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Apparently Travel Channel is closing as part of Discovery's new deal with Sky meaning they don't need to keep it running for contractual reasons anymore.
https://rxtvinfo.com/travel-channel-closes-down

Also in the OFCOM report on EPG accessibility a little nugget of information on Horizon OS.

Virgin Media has promised enhancements to its EPG as part of its new Horizon platform in the “second half of 2021”.

https://rxtvinfo.com/ofcom-mixed-ver...-accessibility

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blooming heck second half of 2021...hasnt it been "coming" for the last 3 years? whys it taking so long?!

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No. It's just been people speculating VM would adopt Liberty's system on their other networks, VM have never been particularly concrete and only said more definite things in last year and a bit.

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That article is inaccurate.

Travel Channel has not 'closed down' - it has simply been removed from Sky.

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Probably contractual again, this time with VM. If it's not on Sky's EPG or Freesat's, it can't be long left in existence. The UK version that is.

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Other TV channels like MTV Live, Love Nature and H&C broadcast on VM but not Sky, so its perfectly reasonable for Travel Channel to do so for as long as VM are happy to pay.

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I agree. I wasn't suggesting VM don't have or aren't willing to have exclusive channels. Simply that maybe their current contract with Discovery is all that's keeping Travel Channel (UK) open now that Sky has a new contract that doesn't include it.

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That may well be the case. A shame that the article incorrectly says that it has closed down, like VM doesn't exist!

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It is in the satellite news section and does say "Travel Channel closes on Sky" 3-4 times. But no mention of VM.

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They have changed the article now, including the headline, as it was previously just the misleading and inaccurate 'Travel Channel closes down'.

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If its gone on Sky its very much likely to go on other platforms at some point in the future.

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I think VM is the only platform left.

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Someone has posted elsewhere that the Travel Channel will be removed from Virgin Media at the end of August. There is no source provided, but could very well be true.

I'm glad that Virgin Media has held on to MTV Live which was removed from Sky in 2016.

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Digital Bit Rate is reporting that Virgin Media are set to an new HD Channel for.....




Wait for it!


Get Moving.

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:D:D

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That'll delight people :D

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https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...&sec=0&lang=en

It broadcasting on an HD Stream (CO72) beside "Premier 2 HD, Virgin TV Highlights, Sky Sports Racing HD, LaLiga TV and Sky Comedy HD"

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l can sense some of the forum tuts now.;)

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I think Virgin are launching an HD Channel for Get Moving is due to Channel 997 being an only channel still not broadcasting in MPEG4 (Channel 997 is broadcasting in MPEG2 ON CO70 - https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...ve=209&lang=en)

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WTF is get moving............:rolleyes:

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MadMax's house will resonate with the celebratory popping of champagne corks, interrupted only by his penning a hearfelt thank-you email to VM's CEO. :D

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Brilliant......:D

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You better get your lycra on for it MM.:D:D

https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...itness-channel

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Some VM customers with older boxes have now had all their channels removed apart from channels 1 to 5. Some will be able to upgrade for free to a V6 box.

Call waiting times are said to be two hours plus on the Virgin Media Community Forum.

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Worth the wait for a V6

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What amazes me about all this is how many have been complaining about having no prior warning.

It's one thing to not get emails, that can happen very easily. And physical by-post mail can get mistaken for junk mail and binned. But there have been on-screen messages.

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Yeah tbf to VM they've been pretty good in letting people know, yes i know huge shock i'm giving vm a bit of praise lol.

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:D

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Maybe some were afraid of becoming infected by the new equipment??

Either way, with the fallout continuing from Covid 19, it was a dumb idea to still go through with it

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Considering the V box swap outs have been going on for at least 4 years and I'm pretty sure the messages to customers for the boxes that stopped working this week have been there in one form or another for a good six months or more, I can't see why anyone would connect it to Covid.

As for the timing it has been delayed as much as it could - which is again why it's take 4 years to complete. Unfortunately sometimes technical changes have to happen no matter the circumstances.

