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Teletext to shut down in 2010.

Teletext will cease all transmissions - analogue and digital - of its main text services including those on ITV, Channel 4 and Five in January 2010.

http://tellychannelsnews.blogspot.co...t-down-in.html

Ben B

16-07-2009 15:15

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34834854)

:erm: Wow that's a bit strange that they would also pull digital text. Are they also going to pull teletext extra which has been downloaded to some freeview boxes?

Media Boy UK

16-07-2009 16:57

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Setanta Sports UK fall out: Scotland game to be shown on BBC Two on August 12th.

Football web site ''Live football on TV'' say BBC has win the rights to show Norway VS Scotland on August 12th.

Sky and ESPN was rumoured to be biding for the rights as well.

percie123

16-07-2009 17:03

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Any news from virgin yet on whether they have reached an agreement with espn yet, still in the dark as per usual

Media Boy UK

16-07-2009 17:06

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

I have no news on ESPN but Virgin's web site has given them an EPG Channel.

I think the hold up is over costs for ''us'' viewers.

Nook29

16-07-2009 17:06

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by percie123 (Post 34834943)

Any news from virgin yet on whether they have reached an agreement with espn yet, still in the dark as per usual

No more information yet, shouldn't long now (in theory).

royaltiger

16-07-2009 17:21

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34834854)

Thats good news for virgin as they're still figuring out how it installs on cable, so one less headache for them after 10 years or so of no teletext.

Mobes

16-07-2009 17:31

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by royaltiger (Post 34834954)

Thats good news for virgin as they're still figuring out how it installs on cable, so one less headache for them after 10 years or so of no teletext.

Dont really get why they can't do that...same as ex NTL Multi News Screen... they just kick out the old phrase of "Not enough Bandwidth" crap excuse...

Media Boy UK

16-07-2009 18:18

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Is Virgin Media set to broadcast this years Edinburgh Festival?

I have been told today that the Edinburgh Festival is testing offline right now in an Ex-Telewest area in Scotland and Virgin has even given it an EPG Channel number.

The EPG Channel is 450.

TomChiverton

16-07-2009 20:55

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by frogstamper (Post 34834210)

That makes sense Stephen, I suppose the amount of people who'll now upgrade to XL-TV will cover the cost of any new channels.

Not me. No Sky HD, no SciFi HD. As far as I can tell no plans either :-(

Nook29

16-07-2009 21:06

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by TomChiverton (Post 34835120)

Not me. No Sky HD, no SciFi HD. As far as I can tell no plans either :-(

They were never going to get Sky HD. It amazes me how many people seemed to think they would/will any time soon.

Media Boy UK

16-07-2009 21:53

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34834847)

not from what irea a whiel ago, sky agreed to pay the higher amount if they got all the old firm matches

I have just found this on Sky Sports.com

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Barney Francis, Managing Director of Sky Sports, said: "This new deal gives Sky Sports viewers 30 live matches a year, including each of the Old Firm games, all in HD.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...436945,00.html

Andrewcrawford23

16-07-2009 22:52

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34835159)

I have just found this on Sky Sports.com

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...436945,00.html

So does that mean all 4 old firm games on sky sports or 2?

TomChiverton

16-07-2009 23:14

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Nook29 (Post 34835126)

They were never going to get Sky HD. It amazes me how many people seemed to think they would/will any time soon.

Why do you say that ?

KenK	16-07-2009 23:17

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34835236)

So does that mean all 4 old firm games on sky sports or 2?

... or 3. That'll be Sky Sports' choice at the time of each match. I don't think their Extra or Interactive (not available on VM) feeds do HD yet, but they could change that.

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