Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Same has happened for me as well, on 116 it explains the channel moveabouts but I don't know what that 165 is cause the actual 165 is Diva +1

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Well the reboot didn't fix anything it's now showing all programme information as loading.

There is another channel with no information on it's channel 145 in the middle of the E4/MORE4 section

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Hi, Liverpool is part of the Telewest network served by the Knowsley headend, Wirral & Manchester is part of the old Nynex/CWC/NTL network currently served by the Bromley headend.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

March:
16th. ITV2 is moving from channel 114 to channel 115.
16th. ITV3 is moving from channel 116 to channel 117.
16th. ITV4 is moving from channel 117 to channel 118.
16th. Channel 4+1 is moving from channel 142 to channel 143.
16th. E4 is moving from channel 143 to channel 144.
16th. E4+1 is moving from channel 144 to channel 146.
16th. More4 is moving from channel 145 to channel 147.
16th. Channel4 HD is moving from channel 146 to channel 142.

This is what MB said that was going to happen !

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Didn't MB say Diva+1 is going and 165 is where SyFyHD will be? - April 1st.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yes he did say that !

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Exact same thing happened to me. Rebooted at 3:17am in the morning (could tell as it chopped a tiny bit off my recording) checked for the channels and none there. etc etc. What was it and i thought it should be NGTV now :confused:

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anyone??

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks MB.

I'm waiting on a reply from the useless utv mob about this.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Quote:
[Originally Posted by The Yank]
As I'm already paying £100/mo - no chance me paying it. (never happen though)


How so much?[/QUOTE]
just the standard VIP pack charge plus a few calls to the states.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Why :confused::confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I would not get to excited on their answer, e mailed them and got this reply

Dear Matt,



Thank you for your recent email regarding the launch of ITV1 HD.



We are currently in negotiations with ITV in order to provide a UTV HD channel in Northern Ireland in the near future.



We appreciate when viewers take the time to contact us as your views are important and have been seen by UTV senior management.



Best wishes,



I asked would we have it for the world cup and got this helpful reply


Sorry Matt but I won’t be able to respond any further.

Best wishes,

Sarah

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Someone who posted on Wikipedia thinks Virgin Media will move Diva +1 from Channel 165 to Channel 166 before the end of this month.

But an Virgin insider has told me that Diva+1 is not being moved until Virgin drop this channel on April 1st.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

So no NGTV for me today, but strange that it rebooted due to the channel reshuffles and the updating message on on demand yesterday and the loss of NGTV_Switch channel off the EPG today. Spiderplant was correct...as usual :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Looks like they've corrected themselves

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginm...d-channels.php

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

It is odd that Film 4 is going in the M+ but E4 in XL, I can certainly understand putting HD in the XL pack to help recoup cost and tempt more subscribers to upgrade but this really shows some randomness on where channels end up.

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I doubt any work like that will get done on a Sunday night, it would be one heck of a overtime rate.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Virgin Media only update areas to NGTV on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

oh thank god lol So why did i get the NGTV message last night when we ant got it today??

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I think someone at Virgin sent the message to boxes in your area too early. (Maybe Virgin are working on your area Headend right now).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Me too, esp after paying for it, I was there last year in Houston, gotta watch from home this year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks for clearing that up Ben. Makes no difference to me as I'm on XL, but looks like my dad will miss out on E4. He'll be more interested in Film 4HD anyhow.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Since this morning both boxes have dropped 1 channel, V Box now on 300 and V+ now on 307

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

My total channels is now 331 (was 328 yesterday) but virgin has only added two new channels to my box - and Virgin has not remove any channels today.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I'll have a look on the provisioning screen in a bit to see what is not on EPG then

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Also found the two extra channels showing that the channel numbers will be moving.

They're named after the channel numbers though. Wouldn't it make more sense to be called Channel Moving Info

followed by in the EPG time slots
Info about new channel numbers

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Dear all Media Boy followers.

Due to the high numbers of posters on this Coming soon to Virgin TV 2010 thread I am thinking about starting an new one up on April 1st.

Let me know what you think....

