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Al Jazeera English HD is to expand from Freeview onto satellite.

Viceland starts on the 19th*

Any news as to whether these will come to VM? Thus far only Sky & Now TV have confirmed carriage deals.

* There has been speculation that Video and will replace H2.

Maybe this is why we got this in HD and not the parent channel?

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Seriously, does anyone really give a mod edit about those crappy channels?

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The website says it is coming soon to Sky and Now TV. Virgin Media isn't mentioned.

https://www.viceland.com/en_uk/

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Indeed l agree Andrew as if there was another price rise there would be a mutiny that would make the poll tax uprising seem like a tea party.;)

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IMHO the poll tax was the best method of collecting local tax ever!!!

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It didn't work as people deregistered to vote particularly in poorer parts of the country. As 80 per cent of council's funding comes from central government on a per-head basis, these areas lost a lot of funding.

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It does some good uk undercard boxing when Channel 5 has the main event :)

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We do not get to know why - but here an good point.

As of September 2nd Fox News Channel was testing it EPG out with no broadcasting video.

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In other news:

Over the past weekend we was told by Media Boy Sources that an new Worldbox Tier is testing called "Mix Pack Tier".

More info when we get it...

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That sounds more like subscription authorisation for the new TV pack.

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We have seen October 4th as an rumour launch date for Fox News Channel.

https://www.tvchannellists.com/Forth...K_%26_Ireland)

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Read something interesting...(for those who like F1)
Liberty Global are interested in buying the commercial rights "And it seems F1 itself may soon have a new owner, with US company Liberty Media in the final stages of a buyout that would see it take over from majority shareholder CVC Capital Partners.

from BBC website

Do you think VM could have it's own F1 channel coming soon? Or are they looking to rival Sky in other ways?

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That's not a Worldbox tier or a channel. Just the way that VM allocates the on demand content available to users on the new TV "Mix" package. Basically just an account check for on-demand content.

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As we have seen recently, channels testing in the background, with video streams, have fully launched on the EPG within a short time period.

Channels such as Fox News have only been added to the SI data. Think of these as being at an early planning stage, a placeholder has been reserved on an existing transport stream, which may or may not turn into a full channel at some point.

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J20x

So am I right in thinking if there is no video stream first there is no chance Fox News will just launch say overnight.

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AIUI that website is like Wiki where anybody can post anything.

Aye, another channel launches whilst VM are still playing catch up.

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It's unlikely but ultimately the channel will arrive at the date agreed in the contract. Channels that have held placeholders for a long period of time should allow for the video stream to be added, in a timely manner, prior to the official launch, as we saw with the NDTV channels.

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That always seems to be the way, VM launches a few extra channels and more pop up elsewhere. Their acquisitions team seems to be reactive rather than proactive.