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Pershaps there were licencing (i.e. cost) implications of not doing it now. I'd imagine very few customers have these as their main boxes anymore (though it doesn't seem that long ago that VM were offering them as 2nd boxes). The number of boxes in circulation probably no longer justifies the cost of paying for the software licences etc.

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[B]What's the full list of VM exclusive channels, just out of interest?

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Agreed. A vaccine's some time off so it's not like waiting a couple of weeks, it would be more like a couple of years.

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[QUOTE=TheWatcher;36042326]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 36041847) Other TV channels like MTV Live, Love Nature and H&C broadcast on VM but not Sky, so its perfectly reasonable for Travel Channel to do so for as long as VM are happy to pay.]

Price rise tv
Price rise+1
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Not initally no, but since the beginning of this year, absolutely. To do something that would be known to cause extra calls to the call centres whilst there are social distancing measures in place that reduces the number of staff available seems daft.

There will always be some people that don't get round to doing things until they absolutely have to, or for some technical reason want to keep the old box for as long as they possibly can, such as heero yuy.

Are some CS staff now working from home to help alleviate this?

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Again, it has been delayed until there was no alternative. As I said this last batch of customer that needed to swap have had notifications of one form or another for most of this year.
Some of Virgin's call centre staff have been working from home with appropriate security and protections for customer's data since the lockdown started. That's why the call centres never completely closed.

https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...work-from-home

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If there was a techincal reason then they have had four years to point it out.

If they didn't get round to it after four years - tough!

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He did, heero has said it a few times.

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Personal Picks document updated:

https://www.virginmedia.com/content/..._July_2020.pdf

Sky Documentaries HD and Sky Nature HD removed from the Documentaries Pick, so confirms they are Full House / Maxit only.

Investigation Discovery (ID) on 168 is missing from the Documentaries Pick.

It still includes Nat Geo WILD on 264 which hasn't been available for ages, as it's now only on HD.

The ordering in the Lifestyle Pick is quite jumbled, going 179 - 181 - 194 - 195 - 180 - 182 - 183.

For the Personal Picks VM is considering Discovery Shed to be Documentaries but in the EPG it's Lifestyle.

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2 channels will be removed from VM on 20th July according to the EPG:

Vice on 219
H&C (Horse & Country) on 293

Both were added on 21st July 2018 during the UKTV channels dispute.

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I shouldn't think they will be missed. I expect the viewer figures were very low.

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Wouldn't be surprised if Vice (UK) is closing on all platforms.
Shame, it's the only broadcast outlet for animé. Overall channel ratings aren't good though.

Thanks for heads-up SonicMaster.

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Vice has released schedules to end of August so far.

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vice is great. some really interesting and unique shows.

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Agreed i really enjoy Cyberwar on the US version i believe Channel 4 has cyberwar in uk.

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Since July 7th Get Moving has gone HD on Virgin Media Channel 997 making it the last UK Wide broadcasting channel to go MPEG4.

Only 16 Local Channels are still broadcasting in MPEG2 they are:

-London Live (In Bromley, Croydon, Haringey, Hayes, Hersham, Lewisham, Seven Kings and Watford areas only.)
-NOTTS TV (In Nottingham areas only.)
-Latest TV (In Sussex areas only.)
-SLTV (In Sheffield and Rotherham areas only.)
-NVTV (In Belfast areas only).
-Bristol TV (In Bristol areas only).
-Cardiff TV (In Cardiff areas only).
-Leeds TV (In Kirklees and Leeds areas only).
-Tyne and Wear TV (In Gateshead and Wearside areas only).
-Liverpool TV (In Liverpool, Wirral, Warrington, Burnley and Preston (part) areas only).
-That's TV Norfolk (In Norwich areas only).
-Birmingham TV (In Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas only).
-That's TV Cambridge (In Cambridge areas only).
-That's TV Swansea Bay (In Swansea areas only).
-Teesside TV (In Teeside areas only).
-KMTV (In Ashford, Basildon and Crawley areas only).
-That's TV Humber (In Grimsby areas only).

Local TV Channels can be found on Virgin Channel 159. (No local Channel broadcasts in your area if you can't get channel 159 on your box).

