diff --git a/interfaces/default/js/tvheadend.js b/interfaces/default/js/tvheadend.js
index 3b62fc484..1862fa624 100644
--- a/interfaces/default/js/tvheadend.js
+++ b/interfaces/default/js/tvheadend.js
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ function getChannelTags() {
 				
 			$(".tab-content").append(strTabPane.append($("<ul>").attr("id", "tag-" + pEntry.identifier + "-grid").attr("class", "thumbnails")));
 		});
+		
+		getChannels();
 	});
 	
 	$(window).trigger("hashchange");
@@ -142,6 +144,5 @@ function getRecordings() {
 
 $(document).ready(function () {
 	getChannelTags();
-	getChannels();
 	getRecordings();
 });
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diff --git a/modules/tvheadend.py b/modules/tvheadend.py
index 9f1a651aa..9c903bf41 100644
--- a/modules/tvheadend.py
+++ b/modules/tvheadend.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def GetEPG(self, strLimit = "300", strChannel = ""):
 	@cherrypy.expose()
 	@cherrypy.tools.json_out()
 	def GetChannels(self):
-		return self.fetch("api/channel/grid", None)
+		return self.fetch("api/channel/grid", { 'dir': 'ASC', 'sort': 'tags', 'limit': 1000 })
 	
 	@cherrypy.expose()
 	@cherrypy.tools.json_out()
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def fetch(self, strQuery, rgpData):
 		try:
 			pRequest = urllib2.Request("http://%s:%s/%s" % (htpc.settings.get("tvheadend_host", ""), htpc.settings.get("tvheadend_port", ""), strQuery), data = strData, headers = rgpHeaders)
 			strResponse = urllib2.urlopen(pRequest).read()
-		except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
-			print e
+		except:
+			pass
 
 		return json.loads(strResponse)
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