Vote now @ http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...followers.html

Voting lines will closed in two weeks time (March 30th).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Voted..as it is 100% now..majority wins :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Have just had a look at the settings menu on my v box and number of channels is at 310 from 299 yesterday I can only find 3 new channels. Im in ex NTL area Bolton. Any clues as to what the other 8 channels are anyone?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

how come virgin have moved some of the channel line up

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

This is not an April Fools joke media boy ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Probably to make way for the new channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

what new channels and when

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The HD channels maybe?

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginm...d-channels.php

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

@MB Have you heard any info on whether or not VM will be picking up History HD? I'm hoping that now we are getting Military History VM will do a deal for the HD version?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

NGTV Update:

Channel count has now gone up by 1 again and NGTV_Switch has reappeared. Also, the message on more On Demand about improvements has returned for the Live Events. So maybe the NGTV Switch in my area is tonight now then.

Ben :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Hi does anyone know when the NGTV switch and new smart cards are due in Devon?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

no

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Sky have just announced Five HD: http://investors.sky.com/investors/p...10/Five_HD.htm

Hopefully VM will be in for this too...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Sounds of desperation on skys part, as FIVE, couldnt guarentee a date last week, i suspect Sky has put up the money for this channel, thus, probably be exclusive for a year or two

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Well done to sky for getting that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

There's no mention in the press release of it being "exclusive", and Sky normally bang on about that. It is though subscription-free - I can't see that £10 a month charge being justifiable when Virgin are offering a dozen HD channels now (and none of them HD showcases like Luxe) to XL customers.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

In all honesty, despite my moans about lack of HD, i see no real value in VM going all out to try and get 5HD... i mean really...who has watched ANYTHING on channel 5 in the past 2 days?

There are FAR more inmportant HD channels to get IMO!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Gadget show suzi perry! :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

LOL o.k my question was watched not perved on :p ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Do you mean you dont watch suzi soley for her technical ability to explain the gadgets? :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Erm. CSI Vegas last night

And Suzi Perry on monday Especially Detailing that Sub :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Would you be very offended is i said i didn't know who Suzi Perry was?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

yes extremely!

Back on topic im very happy so far with the announced HD Channels, would love Five HD and possibly a comedy central HD (but i never see that happening) bar sports and movies theres isnt alot left of the top of my head that id like in HD possibly would like Dave in HD

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Dave and Uk gold etc wouldn't have much in HD to broadcast its all very old shows

five HD has to launch........please launch it VM

Gadget show baby

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OMG yes I would:shocked::D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I agree five HD would be great, i watch all the three csi shows and others which are all made in HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

No news on History HD coming - yet.

But I know the following.

-Virgin are freeing up Channel 235 soon in all areas.
-I have been told that Virgin are set to confrim something very soon.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Gold wouldnt work but Dave would i think with its endless re-runs of top-gear (which are now in HD) plus the original content could be recorded in HD and scaled down for SD side of things.

but like i said most of the UKTV going HD would be a very slim chance

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yeah but you can ask the same question about a lot of the crappy channels virgin have added in hd over the past few weeks (E4HD, Film4HD, ScifiHD etc), there is always someone out there that wants to watch any given channel

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

yea the main point is VM are giving us the option.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

New Channels now testing (Info from Wikipedia.)

Wikipedia says Virgin Media are now testing the following channels.

Cartoonito
ITV1 HD
ITV2 +1
ITV3 +1
ITV4 +1
Military History

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Yeah fair play it's just if i was head of HD i would be looking more at sport, film and documentary which benifit the most from HD.... but meh! TomAto tomoaaaato.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

i think five hd would be good for europa league as we wont see it on itv hd unless they move it to itv 1

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

UPDATE:

One of my Virgin testers has told me that Virgin are not testing any of the channels that wikipedia has posted today.

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Note to all Ex-Telewest viewers using the Basildon Headend.

You will lose BBC Radio Kent in your area from Tomorrow.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I am a big fan of Home and Away, so I really hope that Virgin gets Five HD even though it is highly unlikely. I would be gutted if we don't get it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

So current standings Sky have 42 HD channels to VM 13 with what I feel is a Go Get List of 11 more taking VM to 24 HD channels.

This then leaves Sky's own HD channels which I can only presume will be part of the Ofcom ruling.
My understanding is that Sky HD channels are a option to VM but this would result in VM charging customer in the region of £20 per month - something that does not make sence when VM are trying to compete.

