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Its right there in my profile :)
I also have IPTV, and "other" services ;)

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hahah i never checked that as i always thought it wasnt serious haha. seen a load of people with telewest services in their profile haha.

ahh okay interesting thanks

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Are idnet good? as been looking at them as they're on city fibre network and 4th utility are terrible.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

I've only been with them since the summer, but not had any issues.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

Thanks will give them a try.

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what do we expect from virgin media in 2026? other than price rises etc...

any new channels? any new apps?

are any football rights changing from May next year?

My predictions: absolutely nothing changes except TNT Sports will be bought out by Amazon so Amazon can get their hands on EPL rights and TNT Sports are losing a lot of football rights at once....

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I somehow don't see amazon ending up with TNT Sports.....

The only new app I can see getting added is possibility HBO Max in late March.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/hbo-max...ry-1236634223/

Looks like Sky One is back in February
[https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_107317579

I'd guess the 24th.

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More FAST channels to fill up the EPG as more and more channels leave or close.

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Did anything ever come about the sky one to return rumour?

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Believed to be happening next February.

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. . . the 30th

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My educated guess is 24th February

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any sources about sky one?? nothing i can find and even wikipedia hasnt been updated about it haha. wikipedia is so reliable too...

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There is nothing official re Sky One, its just speculation.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

i forgot about HBO Max. I assume it'll be free for sky customers or something like that and we'll have to pay for it as virgin media customers haha

what do you think will happen with TNT Sports mate?

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Only ads version which is up to 6 mins of ads per hour.

No idea what happens to TNT Sports long term, apparently TNT Sports International comes under Warner Bros Streaming & Studios

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Agreed. I have seen nothing that persuades me to believe that the Sky channels will be re-structured or have their names changed.

I thought initially that perhaps Sky Atlantic might change its name to reflect the fact that the new HBO material will be shown only on HBO Max, with Sky left only with the HBO material already available to them at the time of the new streamer’s launch in the UK. However, the latest on that from Sky is that SA will remain as it is, but bolstered by more Sky Originals.

In short, Sky is not restructuring its channel lineup at this time, but simply adding the HBO Max service as an integrated part of its entertainment packages.

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Some of Sky Original Comedy on Sky Comedy that was originally on Sky One have had the exipry dates changed to 23rd February.

Also they are testing a pub/commercial of Sky Max, only Sky Sports channels and Sky Showcase, Don't need both doing the same thing.

The plan appears to be for Entertainment channels is downplay the brands

In newer shows On Demand already even in HD, there is no channel intro, just "Sky'

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what does a pub/commercial of sky max mean? like no adverts?

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The following channels will close soon on Virgin Media UK:

December 31st - 6am:
*MTV Live HD
*MTV Music
*Club MTV
*MTV 80s
*MTV 90s

January 1st - 6am:
*Pop
*High Street TV (Shopping channel)

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More channels closing nothing coming...

so what content will HBO Max have from March? friends and big bang theory by the looks of it? anything else?

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

HBO content that is on Sky channels...including ones that originally launched on Sky e.g House Of The Dragon, The Last Of Us , Welcome To Derry, The Chair Company , Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, the DC Universe, New Line Cinema, Max Originals and Adult Swim

This is Germany and Italy, other than the launch date its basically the same.
https://press.wbd.com/us/media-relea...tent_entity=en

Sky rights to a lot of back catalogue exipre on 25th March e.g Game Of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire , True Detective 1-3 , The Wire, The Sopranos, Barry , Curb, Succession etc

HBO Max does acquire shows in other countries so will see what happens there.

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Yes, this is what I have always thought, and after the change to IPTV, my view is that all BBC programmes will be categorised by content rather than channels, similarly for ITVX, 4 and 5. Channel names are redundant in a streaming only environment (FAST channels excepted).

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Sky especially should drop channel branding

Evil and Fear The Walking Dead are added to Sky Max in the next couple of weeks and I don't anyone knows what that brand means either.

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Does anyone care about the channel names anymore ?
Surely they just look for something, whatever channel its on, and watch it.

If we're looking for something in our house we generally refer to channel number, i.e. its on 105 or 402 etc.

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We just look it up by programme title.

