Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Why it’s things like premier sports, sky sports mix and paramount channel all on two different channels

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

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We are aware of the issue with the Premier sports channel and are working hard to get this resolved as soon as possible. ^LC

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Instead again of sport how about some free sky cinema bloody owe us

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

What the joke this weekend has been just because Virgin Media UK are asking an broadcaster who broadcasts BBC repeats - who we pay £150.50 per year for - to take cut in money Virgin pays and more On Demand box set.

But some viewers want Virgin to give in and pay more for BBC repeats. Just to keep 25% of Virgin viewers happy. (According to viewing figures).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Why does the weird channels replacing UKTV channels repeated further up the guide

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BBC News web site says that Virgin Media UK did offer to broadcast Drama, Dave, Really, Home and Yesterday but UKTV did remove the offer an the 11th hour.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44915060

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

This was posted by MB less than a week ago but seems to have been forgotten in the kerfuffle about the loss of the UKTV channels - unless it was about the loss of the UKTV channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Grown adults behaving like naughty children who don't get their own way..

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We are still working on it - waiting on more information.

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Well to me UKTV refusing to allow the free UKTV channels to air on virgin puts them in the wrong. They won’t bully me I can watch all material elsewhere just watched Wodney and wacquel only fools and horses, including on demand, come on uktv there are many ways we can get round this at a loss of profit to UKTV, keep up the good work

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

They are there temporarily holding places for uktv channels for when/if there is a resolution.

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So they will keep duplicates of the channels then for the foreseeable

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Right, let's make a start on correcting this:

- UKTV does not just 'broadcast BBC repeats'. While it admittedly is a high proportion of their shows, UKTV original productions like Taskmaster and others are not only highly viewed, but also award winning. There's also a significant number of US acquisitions and the like spread over the network.

- UKTV, while half owned by BBC, operates as an independent company. As such, the license fee doesn't go to UKTV in any way at all.

- '25% of Virgin viewers' is an amazingly incorrect data interpretation - and believe me, as data analysis is kinda my job! I'm assuming this comes from the numerous press releases that have flown back and forth, in which cas the quote in question is 'UKTV accounts for more than a quarter of all viewing to pay entertainment channels in Virgin's basic pay TV package'. This isn't the same a quarter of viewers, at all.

In the simplest terms, imagine a group of one hundred people. Let's say each of them watches TV each day for four hours, and one of those hours is spent watching a UKTV channel.

Total viewing across the one hundred people: 400 hours.
Total time viewing UKTV channels: 100 hours
Total proportion of time viewing UKTV channels: 25% (100/400)
Total number of people viewing UKTV channels: 100% (100/100)

So in that example, all the viewers are viewing UKTV shows, for the stated 'quarter of all viewing' time.

I'm not saying that everyone watches UKTV channels - that's just an example to prove the maths. I'm saying that we don't have that information, as 25% of time watched (which is what's being stated) isn't 25% of Virgin's customers. They're different things.

- Even if it WAS just 25% of Virgin Media's customers (which it isn't), then that's one million people who now aren't happy out of the stated four million customers. You'd be hard pressed to find any channel outside of Sky One that has over 50% of Virgin customers watching it regularly... so if we apply the same logic, every channel isn't watched by more than half the viewers, so every channel shouldn't be worried about.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Has anyone else noted that Virgin Media UK are missing channels out on the following Channels numbers.

EPG - Channels information
221.
223. Crime + Investigation may move from Chanel 275.
272. Why did Virgin not use this channel for HISTORY HD?
296. Why - what will launch here?
297. Why - what will launch here?
552. For Premier Sports 2 HD when it launches.

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Yeah history h2 and +1 and Hd variants all split up makes no sense.

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When does the contract for Columbia Pictures Corporation Get renewed due to all the missing channels and also Disney