In a move stemming from an ongoing legal dispute between Rapture TV and BSkyB Rapture has been dropped from the Sky Digital EPG. A statement from Rapture said

“In September 2006, Rapture TV launched a complaint about BSkyB’s excessive EPG charges with UK TV regulator OFCOM. OFCOM has now determined that BSkyB’s charges are ‘fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory’. Having reviewed the determination, Rapture TV made it clear that it would be looking at lodging an appeal at the Competitions and Appeals Tribunal, as they feel much of the evidence submitted was not taking into account and/or was treated outside the scope.”

“Rapture TV is looking forward to submitting their case to the Competitions and Appeals Tribunal and bringing in more evidence that OFCOM deemed to be out of the scope and expects an outcome that is in line with the evidence supplied.”

The full statement can be seen here. Since it’s re-launch in September 2005 Rapture has devoted prime air time to showing some of the latest anime series such as Fullmetal Alchemist and Wolf’s Rain and it is currently airing Excel Saga.

Hopefully Rapture’s appeal will be sucessful and they will return to the EPG but in the meantime they have provided instructions on how to manually tune the station.