Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Correct, all you would see is 'This channel is not available'

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Just noticed on ESPN America Website

ESPN America is available on Virgin Media channel 533 but differs depending on what Virgin TV package you subscribe to.

M & L pack subscribers: ESPN America costs an additional £10
XL Pack subscribers: ESPN America is free as part of your package

That was changed in the last day it was not there yesterday I'm sure of it

http://www.espnamerica.com/portal/sy...t/howtoget::uk

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I have XL tv and it's not available on mine. Shows the channel but it's greyed out.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It says it starts on 3rd August

andrewlutonuk

I have Virgin Media XL TV

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

so according to this anyone one XL TV with VM should be getting ESPN america

http://www.espnamerica.com/portal/sy...t/howtoget::uk

so how come i cant get it as its greyed out even though im on XL TV ??? do i need to ring VM and tell them to put it on or will it appear in thenext few days ???

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Nobody knows yet, VM haven't said anything regarding this yet. I imagine that the contract VM have agreed with ESPN hasn't begun yet.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

After the Setanta demise VM issued this statement

"
If you have size M or L TV and would like to continue to get ESPN America you just need to give us a call on 150 - free from any Virgin Media phone - or on 0845 454 1111 from any other phone, and we can add it to your TV pack for £10 per month. If you have XL TV and subscribed to it previously, you don't need to do anything, the channel will still be available to you."

This situation will change no doubt once the new ESPN channel and VM come to an agreement.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I just called VM customer services about ESPN America and they say that it is a mistake on the ESPN website so I called VM retentions department where a really friendly guy checked the ESPN website and he then contacted various departments within VM to find out (I was on hold for 20 mins), when he came back he said that he could not find out any information on it and had emailed a department to find out and told me best to call back on Monday/Tuesday to see what the situation is.

Hopefully we on XL will get it free as a replacement for Setanta but from reading other posts on here even if we do get it probably won't be for long as ESPN is supposed to be taking over the channel number to broadcast UK sport.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

ESPN may have jumped the gun with regards to ESPN america

http://www.espnamerica.com/portal/sy...t/howtoget::uk

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It said this on the 10th July http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Just been looking at twitter and a person has posted this about a new advert for vm tv , it is on the same line as the other new ones and its saying powerful stuff . So this may be the new advertising for the new line up that vm are getting the link is :

http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewNews/?97485

so it may be happening :confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Looks like the twitter people have replied to your post:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

After a very long discussion with a person on the phone and talking to the ops team at virgin, it seems very confused. All links to espn america have now gone off the virgin additional channels section of the website. ESPN are advertising it as free to xl customers. The ops team are now saying it is no longer possible for anyone on M or L to subscribe to ESPN America at all. It seems to point to free on XL to me or pricing is about to be revealed.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I imagine we'll have an announcement early next week. I'm sure that the deal has been sorted out, it's just a case of VM updating everything so that it can be carried from day one.