Channel adjustments to blue TV as of June 7th, 2023

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Channel offering as follows
as of June 7th, 2023

TV channels:1

Radio Stations:

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Deactivations

TV channels:1

Trace Hits
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on April 28, 2023.
B1 TV (Romanian)
Reason: Channel no longer available on blue TV since May 4th, 2023.
Cooking TV (it)
Reason: Channel no longer available on blue TV since April 14, 2023.
Football TV (it)
Reason: Channel no longer available on blue TV since April 14, 2023.
BärnSPORT (de)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were stopped on June 15, 2023.
Sports TV (it)
Reason: HD is no longer available as of June 7th, 2023, the channel is still available in SD quality.
ALTAMEGA Plus (de, fr, en, it)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were stopped on June 1, 2023.
Nickelodeon Ukraine Pluto TV (Ukrainian)
Reason: Broadcasting operations will be discontinued on July 1, 2023

Radio Stations:

Zurich Party (en)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on May 3, 2023.
BBC Radio 1Xtra
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
my105 French Hits (fr)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on June 3, 2023.
BBC Radio 2 (en)
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
BBC Radio 6 Music
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
Lake Zurich Eighties (en)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on May 3, 2023.
BBC Radio 3 (en)
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
BBC Radio 1 (en)
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
Radio Milano International FM (it)
Reason: Channel no longer available on blue TV since May 26, 2023.
BBC Radio 4 (en)
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.
RADIO BERN1 80s (de)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on June 7, 2023.
RADIO BERN1 Rock (de)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on June 7, 2023.
my105 Italian Style (it)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on June 3, 2023.
RADIO BERN1 90s (de)
Reason: Broadcasting operations were discontinued on June 7, 2023.
BBC Radio 5 Live
Reason: Stream only available as HLS since June 15, 2023, therefore no longer available on blue TV.

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Liebe Grüsse / Salut et à bientôt / Ciao e a presto / Cheers, see you soon!
MirkoP

Two out of five premium channels that led to a price increase of 10 francs (Blue Premium I) compared to the top taliano + are already gone without replacement. Even if the channels were more at YouTube channel level, that’s not exactly fair when you see what the Blue Premium D contains. I hope this will be improved.

The sister station Trace Vault might be a good replacement for Trace Hits:

Trace Vault - LyngSat

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Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

Now this is a joke… hello really now? I don’t find that strange at all.

Nothing has been adjusted… I have 4 satellite receivers at home, believe me, there would be enough replacements for the channels that have been lost.

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Hmm, not exactly a fireworks display of innovations.

It would be cool to receive a few more channels in HD or, even better, Full HD.

Nothing can be done for Nordic broadcasters, I suppose.

cabonesha

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25 days later

I would offer the 9 channels in one fell swoop. 4 music channels and 4 documentary/lifestyle channels and 1 crime channel. Fits and free of charge. Swisscom should check this. All 9 come from Deluxe 👍

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Yes, it’s okay. But there are actually enough channels in German. We urgently need more Italian channels (especially pay channels for XXL). Italian is an official language of Switzerland, you pay exactly the same but the offer is significantly worse. In German you have Sky, in French you have Canal +. Almost nothing in Italian. This is simply unfair and cheeky.

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@CC1835 wrote:

Yes, it’s okay. But there are actually enough channels in German. We urgently need more Italian channels (especially pay channels for XXL).


As far as I know, pay TV in Italy is only available via Sky Italia. He probably doesn’t make any contracts with foreign TV broadcasters.

Glotzologist

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@CC1835 Unfortunately, as @Glotzologe writes, I also asked Sky Italia a few years ago, the Swiss market is probably too small and then there is a problem the right. Unfortunately, the Premium package is quite overpriced compared to the Top Italiano +, but I still hope that they can come up with something.

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Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

@Stonck13

can you watch channels in SD?

I’m so distracted by the poor image quality that I can’t concentrate on the content.

So my wish would be more channels in (Full) HD.

Or channels from countries that are not or only slightly represented: Belgium, Holland, or even Australia, America, South Africa etc…

cabonesha

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@Cabonesha wrote:

Or channels from countries that are not or only slightly represented: Belgium, Holland, or even Australia, America, South Africa etc…

cabonesha


Since I speak Dutch, I would like that too, but the problem is that there is nothing unencrypted via satellite, we already have BVN, and not even the regional Dutch or Belgian channels are available via satellite, from Australia and SAF There’s nothing there either, there’s another channel from South America that you could feed in, it’s free via satellite. This is Record News, a Brazilian news channel that other Swiss providers also have, but there is practically nothing from the USA or Canada. Scandinavia is also missing 😞

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Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

@Gaeilgeoir

That’s what I feared. I’ve discussed this before and you were able to tell me the reasons why this isn’t possible. But as we all know, hope dies last…

Luckily there is still VPN, which could make a lot possible, but not via SC….

cabonesha

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