Well, it's been speculated that Viacom will rebrand one of their existing channels in order to bring Paramount to the UK.
I guess this development probably rules out Spike being used for this purpose. You'd think that one of the +1's would be used, but it was Viacom that reintroduced 5* +1 after Dirty Desmond dropped it to launch 5+ 24 (now My5)??
@ jj20x, been told that TS 44 is not present in the Manchester area, don't know if that info is of any use to you!
Also, despite being in HD, BBC Wales still get their local news in SD!! Someone working in the industry has said that this is due to be remedied in the first quarter of 2019; a further setback to my calculations/theory
Work to make the BBC1 NI newsroom HD is now complete, so it looks like BBC1 NI will be going fully HD in the near future.
How do VM treat the BBC1 HD Nations on the EPG? Have they swapped them with the SD variants to make them more accessible to viewers?