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Sky satellite users in Northern Ireland will finally be able to watch both RTÉ channels in HD.
The era of Viaplay in the UK has ended – Premier Sports has taken over the sports channels and announced changes to its service.
TV signal intended to feed remote UK Freeview transmitters was widely used by satellite users and illegal IPTV providers.
Sky satellite viewers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland will lose access to the standard definition version of TG4.
Viaplay Group confirmed on Tuesday that the sale of its UK sports channel business to Premier Sports has cleared its final hurdle. Subscribers will be transferred across within days.
Factual channel DMAX is allocated a new channel number on Sky’s satellite service from Tuesday 2nd April, as Sky fills an empty slot.
Sky and Freesat have ended support for their oldest receivers. But even newer HD compatible receivers may become obsolete by the end of the decade. How can viewers prepare for the future of TV?
The last remnants of the BBC’s standard definition TV services will vanish from satellite next week in a low-key end of a project to upgrade viewers to HD. The project provides a template on how forthcoming cuts and changes can be managed.
India-based news channel WION dropped off Sky on Wednesday afternoon, three years after making its UK debut on the platform.
Following the high-profile switch off of BBC and ITV standard definition services at the beginning of the year, further changes are now taking place that are stripping older satellite receivers of their functionality.