Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

Do you mean like TLC, where it is the same channel, but now with different owners?

Have the new owners changed the output of the channel significantly, like TLC?

ocav	10-06-2013 20:16

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35582362)

Do you mean like TLC, where it is the same channel, but now with different owners?

Have the new owners changed the output of the channel significantly, like TLC?

TLC has always been owned by Discovery?

DJ-SWITCH

10-06-2013 20:44

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35582158)

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The one in Blue I think may launch sometime by Friday (Starting on Tuesday).

what about mtv music its not been listed

Horizon

10-06-2013 20:48

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35582392)

TLC has always been owned by Discovery?

Indeed it has, but perhaps he was referring to Discovery which up until 5 years ago was owned and controlled by the person who is now the ultimate boss of Virgin Media aka the billionaire John Malone.

As for the Travel Channel it was owned by Discovery between 1997 to 2007 when it was sold to US cableco Cox. In 2010 Cox sold Travel to its current owner Scripps who now also own half of UKTV.

OLD BOY

10-06-2013 20:50

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Originally Posted by DaMac (Post 35581724)

So why do we think we are suddenly going to get these channels? Can Liberty Global just come in and rip up existing carriage agreements and sign new ones in their place?

There are very few operators who would refuse to allow you add-ons to an existing contract! If you have an 18 month contract with Virgin Media, they will not prevent you from adding Sky Movies!

Incidentally, good to see we are getting the Travel Channel. I used to enjoy watching that and was really annoyed when they took it off cable.

Only Sky Atlantic to go and I will be quite happy with the channels myself.

All I will then want is the access to the six lanes of programmes Mr Fries was talking about!

jj20x

10-06-2013 21:09

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Coming soon... additional BBC Red Button streams on 992 and 993.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...-Button-summer

denphone

10-06-2013 21:23

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Excellent news.

paultrademark

10-06-2013 23:55

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Looking forward to recording a lot of the Glastonbury coverage :)

johnasimmons

11-06-2013 11:33

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35582158)

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The one in Blue I think may launch sometime by Friday (Starting on Tuesday).

Comedy Central Extra +1
MTV CLASSIC
MTV LIVE
MTV +1
Nick Jr. +1
Food Network (Virgin Channel 287)
Travel Channel (Virgin Channel 288)

None of the above happened today; maybe later in the week?

trickytree

11-06-2013 11:37

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Perfect timing for Glastonbury and Wimbledon as they have stated.
Hopefully this can be a turning point for the red button on Virgin/Tivo

Asian Channel

11-06-2013 13:43

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why does virgin media always (when they do) launch new channels on Tuesday or Thursday

Aguero9320

11-06-2013 14:30

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