Overnight changes: 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Note that the network issues are not yet resolved, we are using an out-of-hours workaround to bring you this update.

The blog has now been updated with recent changes. Wednesday: PMT and elementary streams removed for Sky Replay. Thursday: SDT Root flags updated to show that encryption has been removed from Sky Replay. Friday: 1 promotional rebrand. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Posts are suspended across all feeds due to a networking issue. We hope to be back later in the weekend.

The blog has now been updated for the overnight changes. Sorry for the delay. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

We don't have enough time to fully run the changes through the database so blog updates are delayed for the overnight changes. So a quick summary. Channel 231 Great British Menu (FAST channel) closed and removed.

Added to remaining networks and moved from pre-launch channel 232 to channel 231 - Inside Outside (FAST channel) has launched. Channel 283 MTV 90s rebranded as MTV XMAS (8 days late as the channel rebranded on Nov 11th). Channel 292 Clubland TV rebranded as NOW XMAS.

Many thanks to the UKCG support teams for the massive amount of work done overnight on all feeds and to Craig for early morning updates to most feeds. Other feeds should resume late this afternoon as the editors return from Sunday's meeting. UKCTVC isn't affected.

Overnight Changes - Temporary Rebrands: 2 movie channels reverting to their usual names following promotional rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

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Overnight changes: Sky Replay hidden from the EPG after carrying a closure slate for 8 days. SDT root flags updated for the new FAST channel pre-launch configurations. 3 movie channels with promotional rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Thursday's changes: 2 New FAST channels with pre-launch configurations, DJazz & Classica in the music genre with provisional channel allocations of 297 and 296 respectively. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Overnight Changes - Temporary Rebrands: Various kids' & movie channels switching in and out of promotional rebrands. With Virgin TV seemingly ignoring today's rebrand of MTV 90s as MTV Xmas... Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The database capacity is now larger than needed given the number of records removed. As similar changes have previously been made prior to Virgin TV adding new (e.g. FAST) services, we will wait before reducing the database capacity.

Most of the changes to tidy up the database following the recent service removals have now been completed. A few coding changes to automated annotations are still required to reduce the processing overhead but these will be phased in gradually.

The blog has been updated with today's changes. Kids' channels have now reverted to their usual subscription packages following a free to view period. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

With the recent blog updates, SQL seems to be working properly. So we have updated the blog pages. The Pending Launch page has been refreshed. The SI Errors page has been added to the menu and the End of Service Placeholder page has finally been added. ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The blogs have now been updated. The updates for Thursday's service removals has been a challenge as it has changed the structure of the database. No Friday rebrands this week. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

In an odd move, former transport stream 30, which had largely been removed has had cable delivery service information added back to the NIT. Now showing a frequency of zero, which makes no sense at all. Legacy frequencies were cleared a long time ago.

Removals: Further internal services and end of service placeholders. The hybrid tests for launching IPTV streams from the EPG (possibly meant to work in a similar way to Freely). Frequency test transport streams used on some networks.

Further to Dave's comments, some of the changes on Thursday were complex and the structure changes have caused issues with the database. Various parameters will need adjusting before the database can be rolled over to process Friday's data. -Ed

Some significant changes over the last week. Sunday - Active hours adjusted for the end of BST. Monday - Rebrands Thursday - Closure of Sky Replay, Service Removals & Transport Stream Removals. Due on Friday - More Rebrands. We hope to provide full details on the blog by Friday.

Overnight Changes - Temporary Rebrands: 3 movie channels with promotional rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The blog has been updated with details of Thursday's service removals. Several deprecated system services and placeholder services have been removed from the SI data. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Create & Craft, the BBC Red Button Services and BBC Radio 4 LW placeholders have now been removed.

Several placeholders remain, some long past the usual retention period: Create & Craft - 356 days. Eurosport UHD - 268 days Real Life - 236 days - as a FAST channel, this won't even be preserving recordings. ITVBe +1 - 135 days

The blog has been updated with Monday's rebrand and details of Tuesday's service removals. Several deprecated system services have been removed along with placeholder services for Islam Channel Urdu and NOTTS TV. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The blog has been updated with Friday's rebrand. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The blog has been updated with Monday's rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

We hope to revert to the usual update cycle in the coming week.

The blog has been updated with details of changes made up to Friday October 10. Updating the pre-launch status of "Inside Outside" which has had a PMT, static video slate and encryption added. Plus the usual rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

The blog was updated a few hours ago with Monday's rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Further analysis of yesterday's changes showed that Virgin TV introduced further errors in the SI data. A duplicate record of the subscription codes for Gemporia. Not a major error as devices will ignore the duplicate. This will be added to the blog's SI error list this weekend.

The blog has been updated with today's changes. Kids channels now on a free to view period until the end of the month. Gems TV renamed Gemporia and moved from an SD to a HD stream.

Several significant network issues have delayed the processing of today's changes. We hope to have these resolved shortly and will then get the blogs updated by 9pm. Thank you for your patience.

A lot of behind the scenes work is going on at the moment, both here and at UKTTVC, as some backroom systems are merged. Keep an eye on the blogs for new features.

The blog has been updated with today's rebrands also with rebrands for Sept 29th. The blog was also updated on Sept 26th but wasn't reported here. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Delayed somewhat by the UKCG meeting but the blog has now been updated with Monday's rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

At a UKCG meeting today it was decided to reimpose the restriction on UKCG data being released through public forums. It is inappropriate to release information via platforms which promote fantasy scenarios over, or even alongside, facts. Promoting fantasies only sows confusion.

Sooner that expected, the blogs have been updated with the rebrands from Monday & Friday. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com A big thank you to Ed for arranging for the database to be brought up to date this morning.

We lost daytime access to the data centre over the last week or so. As the only changes were rebrands, it was decided not to update the blogs and feeds. A full set of data is available and will be processed over the weekend. Updates should appear later today.

Overnight Changes - Temporary Rebrands: 1 movie channel with a promotional rebrand. 1 sports channel with a promotional rebrand (SD & HD versions). Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Posts on Bluesky (on this feed) have resumed pending a possible workaround to Bluesky's post censorship (inappropriate moderation) on our UKMediaEnts feed.

Overnight Changes - Temporary Rebrands: 2 movie channels with promotional rebrands. 2 movie channels reverting to their usual names following promotional rebrands. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Overnight changes-renamed services: Channel 424 ID 1341 GREAT! christmas - service name changed from GREAT! romance. Channel 425 ID 1894 GREAT! mystery - service name changed from GREAT! movies. EPG names are G!christmas & GRT!mystery. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

Overnight changes: Closed channel, Notts TV, has belatedly had placeholder / end of service flags added. This combination temporarily protects any recordings for a short period. Further details: ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com