Your Sky box gets 13 TV channel changes this week as big shake-up confirmed

If you’ve suddenly noticed some of your favourite Sky channels aren’t where they used to be you are not alone. The popular TV provider has just confirmed a major shake-up to its telly planner with a total of 13 channels switching their current position and making the move to somewhere new.

Services affected include Animal Planet, PBS America and Disc. History with Sky explaining that those with and older HD boxes will be hit by the changes.

The update was announced on Sky's community pages, with the changes taking place this week. It's thought the idea behind the update is to tidy things up and make it easier to find these channels.

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If you have Sky Q or Sky HD the reboot should happen automatically so there's no need to start digging into the settings.

Here are all the channels that are changing and where their new positions will be on the planner.

Sky says that…

• PBS America moves from 174 to 173 on satellite only (Sky Glass and Stream not affected)

• Disc.History moves from 177 to 174 on satellite only

• Animal Planet moves from 178 to 175 in NI and in ROI on satellite only

• Court TV moves from 179 to 176 on satellite only

• Channel 7 moves from 181 to 177 on satellite only

• Travel XP moves from 182 to 178 on satellite only

• Ayozat TV moves from 186 to 179 on satellite only

• HD (ex Scot) moves from 187 to 180 on satellite only

• That's TV 2 moves from 188 to 181 on satellite only

• Rewind TV moves from 190 to 182 on satellite only

• That's TV 3 moves from 191 to 183 on satellite only

• Disc.History+1 moves from 277 to 274 on satellite only

• Animal Plnt+1 (NI / ROI) moves from 278 to 275 on satellite only

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Recordings should also be unaffected but if you have a show you're desperate not to miss it might be worth checking that its series link hasn't been turned off by mistake.

The update also only affects Sky Q and Sky HD boxes so if you have the latest Sky Stream or Sky Glass TV in your home you don't need to worry.