Sky TV fans unlock new channels after NINE surprise...

SKY is dishing out some major channel changes for its TV customers. Telly fans will be saying hello to nine new channels across February – and waving goodbye to a load, too. The TV giant has revealed nine channel swaps for February 2025. This is when an existing channel is shut down and replaced with another.

Image Credit: The Sun [Sky TV guide showing today's programming.]

Sometimes it's a channel changing to something temporarily. And other times, it's a temporary channel reverting back – or swapping to something else entirely. Sky has at least nine of these swaps set for February, many of which have already kicked in.

Image Credit: The Sun [Sky remote control.]

For instance, Sky has just changed its Valentines channel to an Awards Season channel. And very soon, Sky's Harry Potter channel will be replaced with Sky Family. Here's the official change list for February 2025, along with the exact channel codes you'll want to type in to get them.

Monday, February 3. Saturday, February 8. Monday, February 10. Tuesday, February 11. Friday, February 14. Got Sky Q? There are some handy tricks worth knowing about... Find your lost TV remote. If you can't find your Sky Q remote, don't panic. Just press the Sky Q logo on the front of your TV box.

It's actually a button that will trigger your TV remote's built-in ringer. You'll get 30 seconds of beeping to find where you've dropped it. Hint: it's probably under the sofa cushion. Search movies by quotes. You might have already used voice search for controlling TV playback – but your remote's microphone has another clever trick.

It turns out that you can say movie quotes into the remote and Sky will find the film for you. This is handy if you can't remember the name of a top movie or show. Here's a list of movie quotes to try on Sky. Save lost recordings. Have you ever deleted something you'd recorded on Sky, only to regret it later?.

Or maybe someone in your family removed something without telling you – sparking a massive row. Don't panic: you can get them back. Just go to Recordings > Manage > Deleted and then simply hit Undelete on the item that you want to resurrect. If you do that, it'll return to your Recordings section as good as new.

Picture Credit: Sky. Sunday, February 16. Saturday, February 22. It's possible that Sky might roll out even more channel changes in February. The TV giant typically only serves up changes for the week ahead, so we might find out about channel swaps coming at the end of February very soon.