Changes to the Sky TV guide - February 2023

[Chloe-W22]

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

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

Wednesday 1st 

• BBC One East Midlands HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One SD Nightlight at 101) and replaces ​BBC One East Midlands SD at 960
• BBC One East HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One SD Nightlight at 101) and replaces BBC One East SD at 961

Thursday 2nd

• QTV Religious launches to EPG number 761

Friday 3rd 

• JurassicWorld (Satellite 302 - Glass 302) changes name to Sky Valentine/SkyValentineHD
• Sky Greats (Satellite 304/849 - Glass 304) renames to Sky Tom Cruise / Tom Cruise HD

Monday 6th

• SC Tom Cruise (Satellite 304/849 - Glass 304) renames to  Sky Greats / Sky Greats HD 
• SC Action (Satellite 307/851 - Glass 307) renames to UltimateAction / UltActionHD
• Iran International HD (Satellite – 793) closes permanently

Tuesday 7th

• Sky Spiderman (Satellite 303 - Glass 303) changes name to​ ​Sky Hits / Sky Hits HD

BBC Changes are to Satellite TV only and does not affect Sky Glass:

•  BBC Alba HD launches to 847 in the UK (smart swapped with BBC Alba SD 117 in Scotland and 169 in the rest of the UK)
• BBC One Wales SD (952/101) closes - existing BBC One Wales HD remains at 978 and 801(801 smart swapped with Nightlight at 101)
• BBC Two Wales SD (971/102) closes - existing BBC Two Wales HD remains at 980 and 802(802 smart swapped with BBC Two Network at 102)
•  BBC Two Network closes at 969 in Wales
•  BBC One West Midlands HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 959
• BBC One Yorks & Lincs HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 957

Wednesday 8th

• Sky Kids launches into the EPG - (Satellite 609, Sky Glass UK 203, Sky Glass ROI 202)
• Baby TV (609) moves to 626 on Satellite

Sky Glass UK channel moves in Kids:

• Nickelodeon moves from 203 to 204
• Nicktoons moves from 204 to 205
• Nick Jr. moves from 205 to 206
• Nick Jr. Too moves from 206 to 207
• Cartoon Network moves from 207 to 208
• Boomerang moves from 208 to 209
• Cartoonito moves from 209 to 210
• BabyTV moves from 210 to 211
• CITV moves from 211 to 212
• RTE Jr moves from 212 to 213 in NI only

Sky Glass ROI channel moves in Kids:

• Nickelodeon moves from 202 to 203
• Nicktoons moves from 203 to 204
• Nick Jr. moves from 204 to 205
• Nick Jr. Too moves from 205 to 206
• CBBC moves from 206 to 207
• CBeebies moves from 207 to 208
• Cartoon Network moves from 208 to 209
• Boomerang moves from 209 to 210
• Cartoonito moves from 210 to 211
• BabyTV moves from 211 to 212

Friday 10th

• Sky Family (Satellite 306/850 - Glass 306) renames to WizardingWorld/WizardingWldHD

Wednesday 15th

All below BBC changes are on the satellite platform only - Sky Glass is unaffected:

• ​BBC Red Button 1 HD launches to 982 and smart swaps with BBC RB 1 SD at 981
• ​BBC One West HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 966
• ​BBC One South West HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 967
• ​BBC One Channel Islands HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 968
• ​BBC One London HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 954
• ​BBC One London SD ROI closes at 954 in Ireland

Thursday 16th

• Sky Hits (Satellite 303 - Glass 303) changes name to  Sky Assassins / Sky AssassinsHD 

Monday 20th

• Sky Sports NFL (Satellite 407/865 - Glass 407) renames to SkySp Action / SkySp ActionHD
• Sky Valentines (Satellite 302 - Glass 302) renames to CultClassics / CultClassicsHD​

Tuesday 21st

All below BBC changes are on the satellite platform only - Sky Glass is unaffected:

• ​BBC Parliament HD launches to 887 and smart swaps with BBC Parliament SD at 504
• BBC One Scotland SD (101/951) closes - existing BBC One Scotland HD remains at 977 and 801 (801 smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101)
• BBC One Yorkshire HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 956
• BBC One North East & Cumbria HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 955
• BBC One North West HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 958
• BBC One HD & BBC One ROI HD (115 and 976) close apart from 115 in the BBC One South East region

Wednesday 22nd

• BBC One South East HD launches to 801 (smart swapped with BBC One Nightlight at 101) and replaces SD at 963
• BBC One HD (115) closes in the South East
• BBC Three moves from 173 in London and 117 in England to 115

Friday 24th

• Sky Assassins (Satellite 303 - Glass 303) changes name to​ ​ ​Sky Hits / Sky Hits HD 

Monday 27th

• Ultimate Action (Satellite 307/851 - Glass 307) renames to Sky Action / Sky Action HD
• Sky Greats (Satellite 304/849 - Glass 304) renames to Sky Oscars / SkyOscarsHD

Tuesday 28th

• Sky Wizarding World (Satellite 306/850 - Glass 306) ​ renames Sky Kids Books and SkyKidsBooksHD

Useful links

TV channel list on Sky Glass

Channels available on Sky Go

Sky TV channels on PlayStation and Xbox

Sky Glass Playlist explained 

[1Anonymous1]

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[1Anonymous1]

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[AndyBirkett]

Hi - sorry to be thick, but can someone explain what "smart swapped with nightlight at 101" means? If I want regional content in HD, do I always have to go to the 800s? What does the above mean? 

[caesarome]

@AndyBirkett 

That means the regional HD channel should be at 101 once this has taken place in your region.