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one of the things i hate is the sky sports channels naming convention. "check out the football on....sky sports cricket"

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Media Boy UK Best of and Virgin Media UK review of 2025:

01) The Biggest poster of the year on Cable Forum (NOT Media Boy UK):
Winner is - vincerooney - with 114 posts

02) Best new Channel launch of the year:
Winner is - Cruise 1st TV (Did launch January 5th)

03) Best Channel rebrand of the year:
Winner is - SONY SAB HD (Was SONY SAB)

04) Best channel Virgin Media drop to launch HD Channel of the year:
Winners is - Premier Sports Rugby HD (Did launch March 25th)

05) Best UK Channel of the year:
Winner is - U&GOLD

06) Best LOCAL Channel of the year:
Winner is - That's TV Local

07) Best new brand of the year:
Winner is - 5 HD (Was Channel 5 HD - REBRANDED March 12th)

Well done to all the winners.

So merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone who viewed a "Coming soon to Virgin TV" thread this year.

Virgin Media UK year in review:

Channels we said Hello to:
*Dec 8th: Classica
*Dec 8th: DJazz
*Sep. 2nd: CSI on Pluto TV^
*Jun 24th: British Screen Classics^
*Jun 24th: WedoTV Movies^
*Jun 9th: ITV Quiz HD
*May 1st: High Street TV Shop
*Apr 3rd: Rakuten TV Top Movies^
*Apr 3rd: Rakuten TV Action^
*Apr 2nd: That's Belfast (local area only)
*Apr 2nd: That's South Yorkshire (Local area only)
*Mar 25th: Premier Sports Rugby
*Mar 7th: Red Bull TV^
*Feb 28th: Wonder^
*Feb 28th: BBC One South HD (Brighton area only)
*Feb 28th: ITV1 Meridian HD (Brighton area only)
*Feb 4th: Hell's Kitchen^
*Feb 4th: Eggheads Love Pets^
*Jan 5th: Cruise1st TV

^FAST Channel.

Channels on the move:
*Mar 7th: TNT Sports 1 HD moved from Virgin UK Channel 527 to Virgin UK Channel 521.
*Mar 7th: TNT Sports 2 HD moved from Virgin UK Channel 528 to Virgin UK Channel 522.
*Mar 7th: TNT Sports 3 HD moved from Virgin UK Channel 529 to Virgin UK Channel 523.
*Mar 7th: TNT Sports 4 HD moved from Virgin UK Channel 530 to Virgin UK Channel 524.
*Mar 7th: TNT Sports UHD moved from Virgin UK Channel 531 to Virgin UK Channel 525.

Channels rebrand (For Good):
*Nov 11th: Virgin Media UK rebrand Great British Menu as Inside Outside^
*Oct 3rd: Virgin Media UK rebrand Gems TV as Gemporia.
*Sep 4th: Virgin Media UK rebrand GREAT! movies as GREAT! mystery
*Apr 14th: Virgin Media UK rebrand MTV Hits as Club MTV
*Mar 12th: Virgin Media UK rebrand Channel 5 HD as 5 HD
*Mar 12th: Virgin Media UK rebrand Channel 5 +1 as 5 +1
*Feb 4th: Virgin Media UK rebrand Baby TV as Baby TV HD
*Feb 4th: Virgin Media UK rebrand SONY SAB as SONY SAB HD
*Jan 21st: Virgin Media UK rebrand Love Drama as Love Pets^
*Jan 20th: Virgin Media UK rebrand London Live as London TV

^FAST Channels

Channels we say Goodbye to:
*Dec 12th: Pluto TV [Virgin Media V6 boxes only.]^
*Oct 30th: Sky Replay
*Sep 2nd: CSI: New York
*Aug 29th: Notts TV [Local area only - Not on TiVo boxes.]
*Jun 9th: ITVBe HD
*Jun 9th: ITVBe +1
*Jun 9th: DAZN Womens Football^
*Jun 5th: Islam Channel Urdu
*May 1st: NHK News World HD
*Apr 10th: Sky History +1
*Apr 2nd: NVTV
*Apr 2nd: Sheffield Live
*Mar 31st: TasteMade^
*Feb 28th: Real Life^
*Feb 28th: Eurosport 1 HD
*Feb 28th: Eurosport 2 HD
*Jan 28th: VEVO^

Who Posted on Changes to Virgin TV (2025)?

NO: > Poster name > Number of posts > [Last year number on list] (As of 12pm on December 23rd 2025).

