News on new channels - Freeview & Sky

(02-12-2017 13:10 )HEX!T Wrote:  even less sure why they have bothered with the babecall channel now. a couple of hours into there show they start running advert vt on 1 of there busiest nights of the week.

Looks to me like the producer has not worked out how to do breaks yet, babecall 1 & 2 Both 30 mins of adds around midnight as they let 2 girls have break at the same time,
After that it was live on both till about 330 from what I saw when they showed more adds after the shower special,

I still think who ever books the show didn't know about the new channel as not had enough girls booked to cover it yet, good question is why no girl booked in for the babecall box webshow the last 2 nights as that girl could have been moved onto tv to cover breaks, very strange

it was about 2-2:30 when i looked at the new channel and it was running adverts from then on mate.
never saw any shower show

After retuning my Freeview tv, I have noticed that the adult section has had 4 additional blank slots added to it. Channel 695,696,697 & 698. Currently all saying "service is not running" but there must be some reason for adding them.

(15-05-2019 14:56 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  After retuning my Freeview tv, I have noticed that the adult section has had 4 additional blank slots added to it. Channel 695,696,697 & 698. Currently all saying "service is not running" but there must be some reason for adding them.

According to this link, the table there suggests they are nothing more than 'bookends' to protect those mysterious people who come across the 6xx channel range and don't release what they've happened upon.

It would be nice to think there are more new channels coming, but given the whole trend towards web-only, sadly I doubt it.
Perhaps they might at some point be converted to 'streamed' channels...

(15-05-2019 14:56 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  there must be some reason for adding them.

They are a consumer protection buffer between the adult section and the radio section. They were added almost 2 years ago.

After a recent Sky update
Recorded Adult shows on Sky no longer show on the 'All' option of the planner. They still show in the Adult option but will require your password to access.

That's old news Charlemagne but thanks for the update. Think this should of been done ages ago to be honest because you have a Kids Section,Entertainment Section,Sports Section etc so why not have a Adult Section you have everything else after all.

Only just updated to me last night

(30-05-2019 16:43 )Kingsmind Wrote:  That's old news Charlemagne

It's old news, you're right, as the planner upgrade was announced at the end of March. However, Sky said it would take until the end of June to fully roll it out, so it's not a surprise that Charlemagne only received the upgrade when he did.