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As far as I know:

-Paramount Network HD
-4Seven HD
-Virgin TV Ultra HD (Only on V6 Boxes).
-Eden HD
-Love Nature HD
-Travel Channel
-Horse + Country TV
-MTV Live HD
-NHK World Japan
-TJC HD
-Desi Entertainment (Only on V6 Boxes).
-NDTV Good Times? (Channel maybe on Sky)
-Al Jazeera Arabic
-NDTV Spice
-Get Moving HD

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Animal Planet HD
Lifetime HD
ITVBe HD
TCM HD

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Personal Picks corrected:

https://www.virginmedia.com/content/...uly_8_2020.pdf

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NHK World Japan isn't a VM exclusive MB, it's on Sky and Freesat.

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OMG - Lifetime HD is only on Virgin?

Sky part own it with A&E (also own Blaze, Crime & Investigation and Sky History)

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Oops

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Yep they ditched it last year.

Mind you we did have H2 then History2 exclusively in HD for a while.

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It's on BT and plusnet too as is TCMHD.

https://www.plus.net/help/tv/channel...el-packs-list/

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TiVo EPG listings has revealed that Sky Cinema Premiere +1 will close on July 22nd at 6am on Virgin UK Channel 412.

---------- Post added at 00:45 ---------- Previous post was at 00:25 ----------

Sky Forum has revealed that some Sky Cinema Channels are set to move to new channels numbers on Sky from July 23rd so Virgin Media UK may follow:

-Sky Cinema Animation launches on 405*
-Sky Cinema Disney moves to 407
-Sky Cinema Action moves to 408
-Sky Cinema Comedy moves to 409
-Sky Cinema Thriller moves to 410
-Sky Cinema Drama moves to 411
-Sky Cinema Sci-Fi & Horror moves to 412

All Channel numbers listed here are what Virgin Media may give them from July 23rd.

If Virgin do not follow Sky then Sky Cinema Animation will launch on Virgin UK Channel 412.

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-...0/td-p/3381032 (See post TWO on link)

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Pluto TV app now available on Virgin Media:

https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...s-pluto-tv-app

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It has shown up on one of my boxes - which had juast rebooted.

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Im surprised Sky Cinema Disney is still on air. I thought it would’ve gone as part of Sky’s new deals with Disney.

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The output deal is still running so would imagine it’s not going anywhere until that elapses... on the face of it the new animation channel appears to be the eventual successor for when they choose to shut it down.

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VM just tweeted that Sky Cinema has been integrated into the VM TV Go app, for anyone it's of interest to.
https://twitter.com/VirginMediaCorp/...09569266016256

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Maybe the rest of the deal 'UHD' will be added soon as well :)

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So does this mean that VM customers no longer have access to the Sky Cinema app?

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https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...o/td-p/4325332

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To be fair I'm not sure there's that many Sky users who still use the Sky Cinema app its all available on Sky Go these days. It would not shock me if Sky discontinued it.

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never really understood why sky wanted all these separate apps. i wonder if sky sports will follow suit? but then again they claim they provide news in the app as well...which ive always not really been a fan of. id rather just go to bbc sport

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I've had a look at the Pluto app on the V6 but it doesnt seem to have the 4K channel which is on the Pluto app on the Nvidea Shield.

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Is that not a US exclusive channel?

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Apparently, MTV OMG, Club MTV & MTV Rocks will close at 6am on 20/7/20.

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l don't watch them anyway so them not being there won't make a ounce of difference.

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Probably a sign of things to come with the advent of music videos on YouTube and Amazon Music Unlimited among others.

The picture quality is poor and ad breaks make them poorer

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I wouldn't say the PQ on MTV is too bad at all, and it's not as if you're necessarily wanting 1080p HD on it anyway..

As for the ad breaks, well they're no worse than Heart-FM which people don't seem to mind...

Shame if those channels go, personally.

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I’m definitely spoiled with MTV Live HD and no ad breaks
Then Amazon introduced up to 4K music videos with unlimited music

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That's being really picky of sky! They really don't want us to have the pick of the bunch yOFgood TV in HD OR 4K LOL 😂

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Now confirmed on Channels.

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Base on information we have seen in the past week Sky might be about to rebranding PICK.

