Screenshots from April 2005
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01/04/05: Deluxe Music has started its transmissions in the clear on Astra, 19° east, 12460 H 27500 3/4,
ident: DPC.TV1 (updated DELUXE MUSIC), framesize: 480 x 576.
01/04/05: Al Aqariya 2 is new on Arabsat, 26° east,
12597 V 27500 3/4.
01/04/05: testcard from IB3, on Hispasat, 30° west,
11972 V 27500 3/4.
01/04/05: testcard from Tele Plaisance, on Astra, 19° east, 12012 V 27500 3/4, ident: CANAL EVENEMENT 02/04/05: Euronews is now also available in the clear on Eutelsat Sesat, 36° east, 12698 H 4883 1/2,
ident: EURONEWS-USA, provider: GLOBECAST
03/04/05: Viva Polska and 4fun.tv are just two among several polish channels,
which have stopped broadcasting to commemorate the Pope's death.
03/04/05: TD1, turkish-german television, new on
Eurasiasat 1, 42° east, 11945 V 5925 3/4.
06/04/05: infocard from TVP Kultura, a new channel
from polish national broadcaster TVP.
On Eutelsat W3A, 7° east, 11175 V 27500 3/4.
 

Discovery Home & Leisure UK +1
framesize: 544 x 576, id: D'covery H&L+

British Eurosport 2
framesize: 544 x 576, id: Eurosport2 UK

Sky Sports News
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Sky Spts News
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Spts Extra Test

Sky Sports Xtra
framesize: 720 x 576, id: Sky Spts Xtra
framesize: 720 x 576, id: SP Extra

Sci-Fi Channel UK
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Sci-Fi

Hallmark UK
framesize: 544 x 576, id: Hallmark

Sky Sports 1
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Sky Sports 1
07/04/05: All Sky Digital channels on transponder 1 of satellite Astra, 28° east, are in the clear.
11720 H 27500 2/3
 
07/04/05: Channel U Rock has been seen on Fizz, on Eurobird 1, 28° east, 11264 H 22000 5/6.
Music videos consisted in pure indie british acts. Exactly at 0100 o'clock CET, Fizz came back, but before playing dance videos again, they played a few indie videos with the Fizz graphics.
 

Ang Dating Daan
framesize: 544 x 480, id: ADD

CTN International
framesize: 720 x 576, id: CTN

Living Asia Channel
framesize: 720 x 480, id: Living Asia

ACQ - KBN
framesize: 480 x 480, id: ACQ-KBN

ATN Bangla
framesize: 720 x 576, id: ATN Bangla

Sanskar TV
framesize: 720 x 576, id: Sanskar TV

TV9 India
framesize: 720 x 576, id: TV9

TVK Cambodia
framesize: 720 x 576, id: TVK
08/04/05: a new package with various asian channels has started on Atlantic Bird 1, 12°.5 west, 11335 H 13021 3/4.
See pictures above for details.
 
08/04/05: infocard from Halk TV, on Eurasiasat 1, 42° east, 12536 H 2962 3/4, id: TURKSAT 09/04/05: Extreme Sports Channel on satellite Telstar12
has been replaced by this card.
On Telstar 12, 15° west, 11150 H 18386 3/4,
ident: Extreme S.A., provider: digital media centre, network: DMC
 

Canal Clasico
framesize: 480 x 576, id: CANAL CLASICO

Hispavision
framesize: 480 x 576, id: HISPAVISION

Nostalgia
framesize: 480 x 576, id: NOSTALGIA

Teledeporte
framesize: 480 x 576, id: TELEDEPORTE
09/04/05: pay-tv channels from spanish broadcaster TVE are temporarily in the clear on Hispasat, 30° west,
11931 H 27500 3/4.
 
09/04/05: testcard from Family Fest, on HotBird, 13° east,
11179 H 27500 3/4, ident: FamilyFest 2005
13/04/05: tests with black screen + logo, from Viasat Cinema 3, on Sirius, 5° east, 11747 V 27500 3/4, ident: Test 16
 
13/04/05: Wom Plus has been replaced by Halay TV,
from Turkey, on Eurasiasat 1, 42° east,
11804 V 24444 5/6,
ident: MOTOR TURK TV, provider: DMG

Tip: in the screenshot, turkish singer Laz Taylor.
13/04/05: Wom Europe has been replaced
by Europe Smart TV, on Eurasiasat 1, 42° east,
11852 V 4444 5/6,
ident: Smart Muzik, provider: Tadiran Scopus
 

Al Arabiya
framesize: 720 x 576, id: Alarabiya

Citruss TV
framesize: 704 x 576, id: CITRUSS TV

MBC 1
framesize: 720 x 576, id: MBC1

MBC 2
framesize: 704 x 576, id: MBC2

MBC 3
framesize: 704 x 576, id: MBC3

MBC 4
framesize: 704 x 576, id: MBC4
14/04/05: new SamaCom package on Nilesat, 7° west, 11938 V 27500 3/4.
The package includes all 4 MBC channels, Al Arabiya and a testcard from new channel Citruss TV.
 
