diff --git a/src/gui/channellist.cpp b/src/gui/channellist.cpp
index b23eb8102..44296613e 100644
--- a/src/gui/channellist.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/channellist.cpp
@@ -1699,6 +1699,7 @@ void CChannelList::paintDetails(int index)
 		}
 
 		if (!(text2.empty())) {
+			text2 = str_replace("\\n", " ", text2);
 			while ( text2.find_first_of("[ -.+*#?=!$%&/]+") == 0 )
 				text2 = text2.substr( 1 );
 			text2 = text2.substr( 0, text2.find('\n') );