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02) Media Boy UK - 104 [02]
03) OLD BOY - 89 [05]
03) RichardCoulter - 89 [03]
05) TimeLord2018 - 71 [06]
06) Paul - 52 [09]
07) epsilon - 49 [01]
08) Itshim - 48 [08]
09) ozsat - 44 [10]
10) Mr K - 41 [11]

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14) SonicMaster - 17 [14]
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16) nodrogd - 11 [16]
16) Hugh - 11 [21]
17) Dingbat - 9 [28]
18) Mobes - 7 [NE]
19) japitts - 6 [NE]
19) Frazz - 6 [20]
21) Carth - 5 [NE]
22) djmagnifique - 4 [21]
22) denphone - 4 [23]
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24) newapollo - 3 [44]
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24) MrP - 3 [28]
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Huzzah! After almost 19 years I’ve finished top of the leader board. On a year where nothing really happened… but I’ll take it!

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

3 posts from me :woot:

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Merry Christmas to all posters, readers and staff.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

Merry christmas mate. Hope its a good one!

does anyone think a ton of bbc and itv archives are being wasted? I see tons of episodes of classic eastenders and classic coronation street on youtube and they get shut down due to copyright strikes.

Is there a reason why itv and bbc dont monetise the archives? for example even if they dont want to upload to itv player or iplayer or britbox why not upload to youtube? get something back at least

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

I can guess why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residu...nment_industry)

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hmm thought in the streaming world old contracts dont cover it?

for example wwe wrestlers used to get paid whenever dvds or videos with them on were sold. But with streaming they got a ton less it was like a token amount

i suppose with all the episodes out there it may still add up

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One of the proposals for helping with BBC funding is for archive material to be made available for a fee.

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Quite a lot of the comedy/drama archive from BBC (and ITV) is now showing on the free channels on Freeview, VirginMedia linear and stream, and on Sky linear - but most is NOT available on Sky Stream/Glass.

VirginMedia is missing Rewind TV - but so is Sky Stream. Sky Stream also missing Talking Pictures and the That's family.

In the US they still have Britbox which has now added BBC documentary content to it's top tier.

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Does 'archive material' fall under the same label as 'repeats' do you think?

Because we've been paying for those all the time :D

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It's material over a year old.

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aah . . so yes, it's repeats :D

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In its heyday, people complained endlessly about repeats on TV channels!

Funny how people tend to want things only when they have gone, despite railing against them at the time.

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and will then gladly pay for them . . apparently. ;)

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how intriguing. i'd love to see what theyve actually got locked down in the archives.

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I think that this was because there were only 3 channels, also there's a world of difference between something originally shown a year ago and something from the 1960/70's.

BBC4 is improving since being repositioned as an archive channel, instead of things from the last few years they're now showing things that are a lot older eg Play for Today, Parkinson that i've enjoyed.

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Currently, the main channels are full of repeats from programmes shown just a few days ago. With catch-up tv there is really no need for this - they just don't want to make new programmes.

Going back to repeats from 30+ years ago is a different issue and many have never seen these programmes.

Looking at the schedules of Talking Pictures, That's TV and Rewind TV - U& should be able to see that there was more than just Only Fools & Horses.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

Last day of MTV music :cry:

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

I would like to wish everyone all the best for the new year.

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Removed bang on 6am and replaced by 'Channel no longer available' slates instead of what's being broadcast by MTV on satellite. Must have been on a timer, unless Spiderplant got up very early this morning :D

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Even though their EPG is still populated, the High Street shopping channel on channel 759 has been removed.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

Pop on Channel 736 has now been removed from Virgin. Those who don't pay extra for the Kids Pack now only have access to the two BBC children's channels.

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And POP and Tiny POP on Rakuten (along with others).
And POP on Pluto (along with others).
And ITV Kids on ITVX.

The whole reason the channels are closing is because less and less people are using linear channels. It is cheaper to stream.

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

Is anything going to replace the MTV channels

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

No, and a VM discount will immediately be implemented for the loss ;)

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

With all this free capacity, it would be nice to get more HD and 4K.

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sad isnt it. ive got my contract down mind for 2 years. no extra goodies this time though

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i watch virgin media tv in my bedroom. i have no wall to mount it on. i can never get anything more than a 32inch tv (which is huge to me anyway) so it means i can never get a 4k tv!

Re: Virgin TV (2025)
 

If anything, more additions are likely through the FAST channel route as costs are lower for the channel owners. Of course the downside is you lose the ability to record, but most of these services consist of constant repeats anyway.

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I think Virgin will get them for free (they may even get paid to carry them as they do with Freeview channels & radio stations) as FAST channel owners are able to monetise the fact that people can't stop the adverts being played.

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