Travel channels on digital telly ....

Jdubb

anyone in the know, know why they've all disappeared - not been on hols for a couple of years and was hoping to snag a bargain from one - is this just a blip, might they return soon?

delwynshd

you get some sky travel on Sky3 but never knew of any others, thats on freeview

Del

Jdubb

Thanks for that, yes there were a few and Sky's website is now redirecting its visitors to the holiday companies for any bookings. Tomas Cook also had a channel. Oh well, s'ose it's back to trawling through the websites :eek:

MrsBartolozzi

The travel channel is 251/252 on Sky.

One of the channels around 530ish had a bit about travel and holidays in their advert slot before the real programs start (iykwim). May have been Eden.

Also Travel and Living on 265.

withabix

Sky Travel stopped transmitting on 24th June.

It was only really a Cosmos brand anyway.

delwynshd

The holidays are always really expensive on the sky travel channel I think

withabix

I'm not sure why the main channels stopped doing 'travel'.

I know it was always difficult for the BBC to justify The Holiday Programme , as it erred too far towards advertising (and was nearly always top-end holidays that most of the population couldn't afford), but I thought that Departure Lounge (Nick Knowles and Simon Calder) was a good programme - only lasted one series in 2005 though.

BBC topped it off by even going as far as deleting all of the online travel content - even the links from the old travel pages to the archived pages now take you to something completely different - last time I looked for something, it took me to some yoof content about sex!

ITV's Wish You Were Here re-appeared briefly in 2008, but was ridiculous because it was filmed in a studio and just used old footage from old programmes filmed in the 70s and 80s iirc.

Sky Travel only had about ten 'programmes' - they were just re-edited every few weeks to show current offers. The 'holiday' footage was always the same.

There does seem to be room for a factual travel programme with someone like Simon Calder and Nick Knowles involved - a cross between Watchdog and Departure Lounge would probably be a good idea?

I can't stand 'Travel Channel', because it seems to be very low resolution - it must be the lowest bandwidth channel on Sky.

There is a show called Holiday Programme on Travel Channel, might even be live (???) as it has a phone-in - has Simon Calder on as well.

PS does anyone else think that Simon Calder looks like Wallace (as in Grommit) ?

littlereddevil

Jdubb wrote: »

Thanks for that, yes there were a few and Sky's website is now redirecting its visitors to the holiday companies for any bookings. Tomas Cook also had a channel. Oh well, s'ose it's back to trawling through the websites :eek:

You should give Delwyn on here a shout

Jdubb

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

The travel channel is 251/252 on Sky.

One of the channels around 530ish had a bit about travel and holidays in their advert slot before the real programs start (iykwim). May have been Eden.

Also Travel and Living on 265.

Thanks for that, will keep a look out

Jdubb

littlereddevil wrote: »

You should give Delwyn on here a shout

Have you used him happily?

Jdubb

delwynsholidaydeals wrote: »

The holidays are always really expensive on the sky travel channel I think

So a fellow consumer hereabouts recommended I ask for your help with my travel requirements, can you assist with a quote pls?