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Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

KevNewMedia — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:41:02 GMT

Keep up with the latest changes to the Sky TV Guide on Sky+, Sky Q and Sky Glass/Stream.

This list is updated weekly for the week ahead, but may still change.

Monday 1st June 2026:

SkyDecadesHD (Satellite 302 - Sky Glass/Stream 302) changes name to SkyDirectorsHD (temporary change)
Sky Batman HD (Satellite 303 - Sky Glass/Stream 303) changes name to Sky Pride HD (temporary change)
Nick Jr Peppa (Satellite 612 - Glass/Stream 208 Glass) renames to Nick Jr. Too

Tuesday 2nd June 2026:

London TV (Satellite 117 in the London region) closes permanently

Saturday 6th June 2026:

Sky Pride HD (Satellite 303 - Sky Glass/Stream 303) changes name to SkyAnimationHD (temporary change)

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Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Marlu-Nyu — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:59:58 GMT

Really surprised with London TV, it only launched on 20/01/25 from London Live.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

GenerationZ — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:18:47 GMT

Technically, London TV were actually launched on 19th January last year on the evening London Live being closedown at the same time.

However, London TV will come to an end this Tuesday evening (2nd June) at 12am during its late hours.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

xenon81 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:58:01 GMT

It's only closing on satellite, it will continue on Freeview and Virgin Media.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

TheRupster — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:03:19 GMT

Sky Cinema Animation is Coming back for a limited time like all the other Sky Temporary Renaming events in the past

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:24 GMT

London TV not showing much but currently True TV was just seems to cover EPG are reached or it’s been back through last year. It’s fairly clear BBC Scotland/Rewind TV didn't intend to move the 117 if Sky should create a new channel and close gap between 173-179= retains 174/177.

Option:

Move Channel 180 to 117: BBCScotlandHD (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

Move Channel 182 to 179: Rewind TV (UK)

171: That's TV (UK)

172: Disc.History (NI, Ire)

173: PBS America

174:

175: Animal Planet (NI, Ire)

176: Court TV

177:

178: Travelxp

179: Rewind TV (UK)

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:48:02 GMT

It's just easier for BBC Scotland taking a proportion of below Sky 180 demand. If anything that should be moved or evaluate current 117 to fill EPG Blank on BBC region.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Marlu-Nyu — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:50:33 GMT

@GenerationZ wrote:
Technically, London TV were actually launched on 19th January last year on the evening London Live being closedown at the same time.

However, London TV will come to an end this Tuesday evening (2nd June) at 12am during its late hours.

Actually, it launched at 00:01 on 20 January 2025. The programme that was on London Live was cut short as the feed changed to True Crime (London TV simulcasts this). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SWDzFVJbeE at roughly 5:50.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Doc5907 — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:22:44 GMT

@Akerman239 wrote:
It's just easier for BBC Scotland taking a proportion of below Sky 180 demand. If anything that should be moved or evaluate current 117 to fill EPG Blank on BBC region.

@Akerman239 and what about Yachting TV ?

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

GenerationZ — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:58:43 GMT

@Marlu-NyuBut, to me in my view and to be quite honest with you, London TV was actually launched (as I said before) in the late hours of Sunday evening, 19th January 2025, at 12:01am while it was not even Monday yet in my opinion. This actually happened on the night that London Live got closed down because it was the evening that London TV's launch did happened very much to me. The Wikipedia article reads: London Live closed at 23:59 on 19 January and was replaced with London TV immediately afterwards.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

GenerationZ — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:52:40 GMT

@xenon81 Interesting. London TV will close on Tuesday evening on satellite in anyway.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Marlu-Nyu — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:05:43 GMT

@GenerationZ wrote:
@Marlu-NyuBut, to me in my view and to be quite honest with you, London TV was actually launched (as I said before) in the late hours of Sunday evening, 19th January 2025, at 12:01am while it was not even Monday yet in my opinion. This actually happened on the night that London Live got closed down because it was the evening that London TV's launch did happened very much to me. The Wikipedia article reads: London Live closed at 23:59 on 19 January and was replaced with London TV immediately afterwards.

We're talking about real days (00:01-23:59) not TV days (06:00-29:59 (which is 06:00-05:59)),
London Live closes at 23:59 on 19 January 2025
London TV launched at 00:01 on 20 January 2025.

It specifically says 00:01 to avoid the issue of midnight, where it might be different for different people.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:43:55 GMT

I'm well aware that Scientology TV seems like a genuinely good idea and Sky never will be filled in That’s TV2 old slots, Although it's not present in those Google play, got updated August 2025.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:34:12 GMT

But in reality with the News genre, I think the reason for that is NewsNation and AnewZ TV have a low opinion of Sky more knowledgeable than just launching new channel. Personally EPG do trust iptv/Lyngsat though, like to see why WION HD not be on 519 are no longer.

NewsNation HD: American
Anewz TV: Azerbaijan

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

TimmyBGood — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:07:35 GMT

@Akerman239

Any channel listed in the Sky EPG has to meet UK broadcasting standards, which for a news channel are particularly strict in terms of ownership (including proximity to a foreign government) as well as content.

A great many news services around the world which are acceptable in their own countries of origin would not pass this test.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:01:16 GMT

@TimmyBGood

Yh... It is not hard to see Channelbox were doubtful and skeptical about whether TVP World launched on Freeview since 2022, but not Sky though. Recently Polish news programme.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:34:14 GMT

That is something I had in mind hence NewsNation shouldve launched that way. But not a real different NBCNewsNow did not show up to 2022 changes from Sky and left December 2023 American news channel which owns Comcast. Ironically it would have been easier to make a feature than this EPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsNation

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Akerman239 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:54:46 GMT

As I thought when Sky last HGTV why can't The HomeStyle Channel launch on EPG being dug up near Discovery really didn't help matters. Looking up Stremium.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

Tommy2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:56:47 GMT

Thank you for sharing this @KevNewMedia Its really helpful to know about these changes and updates.

Re: Changes to the TV Guide - June 2026

GenerationZ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:34:18 GMT

@Marlu-Nyu I have to express and emphasise my opinion.

In my view, the real days are like 5am-5am.

So that tells me, London Live closed down at 11:59pm on Sunday 19th January and then within moments afterwards at 12:01am on the very same day London TV was launched. That's technically happened on Sunday 19th January 2025 (not Monday 20th January 2025) so I cannot allow you to jump any conclusions if that's okay with you. I have Autism and it's my right to say 12am-5am being part of the late hours of each evening but the rest is history. End of story. [Removed]

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