In that case if VM can offer all HD channels (excluding Skys HD channels) for no extra monthly subscripion then I think us VM customer are getting a good HD service - with the extra option to add Sky HD channels at a premiem.

HD Channels
Sky Movies Comedy- Sky Only
Sky Movies Family- Sky Only
Sky Movies Classics- Sky Only
Sky Movies Modern Greats- Sky Only
Sky Movies SD1- Sky Only
Sky Movies Action/Thriller- Sky Only
Sky Movies Sci-fi/Horror- Sky Only
Sky Movies Indie- Sky Only
Sky Movies Drama- Sky Only
Sky Movies SD2- Sky Only
Sky Box Office 1- Sky Only
Sky Box Office 2- Sky Only
MGM- Sky Only but VM go get List
Disney- Sky Only but VM go get List
Film 4- VM Only
Sky Sports 1- Sky Only
Sky Sports 2- Sky Only
Sky Sports 3- Sky Only
Sky Sports 4- Sky Only
ESPN- Sky & VM
EUROSPORT- Sky & VM
RUSH- Sky Only but VM go get List
Sky1- Sky Only
E4- Sky & VM
SciFi- Sky & VM
FX- Sky & VM
MTV- Sky & VM
History- Sky Only but VM go get List
Bio- Sky Only but VM go get List
Discovery- Sky & VM
CI- Sky Only but VM go get List
Nat Geo- Sky & VM
Nat Geo Wild- Sky Only but VM go get List
Sky Real Lives- Sky Only
Sky Arts 1- Sky Only
Sky Arts 2- Sky Only
Living- VM Only
Hallmark- Sky Only but VM go get List
Sky News- Sky Only
BBC- Sky & VM
ITV- Sky & VM
C4- Sky & VM
Five- Sky Only but VM go get List
Luxe- Sky Only but VM go get List

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It would be also intresting to see how sky reach the 50 HD channels mark by Xmas.

I do know that the below HD channels are in early statges

BBC News HD
ESPN Americia HD
Good Food HD
Since VM have delayed selling VMTV channels its suggested they could revert back to the old plan which was to HD Bravo, Challange and V1. - But i'm guessing these would go down the same route as Living HD - VM Only.

So thats a possiable 6 more but knowing Sky they seem to convert all Sky Channels to HD so guessing Sky2/3 will also get the HD treatment and maybe Sky Sports News.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Your "Sky Only but VM go get List" options include a number of channels that BskyB have partnerships in. It's only Nat Geo Wild, Rush, Luxe and Disney Cinemagic that BskyB have nothing to do with (and possibly Five, but that remains to be seen) the rest were launched in partnership with BskyB, so could have limitations on their availability to other platforms.

It's surely no coincidence that of all the channels announced not a single one of them has any involvement with BskyB.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

NGTV message has returned again 2 days later to Oldham... Will we get it updated tonight. Not holding my breath.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

@ TheDon

Yes agree but unless there owned by BskyB then they do not own the rights, exclusivity rights are for limited period of time, after this time then these can be offered to any service provider.

If the service provider takes up the option is another matter.

If BskyB have done the same with Five HD (Cash Injection) then you can bet it would well be over a year until VM customers get Five HD.

But Sky have not stated exclusive to Sky so it seems another deal must of being done.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Argh what is VM's obsession with rebooting my V+ around 3AM and nothing has changed, there is no point! The live events 'upgrading' message is probably a lie as well. Silly.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I agree - same here :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

The go get list could well be a possibility if virgin have said more to follow so could be any number of these.Have you any idea red with working for vm?.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

From reading WWW.VMHD.BLOGSPOT.COM Big Red does not work for VM he has friends that work there and that is where he gets the info from.

Anyway on another note :welcome: Big Red to the forum.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

media boy, sorry to bring this up, I have one minor problem with your grammar. (mine is not perfect at all but I thought I would bring this to your attention)

Your use of 'an' is nearly always wrong.

An is used before a word that starts with a vowel ie. an igloo, an apple an orange an exclusive etc etc.

A is used elsewhere ie. a HD channel a virgin customer a new channel..

