Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

It looks like 2013 is the year for channels, nice we seem to be getting all the +1 ones that we have been missing as well :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Keep an eye on http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...wednesday.html for all the latest confirmed new channels numbers for the Viacom channels from Wednesday.

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I am a long time subscriber of your blog MB :)

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May List update - May 28th update.

Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches and other important events across all platforms of Virgin TV network.

NOTE: I do not work for Virgin Media so all the information on this list is subject to change.

Colours on my list are as followed:

Media Boy = New Info just added.
Media Boy = Virgin Media News and links.
Media Boy = Other Media news/Things.

=== Coming up on Virgin's Digital TV ===
=== Rumour to be Launching very soon ===
-The Active Channel to launch on Virgin Media soon.

=== May ===
29th. Comedy Central HD will move from Virgin Channel 133 to Virgin Channel 181.
29th. Comedy Central +1 will move from Virgin Channel 134 to Virgin Channel (Not yet known).
29th. MTV will move from Virgin Channel 311 to Virgin Channel 134.

=== June ===
10th. Zee Café to be rebranded as Limbe on Virgin Channel 811 today.

=== By end of June ===
-Liberty Global hope to close the transaction of Virgin Media.

=== July ===
31st. ESPN will close on Virgin Channel 529 today.
31st. ESPN HD will close on Virgin Channel 530 today.
31st. ESPN America will close on Virgin Channel 531 today.
31st. ESPN to close ESPN Classic on Virgin Channel 533 by Today.

=== August ===
The following BT Sports channels launches has still to be confirmed by Virgin Media - Talks still ongoing:

1st. BT Sports 1 may launch on Virgin Media today.
1st. BT Sports 1 HD may launch on Virgin Media today.
1st. BT Sports 2 may launch on Virgin Media today.
1st. BT Sports 2 HD may launch on Virgin Media today.
1st. ESPN may launch on Virgin Media today.
1st. ESPN HD may launch on Virgin Media today.

=== September ===
No News...

=== October ===
No News...

=== November ===
-Made in Leeds will launch on Virgin Media sometime this month.

=== December ===
No News...

=== By 2015 ===
-RTE Radio and WRN Radio will be axe in old Telewest areas or added to all areas of Virgin Media.

=== Unknown dates ===
-'Seven' will be rebranded as Lincolnshire Living on Virgin Channel 879 (Grimsby & Scunthorpe only).
-I have been told that Virgin Media are in talks with Sky to carry 'Sky Atlantic SD', 'Sky News HD' and 'Sky Sports News HD' - no updates since August 2012.
-Local TV may launch on Virgin TV in some areas in Virgin Channels 600 mark (Starting in Late 2013).
-The BBC to axe BBC Radio 4 LW on Virgin Channel 911 ''in the long term''.
-Smooth fm (Smooth Radio) may get close or rebranded on Virgin Channel 916.
-Fashion One 'In talks with Virgin Media' - no updates in months.
-Sony Movies may launch soon on Virgin Media - no updates since August 2012.

=== Channels THAT still to appear in all areas ===
List was last updated on December 1st 2010.

NO. Channel Name
917. Radio: RTE Radio
920. Radio: WRN Europe

NOTE: Channels are only broadcasting in Ex-Telewest areas right now.

=== Media Boy Extra info: ===
Media Boy Blog - For all things Virgin TV - http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.com/
See Virgin Media on ''twitter'' here - http://twitter.com/virginmedia
See Nialli's blog on Virgin Media High Definition & TiVo Services here - http://vmhd.blogspot.com/

==== Virgin Media's Deals with broadcasters ===
This part has now move to link called 'Own by'.

==== See you later ===
List last updated on May 28th 2013.

Next update: On Wednesday - unless:

A) If Virgin are set to launch more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) on Virgin TV.
B) If Virgin are set to move more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) about on Virgin TV.
C) If Virgin are set to close or repackage more then TWO channels (TV or Radio ) on Virgin TV.

Did I miss anything??? If I did tell me and it will appear on the next update.

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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

I fail so see how my comment is responded to with 'no'.

BT Sport is the company, I didn't specify a channel by saying 1, 2 or ESPN so my comment was correct.

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Yes me too as beware of any imitations.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Sorry - I misread your post.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Why is it that these broadcasters want there HD channels miles away from their SD Channels?!? Makes no sense! I thought Comedy Central had it good how they put the HD before the +1.

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Not confirmed but I think Viacom have ask them to move Comedy Central HD so that Comedy Central Extra can move to Channel 133 from tomorrow.

So the top three Viacom channels numbers will be for:

132. Comedy Central
133. Comedy Central Extra
134. MTV

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Sounds logical

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Is this just on the HD version or both SD and HD?

---------- Post added at 15:43 ---------- Previous post was at 15:39 ----------

I would have thought that they would have launched a few of/all of them at once. I hope that this doesn't mean that the new carriage deal still excludes the missing channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Breaking News: Virgin have struck a deal to launch Beige - a brand new channel to light up your home. It follows on from the equally exciting launches of Zee Café and History...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Going by some of the other recent additions, VM seem to take a little longer to launch HD channels but that doesn't explain why Bio +1 and CI +1 didn't launch with History +1.

Sky's part ownership of these channels and their track record of keeping HD versions exclusive to their platform isn't exactly encouraging.

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Yippeeeeeeeeeee.:hyper:

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Seriously History plus 1 hour is just the same old boring stuff, even older.