Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Media Boy Sources has now given us new info on what Viacom offer to Virgin Media:
-Viacom did offer new channels with Nick Jr HD being known.
-Base on information we seen Viacom maybe about to AXE MTV Cassic or becoming an demand service (MTV Play) only.

Raider999

09-10-2019 17:18

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36013300)

You are not missing anything good.

You are only missing the following:

Monday to Friday.

06.00 As ITV
13.55 STV News (Scottish News Headlines)
14.00 As ITV
18.00 STV News (Local Scottish news from 4 areas Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.)
19.00 As ITV
22.30 Scotland Tonight (Something like Newsnight)
23.00 Old ITV Broadcasts from the last few years.

Weekends:

STV Weekend News is shown on STV when ITV broadcast their local news.

All other shows as ITV.

You occasionally get sports live on Scottish/Welsh/Irish channels which are not available in other areas via Virgin.

These can be viewed via Sky - good enough reason to want it IMO.

cheekyangus

09-10-2019 17:37

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 36013383)

You occasionally get sports live on Scottish/Welsh/Irish channels which are not available in other areas via Virgin.

These can be viewed via Sky - good enough reason to want it IMO.

I get the impression the BBC are better with regional sport than Channel 3 licensees these days. Nothing I see listed on STV sports-wise looks like it wouldn't be on in other Ch3 regions, whereas I know Wales/Scotland/N.Ireland (not so sure about English regions) do get a fair bit of regional sport (e.g. rugby and golf recently off top of my head). The BBC stuff is on iPlayer usually, which helps as you only tend to find out about them, if they are not your region, afterwards.

Aguero9320

09-10-2019 20:10

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Does this show Discovery’s huge plans?

https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/10/dpla...e-questod.html

Media Boy UK

10-10-2019 12:31

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

BREAKING NEWS.... BREAKING NEWS.... BREAKING NEWS....

Media Boy Sources has today confirm that Viacom DID offer all the following channels on top of Nick Jr. HD and MTV Classic as part of the new deal with more on Demand things to Virgin Media.

-Nick Jr. +1
-Comedy Central Extra +1
-5Spike +1
-MTV MUSIC +1
-MTV +1

©copyright 2019 Media Boy 2006 - 2019. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

cheekyangus

10-10-2019 13:02

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

I assume by saying they were offered that your source MB has confirmed they aren't coming? That there isn't a delay between doing the deal and executing it, e.g. it took a few months for Sky reorganisation to happen after the deal being agreed.

If so, I can understand why VM deprioritised the +1s, the on-demand content they're getting in the deal should be the same as the that, and doesn't clutter up the EPG.

Media Boy UK

10-10-2019 13:08

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36013486)

It takes time.

Sky Deal was confirm on July 18th.
Sky Cinema SD was axe on August 1st.
E! HD did launch on August 15th.

Source: Media Boy Blog.

cheekyangus

10-10-2019 13:16

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36013488)

It takes time.

Sky Deal was confirm on July 18th.
Sky Cinema SD was axe on August 1st.
E! HD did launch on August 15th.

Source: Media Boy Blog.

Thanks for reminding me of the inbetween dates, I only meant the reshuffle on Oct 1st when I was typing that. I'd forgotten the others.

Aguero9320

10-10-2019 14:45

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36013485)

Do you know whether Virgin accepted or rejected the chance to get the extra channels, MB? Or was it simply 'offered' to Virgin.

Ultimate.Conj

10-10-2019 14:48

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 36013499)

Do you know whether Virgin accepted or rejected the chance to get the extra channels, MB? Or was it simply 'offered' to Virgin.

Seems strange why they wouldn't take Nick Jr HD if they are stripping back their SD channels. Unless price was a factor of course

Media Boy UK

10-10-2019 14:50

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 36013499)

Do you know whether Virgin accepted or rejected the chance to get the extra channels, MB? Or was it simply 'offered' to Virgin.

At time of post we only know what Viacom offered.

If no +1 channels appeared by November 10th they are unlikely to appear..

We think is safe to say Nick Jr. HD will launch soon.

We mean it took over FOUR Weeks for E! HD to launch after the new Sky deal was confirm in July.

We have no idea on when the Discovery deal was signed.

All times are GMT +1. The time now is 16:37.

Page 135 of 163

135

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page