Real Time(507) & Travel & Living(210) are to close on April 30th.

On Sky they make way for the new Discovery TLC channel but no word as of yet if TLC will launch on UPC

According to UPC's TV Guide...

Travel & Living is closing on Tues 30th April at 6am

Disc. Real Time is closing on Wed 1st May at 6am

BuffyBot

I'm not sure why they are reviving a brand long gone from the UK.

Aligning names with their other territories.

patrickmooney

Confirmed this evening, TLC will launch on UPC channel 113 from 8am tomorrow.

Infoanon

patrickmooney wrote: »

Confirmed this evening, TLC will launch on UPC channel 113 from 8am tomorrow.

113 ?? replacing E4+1

The 'new' Home&Health is the Realtime replacement on Sky - no word if this will reappear on UPC

patrickmooney

Yes not impressed with E4+1 moving. To where is not sure yet. It's my preference to have +1 channels beside their parent.

Infoanon

patrickmooney wrote: »

Yes not impressed with E4+1 moving. To where is not sure yet. It's my preference to have +1 channels beside their parent.

As of this morning on UPC - TLC has replaced Realtime on 507 and Home & Health has replaced Travel & Living

patrickmooney

Infoanon wrote: »

As of this morning on UPC - TLC has replaced Realtime on 507 and Home & Health has replaced Travel & Living

Perhaps it may change at 8pm.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/controversial-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-comes-to-ireland-in-tlc-launch-29229375.html

According to the Indo it's 113.

mackersdublin

That's a strange one, very high in the EPG

Bodan

The EPG needs a general re-shuffle as it is a bit of a mess in some places. The 500's is perfect for TLC, surrounded by mostly women stations already, like E, Fashion tv , qvc , food etc. it is a natural fit.

Now that real time is gone , i hope UPC will think of adding Discovery Shed.

L1011

icdg wrote: »

Well, the original TLC wasn't on Cablelink, but yeah, I'm not sure why they are reviving a brand long gone from the UK.

When did Discovery get put on to analogue? Actually can't remember if it was in the era of TLC timesharing or not, seeing as I've mostly been in ex-CMI land.

MYOB

MYOB wrote: »

When did Discovery get put on to analogue? Actually can't remember if it was in the era of TLC timesharing or not, seeing as I've mostly been in ex-CMI land.

Launched in 1989, fed via 27.5 west. It started timesharing with TLC in 1992. Both channels moved to Astra 1C in 1993/94. According to Wikipedia, Discovery moved first and wasn't timeshared with TLC on Astra until 1994.

L1011

Meant analogue Cablelink/NTL not Astra

MYOB

MYOB wrote: »

Meant analogue Cablelink/NTL not Astra

TLC never was. Discovery was fairly late, 2001 maybe? It replaced National Geographic.

Infoanon

patrickmooney wrote: »

Confirmed this evening, TLC will launch on UPC channel 113 from 8am tomorrow.

TLC has now moved from 507 to 121(old Gold+1/ITV3) slot.

Had hoped Watch would one day make an appearance there....(rumours about Irish opt outs etc)

zg3409

Karsini wrote: »

TLC never was. Discovery was fairly late, 2001 maybe? It replaced National Geographic.

It was 2001
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=80938

I remember complaining about it to UPC at the time. They said they had received a lot of complaints. Only got it back myself this year. That's 12 years without it.

mackersdublin

Infoanon wrote: »

TLC has now moved from 507 to 121(old Gold+1/ITV3) slot.

Had hoped Watch would one day make an appearance there....(rumours about Irish opt outs etc)

Looks like since the move to channel 121, TLC is available on the Value Pack. If I'm not mistaken it was only available on the Max pack