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While this is true, but it's also a double edged sword as it wastes capacity that could otherwise be used for more "attention grabbing" and "subscriber attracting" channels, it also gives the illusion that there's more (quality) channels.

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Nickalive: PAW Patrol to Take Over Nick Jr. Too UK

The PAW Patrol is on a roll, and this September, will be leaping onto Nick Jr. Too for Nick Jr. UK & Ireland's first-ever PAW Patrol pop-up channel!

https://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/...jr-too-uk.html

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Article written by my good friend NickALive, makes a change from Peppa Pig. Paw Patrol is very popular though, so such a decision to turn Nick Jr. Too into a Paw Patrol Pop-Up channel is understandable.

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We have just found that Good Food has been removed from Virgin Media On Demand, UKTV Play and Catch Up.

Digital Spy Forum for Sky is also reporting "All Catch Up and Box Sets from Good Food are now set to expire on the 12th September, indicating that it will no longer be available on demand from that date."

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https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ead-week-32/p8

See #191

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I think that the only channel that VM now doesn't have that would be attention & subscriber grabbing would be Sky Atlantic. Even AMC & MTV Classics are pretty niche channels.

A shortage of capacity preventing the launch of new channels is no longer an issue. Despite the total capacity being reduced, VM are taking steps to make more efficient use of the capacity that they have left e.g. changing over to MPEG4, closing duplicate SD channels, squeezing more channels into each transponder etc.

I take your point about the shopping channels being used to beef up the total amount of channels available.

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Glad you've now accepted there's plenty of capacity on the network, Richard!

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Good food and food network merging into one?

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Discovery are certainly demoting Good Food if not, they shunted it right to the end of the main entertainment section of the Sky EPG recently and bumped around 5 channels up one slot in turn to the vacated slot in front of it.

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Do Virgin Media and Discovery need an new deal for Home, Really and Good Food to stay on Virgin?

We think the following may happen to the Ex-UKTV Channels: (">" Means becomes)

Home > HGTV (Confirmed - launch date unknown.)

Really and Quest Red > Really
Good Food and Food Good > Food Network

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Don't think so no i think the current deal would still be binding, they could negotiate a better/new deal though if they wish.

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AMC is only available to a relatively small percentage of viewers but I would hardly describe it as a niche channel. Have you looked at their schedules? Tomorrow, for example, they are screening Mad Men, Law and Order, The Road (2009 thriller), Push (2006 thriller), NOS4A2 (new series), Hap and Leonard, Jungle (2017 adventure film) and Zoom In.

I wouldn't describe any of that programming as designed for a niche audience, Richard.

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Like Sky Atlantic l cannot see AMC coming to Virgin.

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Well, their content will all be on streamers before long, Den, so I shan't lose any sleep over it.

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Villarreal v Real Madrid - Sunday 19:45

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Don't start all that again.

A new (Government funded?) FTA channel to teach immigrants English is to start:

If it does turn out to be Government funded, i'm assuming that it will be made available across all platforms.

It will show programmes such as Only Fools & Horses, Midsommer Murders and Fawlty Towers and aim to 'help the 844,000 people – 1.6% of the population – living in the UK who speak little or no English. At around £2million a year, it would prove a “cost-effective” way of teaching people who can’t afford lessons or access daytime classes'.

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Fair enough, I still can't understand why it's still only on BT TV though. I don't think that AMC would usually be a deciding factor when choosing pay TV providers and would have thought that AMC wouldn't be happy at their shows receiving such limited exposure.

Perhaps they're just happy to take the money for exclusivity and can then resell their content to other channels for their customers who won't have seen it.

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Has the Smithsonian Channel gone down for anyone else?