[Anonymous]

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Hi - sorry to be thick, but can someone explain what "smart swapped with nightlight at 101" means? If I want regional content in HD, do I always have to go to the 800s? What does the above mean? 

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Don't ever call yourself "thick". You're not meant to know everything. 

If we use Sky Showcase as an example.
If one has the HD pack, one will see Sky Showcase HD on channel 106 and Sky Showcase SD on channel 806. If one doesn't have the HD pack, one will see Sky Showcase SD on channel 106 and Sky Showcase HD on channel 806. 

For Sky+HD and Sky Q devices; free-to-air HD channels like ITV HD, ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD, ITV4 HD will appear on channels 103, 118, 119 and 120 with or without the HD pack. 

However, with older SD-only boxes like Sky+ and Sky Digiboxes, the SD versions will be on 103, 118, 119 and 120 instead with the HD versions in the 800s.

I hope this helps.

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In regard to BBC channels, if you have a Sky+HD or Sky Q box, your local BBC HD channels will be on 101 and 102 with some local BBC One HD channels launching before the end of February.

However, if you have an older SD-only box, you will lose access to local BBC channels as BBC One SD is being phased out before the end of the month. The nightlight/network versions of BBC One and BBC Two will be on 101 and 102 instead.

BBC One (Nightlight), labelled as just "BBC One" is the London region with no local news. BBC Two (Network), labelled as just "BBC Two", is the England and Scotland version.

If you have an older-SD only box, you can contact Sky to get a free upgrade to Sky Q. 

[AndyBirkett]

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation, really helpful. Pleased to hear we're getting regional BBC content in HD at last, years after ITV started it. Saves the 115 to 101 to 115 shuffle in the evenings ☺️

[ozsat]

Most ITV regions only went HD on Sky at the end of 2020 - before then they had the wrong region.

Most BBC regions will still for SD news for some time - even after the HD switch.

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation, really helpful. Pleased to hear we're getting regional BBC content in HD at last, years after ITV started it. Saves the 115 to 101 to 115 shuffle in the evenings ☺️

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[whiteonline]

Makes a change for Wizarding world to be back 🙄

[Anonymous]

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation, really helpful. Pleased to hear we're getting regional BBC content in HD at last, years after ITV started it. Saves the 115 to 101 to 115 shuffle in the evenings ☺️

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With BBC One HD closing on 115, I would highly suspect 115 will be used for BBC Three in England and Wales when the BBC One HD regions are upgraded. This has already happened in Northern Ireland, where BBC Three was moved to 115 as BBC Two HD was previously there before BBC Two NI HD launched.

However, I don't know what Sky/BBC will do in Scotland as BBC Alba and BBC Scotland are on 115 and 117. As per Ofcom rules. the BBC/Sky have 18 months from launch to put BBC Three between 101 and 124. This date is 1 August 2023. So it must be moved before then. I would suspect Sky might put BBC Three on channel 108 to put the EPG similar to Wales with S4C/Channel 4.

[1Anonymous1]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation, really helpful. Pleased to hear we're getting regional BBC content in HD at last, years after ITV started it. Saves the 115 to 101 to 115 shuffle in the evenings ☺️

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With BBC One HD closing on 115, I would highly suspect 115 will be used for BBC Three in England and Wales when the BBC One HD regions are upgraded. This has already happened in Northern Ireland, where BBC Three was moved to 115 as BBC Two HD was previously there before BBC Two NI HD launched.

However, I don't know what Sky/BBC will do in Scotland as BBC Alba and BBC Scotland are on 115 and 117. As per Ofcom rules. the BBC/Sky have 18 months from launch to put BBC Three between 101 and 124. This date is 1 August 2023. So it must be moved before then. I would suspect Sky might put BBC Three on channel 108 to put the EPG similar to Wales with S4C/Channel 4.

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for the regions where bbc one has updated to HD it's showing bbc one Hd at 101 and 115 instead of just at 101 but no bbc one SD

[Anonymous]

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@1Anonymous1 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation, really helpful. Pleased to hear we're getting regional BBC content in HD at last, years after ITV started it. Saves the 115 to 101 to 115 shuffle in the evenings ☺️

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With BBC One HD closing on 115, I would highly suspect 115 will be used for BBC Three in England and Wales when the BBC One HD regions are upgraded. This has already happened in Northern Ireland, where BBC Three was moved to 115 as BBC Two HD was previously there before BBC Two NI HD launched.

However, I don't know what Sky/BBC will do in Scotland as BBC Alba and BBC Scotland are on 115 and 117. As per Ofcom rules. the BBC/Sky have 18 months from launch to put BBC Three between 101 and 124. This date is 1 August 2023. So it must be moved before then. I would suspect Sky might put BBC Three on channel 108 to put the EPG similar to Wales with S4C/Channel 4.

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for the regions where bbc one has updated to HD it's showing bbc one Hd at 101 and 115 instead of just at 101 but no bbc one SD

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BBC One (Nightlight) SD should be on channel 801 (UK) /832 (Ireland).

[AndyBirkett]

Interesting. Will they be forced to bump Sky Atlantic further down the EPG then, or is that not on 108 at the moment for you? 

[Anonymous]

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@AndyBirkett wrote:

Interesting. Will they be forced to bump Sky Atlantic further down the EPG then, or is that not on 108 at the moment for you? 

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I'm in Ireland, the Ireland EPG is different.

But in Wales, 104 is S4C and 108 is Channel 4. 108 to 115 were moved down one channel when Channel 4 moved to 108. 

Sugar! I forgot about that with Wales. Currently 116 is BBC Four and 117 is BBC Three, they might swap them around.