Hope this helps and please dont take this personally its just a bit of advice to enhance my reading pleasure of your posts which I find very helpful!!

keep up the good work:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

:D Eeeh that post made an laiugh :D what a calamity some posters are glad im a full shilling am a full shilling is that or ham i rong :erm:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

@ Gadge

Sorry Gadge this is not the place to state if I work or if I know VM staff.
VM take early press releases/inside Intel serious so to protect myself and others its best not to say - Hope you know what I mean

All I can say is BBC News HD, ESPN America HD and Good Food HD are all coming at some point this year.

As stated and as per TheDon post some of the 11 go get could be part of a Sky exclusive - but depends when that exclusive right finishes - Sky do not own these channels.

I fully expect Nat Geo Wild, Rush, Luxe and Disney to be a easy get for VM. and no doubt be part of the VM 20-30 HD channel line up before end of year.

Plus with VM putting the sale of VMTV on the back burner rumours are they could revert to the original plan which resulted in 1)HD and 2)ReBranding to VM - 2) could be expensive and would only be part rebrand as Living has already gone through rebranding and I can not see that getting redone - although VM class Living as there equal to Sky1 (Not Virgin1)


Also Picture Box the £5 amonth extra for movies which is owned by Universal - talks are ongoing that Picture Box could be crapped with VM&Universal partnering there own Movie Channels to compete against Sky.

The £5 picture box is simply not worked as is costing VM more money that it receives.

Plus there are rumours and these are only rumours that with the TiVo boxes coming to the UK by end of the year TiVo and VM are looking into extending TiVo current Blockbuster deal to the UK or seeing what options they have with Love Film - If true this would replace the Film Flex option we have now or mean Film Flex would be come Box Office like pre DVD release.

All I can say I was with Sky for 10 plus years and for me to move from Sky with what they offer to VM must say what direction VM are going in.

And to add to the above watch out Sky Sports - ESPN are coming.
Fully expect ESPN to out bid Sky on more than one Prem league package when they next come up for bidding - ESPN are a huge Global force.

Remember Sky only get UK rights to Prem League with the Prem League selling Global rights direct - if we all think the current prem deal is crazy then I hate to think what the next deal will be.

And who pays for this? Yep us - does anyone recall Sky reducing the Sports package when Setanta/ESPN had 2 packages - not a chance.

The Future is Bright and the Future is VM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Just to be precise Big , i think it is actually 10 on your get go list not 11 so i make it a possible 23 hd channels VM are aiming for not 24.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Actually, whilst your post is mostly corrent, An is used before words that start with a vowel SOUND, not an actual vowel.

There's many cases of words that start with consonants where An is the appropriate word, such as "an hour", and words that start with vowels where A is the correct prefix, like "a united".

Like many words starting with H, HD is a special case which directly depends on the pronunciation of the letter H, many people will pronounce H with a h sound, as in heyatch, others with an a sound, as in aytch. In the latter An is correct.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

LOL guys. But imo we have not signed up for grammar lessons here on the cable forums. :D I do think maths is very important though. lol.

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No problem some good info in your post though.:)

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Sorry i think i buggered the post above up a bit , plesse dont lecture me i am new here.:D

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WTF is going on.:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

For the "corrected" 10 go get list, the below are the one's which could be difficult

Bio - AETN UK & BskyB (Launch Date SKY) 05/11/2008
C&I - AETN UK & BskyB (Launch Date SKY) 05/11/2008
History - AETN UK & BskyB (Launch Date SKY) 26/10/2006
MGM - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & BskyB (Launch Date SKY) 14/12/2009

Sky dont own these channels put partner to produce a HD platform and in some cases HD content.

MGM could be another year but from what I saw when I had Sky there was aload of rubbish - so not missing much.

With the other 3, they have being out in the open for some time and since there owned by the same broadcaster we could get all 3 or could fall under this Ofcom ruling VM are waiting to hear.

So lets say 6 out of the 10 are surley 100% coming soon HD channels

---------- Post added at 18:26 ---------- Previous post was at 18:18 ----------

Before anyone asks - AETN UK = Arts & Entertainment Television Networks
The company is jointly owned by Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television Group, and NBC Universal

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Thanks for info.

