Virgin Media issues important advice to all Sky TV customers as big changes announced
ANYONE watching Sky channels on their Virgin Media box needs to know about some big new changes.
Virgin Media is warning some of its TV customers that may struggle to find their usual favourite Sky channels. Services such as Sky Comedy, Sky Crime and Sky Arts have all recently changed their position on the firm's set-top boxes and that's not all.
To add to the confusion, Sky has just made a major change to its TV platform with the Sky One being ditched and replaced with two new channels called Sky Max and Sky Showcase.
Showcase is designed to be the one-stop-shop for everything you should watch across the other Sky channels. As such, it will air a mixture of the most talked-about and critically-acclaimed shows from across Sky's portfolio of channels.
Sky Max’s launch schedule will include some of the biggest new shows coming to Sky, including the long-awaited revival of comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, as well as The Russell Howard Hour, and some of the biggest DC shows previously found on Sky One.
Virgin Media can find Sky Showcase on channel 109 and Sky Max on channel 121.
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In a post on its blog, Virgin said: "With so much on the box, there’s no better time to get bang up to speed on where you can find all the great channels available to you.
"From September, Sky One closes and is replaced by TWO brand new channels – Sky Max and Sky Showcase (you can find out more about them here). In addition, there are a number of channel number changes."
So if you are a Virgin Media telly addict here's where you'll find all of the new and repositioned Sky channels.
Here's the full list of channels that have changed and where you'll now find them:
NEW CHANNELS AND CHANGES
Sky Showcase HD (CH 109)
Sky Showcase (CH 110)
Sky Max HD (CH 121)
Sky Max (CH 122)
Sky Comedy HD (CH 123)
Sky Comedy (CH 135)
Sky Crime HD (CH 136)
Sky Crime (CH 137)
SYFY HD (CH 138)
SYFY (CH 139)
Sky Arts HD (CH 140)
Pick (CH 156)
Challenge (CH 160)
E! HD (CH 163)
E! (CH 164)
Sky Arts (CH 165)
Sky Replay (CH 180)
Sky Witness +1 (CH 206)
Sky Crime +1 (CH 207)