Also Radio Times has confirmed that Sky Cinema Animation HD will launch on Virgin Media on Thursday but have got the channel numbers mix up.

Saturday to Wednesday Radio Times says Sky Cinema Animation HD will be on Channel 412. But From Thursday Radio Times have got Sky Cinema Sci-Fi and Horror HD listed as being on Channel 412.

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I think Radio Times has got itself mixed up. Sky Cinema Animation does not start until Thursday, and then it's certainly on channel 412.

Sky Cinema Sci-Fi/Horror is on channel 411 throughout, according to TV & Satellite Week, which is more reliable IMHO.

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What’s Pick being rebranded to?

Also there are 3 unknown channels testing on Sky, I think one of them maybe NBC Sky World News

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When Sky has been mentioning it on their TV Twitter feed recently they called it Sky Pick. And there had been instances of that naming when the FTA football was first announced.

Whether they actually do the rebrand properly in the end is another matter, they may just be associating the two brands during the football.

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NBC Sky World News? Tell me more....?

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MTV OMG! and MTV Rocks were cut off with the VirginTV slate around 20 past midnight, but Club MTV continued until the end at 4am.
Over on Sky all 3 channels played until 4am.

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MTV Rocks was the one channel that I watched and had watched when it was originally M2 gutted no more Indy or rock for 40 the something type person

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What a tragedy......:D

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You mean as in STEPS' Tragedy? :D

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Crikey l never knew you were that old.;)

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YouTube may be the go-to place for you. Or dust off the CD collection.

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Spotify was recently rumoured to be adding a video service. If true, that could be another option.

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Amazon Music Unlimited on FireTV Stick has Music vids now

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Tidal has some high quality video's as well
I'm using a free 2 month trial at the moment

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Sky Cinema Animation HD has replaced Sky Cinema Premiere +1 on 412.

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It's scrambled for me on Full House. AFAIK non movie subscribers are to receive this on Sky :(

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The VM news page says it's free to Sky Cinema subscribers, so the wider availability on Satellite isn't happening on Cable.

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Not at all, it is included in the SKY Cinema pack on SKY too not all SKY customers are getting it.

SKY Cinema has announced the launch of Sky Cinema Animation – a new permanent channel offering the latest family-friendly animated movies. The channel is available for all customers at no extra cost effective immediately. ... Sky Cinema Animation is avaible to Sky Cinema subscribers, and through Sky Cinema Pass on NOW TV.

https://advanced-television.com/2020...ema-animation/

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There was some wording in the press which suggested otherwise, which is probably what Richard saw too. I thought it unlikely, but it was strangely phrased.

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:D
I'm impressed someone was watching those niche channels at that niche viewing time!

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Yeah some press really need to word things better.

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Don't be too impressed, I recorded all 3 whilst I was tucked up in bed :D .

I'm showing my age again, I have a soft spot for MTV. When Sky (Astra) launched in 1989 MTV was all us kids watched. Great memories of what once was a great channel. I tend to stick to MTV Classic and Now 80's now-a-days to have on in the background .;)

There was some effort from MTV UK with the closure of the 3 channels, with 'Goodbye' themed shows.

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TiVo has reveal that Sony Channel +1 will close on Virgin UK Channel 220 on July 31st at 6am.

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Thanks. I was expecting something to happen with it. I was 50/50 between closure and it moving to the recently vacated Sony Crime Channel slot so it would be closer to the main Sony Channel.

I wonder if Sony will "pocket the savings" (i.e. this was simply a cost cutting move) or use the stream to launch Pop Max or one of the two Sony Movie +1s that aren't currently on VM?

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No idea what will happen to slot no new channels are testing on DBR right now.

But JJ20X may know more via his scanners.

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Reports say that Sony Movies Classics will become Sony Movies Christmas from September 24th 2020 to January 4th 2021 on Virgin UK Channel 424.

Also NOW 80s will become NOW Christmas from November 20th to December 26th on Virgin UK Channel 346.

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Christmas from late September.:nono::nono:

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Better not look at Movies24 right now then denphone. :D

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l just have..:shocked: