CITV Gone

13-01-2011 7:56pm #1

Has CITV been removed from epg number 621? My daughter was a bit upset so I tuned it into the other channels section but as it is after their broadcasting time I don't know if it works.

homer911 · 13-01-2011 8:08pm

Is this Sky or Freesat? Its 602 on Freesat and working fine, but no idea of the channel number on Sky..

13-01-2011 8:20pm

Sky channel 621,maybe it has been removed from the Irish epg.

BuzzG · 14-01-2011 12:04am

Yup it's been removed, should be on-air via other channels in the morning so you should be ok. Aren't they (Sky/ITV) really sneaky just pulling it like that, it's been been on the Irish EPG for ages, albeit against the grain for ITV as none of their other channels are on the Irish EPG.

excuse me · 14-01-2011 12:12am

BuzzG wrote: »

Yup it's been removed, should be on-air via other channels in the morning so you should be ok. Aren't they (Sky/ITV) really sneaky just pulling it like that, it's been been on the Irish EPG for ages, albeit against the grain for ITV as none of their other channels are on the Irish EPG.

when you say "other channels" where will i get it? my 4 yr old loves it!

BuzzG · 14-01-2011 12:27am

CITV can be tuned into other channels as follows:

On the Sky remote select Interactive > System Set-up > Add Channels

Fill out the details onscreen from the following

CITV
Frequency - 10.758
Polarization - V
Symbol Rate - 22000
FEC - 5/6

Then Search and and you should see CITV in the list.
Save it and then it should be in Other Channels (Interactive > Other Channels)

JDxtra · 14-01-2011 10:15am

I've always thought the presence of CITV on our EPG was a mistake by ITV or Sky.

It's removal now just re-enforces the belief that ITV have no interest in having any of their channels available via Sky in Ireland.

smodgley · 14-01-2011 12:04pm

i still have it on 621

JDxtra · 14-01-2011 12:12pm

Do you have an active Sky Ireland sub?

Either that, or it came back.

watty · 14-01-2011 3:15pm

JDxtra wrote: »

I've always thought the presence of CITV on our EPG was a mistake by ITV or Sky.

It's removal now just re-enforces the belief that ITV have no interest in having any of their channels available via Sky in Ireland.

Sky has to pay UK channels to have them on Irish EPG if it's a Broadcast intended for UK.

smodgley · 14-01-2011 5:17pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Do you have an active Sky Ireland sub?

Either that, or it came back.

yes i have HD BOX

14-01-2011 5:38pm

So why is it still on a HD box and not on a SD one?

watty · 14-01-2011 6:04pm

Sky update software in blocks of models

smodgley · 14-01-2011 6:42pm

SO im likely to lose it watty?
not that it actually matters kids hardly watch it

watty · 14-01-2011 7:12pm

It will still work on Other Channels. Hardly likely need to record it?

smodgley · 14-01-2011 8:04pm

god no !!!

channelsurfer2 · 15-01-2011 9:38pm

anyone email sky and ask them was it itv that requested it be removed or was it a payment issue?

rogue.goofball · 17-01-2011 11:24pm

I did call sky on it yesterday, as I have multiroom and it was on one and not the other. kids complained as it was not on the sky+ box in the playroom, but I still had it on the HD box.
After a bit of fluffing about, the guy on the phone found a sky/itv news update floating around the call centre.
There was a reshuffle of all ITV channel numbers (except CITV), but basically the channel was being taken off the irish epg until further notice.
I guess during the reshuffle, they realized it should never have been there.

channelsurfer2 · 18-01-2011 9:17am

until further notice..... meaning never again.. usual trick with sky and itv...the only reason i can think of is that they must have been pulled up by one of the rights holders for extra fees for one of their programmes for irish rights and realised that it was actually on the irish epg by mistake!either that or they asked sky for money and sky said no.

watty · 18-01-2011 9:41am

ITV has to pay extra money to be on Irish EPG. If Sky wants them on Irish EPG, then Sky has to pay ITV. Unlikely to be mainly a rights issue.

teedeepee · 18-01-2011 1:31pm

watty wrote: »

ITV has to pay extra money to be on Irish EPG. If Sky wants them on Irish EPG, then Sky has to pay ITV. Unlikely to be mainly a rights issue.

So it's the presence of it on the EPG that determines whether or not Sky have to pay the rights owner? Makes no sense. When will Sky and ITV realise that they're losing business because of the absence of all the ITV channels from the EPG? Am I right in saying that they're available on UPC? Bottom line in our house is that we don't even look at what's on ITV because it's not on the EPG.

watty · 18-01-2011 2:34pm

UPC pays ITV, BBC, C4, etc...

Sky pays BBC for slots on Irish EPG.
BBC pays Sky for slots on UK EPG.

CITV Gone

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