14/04/05: NBC and MSNBC from the United States are in the clear on Telstar 12, 15° west,
11531 H 3261 7/8, NTSC framesize: 325 x 256
id: NETU51, NETU52, NETU53
14/04/05: Al Jazeera Live is testing on Nilesat, 7° west, 12283 V 27500 3/4.
id: JSC LIVE
Start: 15/04/2005
15/04/05: tests from Matinee Movies, on Eurobird 1, 28° east,
11307 V 27500 2/3, id: 53305
 

Eurosport
framesize: 704 x 576, id: ESP Greek

CNN International
framesize: 528 x 576, id: CNN Int.
15/04/05: AthinaSat, a new greek-cypriot package, has started testing on HellasSat, 39° east, 12565 H 28800 7/8.
There are some tests (see picture on top-right) on 8 out of the 10 channels available, plus Eurosport and CNN International. Service IDs are: Beat, Cartoon Network TCM, Cine Action, Cine Comedy Plus, Cine Greek,
CNN Int., Documentary, ESP Greek, Joy TV Family, Spice Platinum
 
16/04/05: Europa 7 TVR Voxson is new on Eutelsat W2,
16° east, 11082 H 5210 5/6, id: Test Voxon, provider: Elpitel
16/04/05: promo from easy.tv (from german cable-tv company Primacom), new on Astra, 19°east,
12663 H 22000 5/6, id: easy.tv info

Eurosport 2
framesize: 720 x 576, id: Eurosport 2

Cartoon Network
framesize: 528 x 576, id: TCN

TCM
framesize: 528 x 576, id: TCM
17/04/05: new testcard and 3 additional channels from AthinaSat have made available.
On HellasSat (see above).
 
18/04/05: testcard from Radio Bremen, on Astra, 19° east,
12265 H 27500 3/4, id: Radio Bremen
19/04/05: logocard from new channel Spicy, on Nilesat,
7° west, 11919 H 27500 3/4, id: SPICY
19/04/05: Iraq Sport, on Nilesat, 7° west,
11919 H 27500 3/4, id: Iraq Sport
 

The Amp
framesize: 704 x 576, id: The Amp

Flaunt
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Flaunt

Scuzz
framesize: 704 x 576, id: Scuzz
  
19/04/05: music channels The Amp, Scuzz, Flaunt are in the clear on Eurobird 1, 28° east,
on the new frequency of 11343 V 27500 2/3.
 

Cine Action
 

Beat
Hey, maybe easy to hide the  MTV logo, isn't it? Not fair, though!

Cine Comedy Plus
 

Cine Greek
 

Joy TV
 

Family
 
19/04/05: all locally-produced channels from new greek-cypriot package AthinaSat (see above) have started testing
on HellasSat, 39° east.
 
20/04/05: tests from Hawas TV have joined recently launched MBC package on Nilesat, 7° west, 11938 V 27500 3/4,
id: HAWAS TV, provider: Harmonic, network: Nilesat 101/102, framesize: 352 x 576.
22/04/05: Osool, on Nilesat, 7° west, 12054 V 27500 3/4. 22/04/05: promo from Al-Emarah, new on Nilesat, 7° west, 11919 H 27500 3/4, id: Al-Emarah
23/04/05: Eins Muxx has been renamed Eins Plus, on Astra, 19° east, 12110 H 27500 3/4.
23/04/05: promo from Albaniasat, on Eutelsat W2,
16° east, 11449 H 27500 7/8, id: KANAL 13
24/04/05: Senso TV, new on Amos, 4° west,
11652 H 16100 3/4.
24/04/05: infocard from Al-Sahah wa Al-Sokan, on Nilesat,
7° west, 11747 V 27500 3/4, id: HOR1
24/04/05: infocard from Infosport, on HotBird, 13° east,
10834 V 27500 3/4.
 

Playhouse Disney
framesize: 544 x 576, id: Playhouse Disney
12054 H 27500 3/4

GXT
framesize: 480 x 576, id: GXT
12731 H 27500 3/4

Animal Planet
framesize: 544 x 576, id: Animal Planet
11996 V 27500 3/4

Eurosport 2
framesize: 544 x 576, id: Eurosport 2
11862 H 27500 3/4
24/04/05: new channels will be available on Sky Italia from the 1st of May, on HotBird, 13° east.
 
25/04/05: promo from Eurosport 2 France, new on pay-tv platform TPS from the 30th of April, on HotBird, 13° east,
10834 V 27500 3/4, id: EUROSPORT 2
25/04/05: KTM, new channel from the Ukraine, on Amos,
4° west, 10723 H 27500 3/4, id: TEST
25/04/05: True Movies is new on Eurobird, 28° east,
11343 V 27500 2/3.
25/04/05: tests from music channel A+ Music, on Amos,
4° west, 11260 H 27500 3/4, id: Minimax Hungary
26/04/05: infocard from Alkass, new on Nilesat, 7° west, and Arabsat, 26° east, on the frequencies shown above.
29/04/05: A1 Plus, new channel from the former yugoslav republic of Macedonia, on Thor, 1° west,
12574 H 10127 3/4,
id: A1 PLUS, provider: MT, network: MPEG-2 Encoder
29/04/05: infocard from new movie channel from the Czech republic, CS Film, on Eurobird, 28° east, 12608 H 27500 3/4.
30/04/05: testcard from InteracTV, on Amos, 4° west, 11260 H 27500 3/4, id: Telemedia 2

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