:welcome: to the mad house.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Forgot to add Animal Planet HD - Discovery Networks could add others also in coming year (DMAX rings bells but can not find anything backing that up)

Animal Planet
Animal Planet +1
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel +1
Discovery HD
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Home & Health +1
Discovery Knowledge
Discovery Knowledge +1
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time +1
Discovery Science
Discovery Science +1
Discovery Shed
Discovery Travel & Living
Discovery Turbo
DMAX
DMAX +1
DMAX +2
Investigation Discovery
QUEST
QUEST +1

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

im sorry to say but there is more to sports than football and to be honest football is all that ESPN is bothered about.
there is a serious lack of motorsports on ESPN and they missed out on both NASCAR (live and highlights) and Indycar (highlights), whats even worse is they missed out on NASCAR to a public broadcast channel.
sure ESPN get DTM but its only due to the fact it is a left over off the Setanta deal. i think its pretty poor that ESPN have big presence in US and they cant even get the bigger Motor racing series from the US on air here in UK.

there is too much focus on football on ESPN that is not relevent here in the UK and there is fans of sports that they are already showing in the US but dont show here in the UK.

you say whch out Sky Sports - ESPN are coming !!

i say Sky Sports have nothing to worry about as all the stuff shown on ESPN is very minority orientated apart from the football and SKY have a wide range of sports that i will watch.
even eurosport has WTCC, SKB, Moto GP, F3 series that are all coming in HD soon.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I am afraid the words are true regarding espn coming for sky sports have you seen the size of espn they make sky look like amateurs money wise plus they also have much deeper pockets.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

No like big red said i feel they are getting there grounding. I fully expect them to be serious bidders come the next round of TV deals. They are not fly by night people. I think sentanta going under forced there hand a little. So now they have got into the market cheaper than they first thought.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Men and Motors update.

ITV told a Sky Viewer that M&M close at 6am on April 1st on Sky. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...&postcount=214

But Virgin are set to drop M&M next Thursday (March 25th) so we may get an extra week.

More info as I get it...

(I have sent an email to ITV).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

they may have deep pockets but they proved they are too scared to dip into them with NASCAR i mean they lost out to a public access channel FFS !!!

it just seems that everytime i put ESPN/HD on there is nothing but football on and to be honest football does not float my boat.
i really thought the we would get some of the US motor racing series here in UK that they alrready have contracts to show in US but we get nothing other than DTM that is a leftover from Setanta.

even Eurosport shows more US motorsport than ESPN as they show the US 24 hours series !!!

like i said they already failed with NASCAR which is the most popular US racing series public access and that is really bad for a broadcast company with so called "deep pockets".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Sky have the rights to Nascar in the US and did so before ESPN joined the UK market - So they were unable to offer this to us UK fans.

ESPN own the NASCAR rights in US and also plan to release NASCAR via HD. - if you watch NASCAR on Sky sports you will see that its covered by ESPN
and in some cases FOX and sometimes by ABC which comes under the same ownership as ESPN.

Remember this is ESPN first year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Sky dont own the rights to NASCAR here in the UK the deal ran uot with the daytona 500 this year. some little nobody picked up the UK rights to air on public access because ESPN were either too slow or not willing to pay for it.

as for Indycar sure Sky have the deal for that but Five had the highlight rights packaget oboth NASCAR and Indycar but it ran out last year and so far nobody has picked up either. if ESPN were the company you say then they would snap up a highlight package for both but they clearly are only bothered about football here in the UK.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

ESPN UK Coverage
Football
Prem League
Scotish Prem League
Europa League
Serie A
German League
Portuguese League
Russian and Dutch leagues
Other
UFC - A MUST SEE
NBA
NHL
NCAA
Top 14 Rugby
AFL

Also from this Summer - The FA Cup. Women’s Super League and England Under 21, Guinness Premiership

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

like a said well over half is football !!!!!

with the stuff mentined at the bottom its over 65% football

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

Open Access 3 have NASCAR rights in the UK - Sky only.

Thats shows you how much Nascar was watched.

There is not much motor sports that gets people jumping up and down to watch it.

Indy Car - I give you that one, I think its one if not the best motor sports on 4 wheels at the moment.
F1 would rather watch paint dry - its the new Nascar
Nascar - after time its gets boring and very late nights early mornings.
WTCC - I'm sure this was on Grandstand, then ITV1, moved to ITV4 does it sit on motorsports channel now?
Moto GP - agree its good.

So Indy Car and Moto GP are must have sports but all have long term deals with current broadcasters.

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Remeber ESPN have not being in the UK for a year yet and already they have a good size lineup.

You can say Golf(Rights bought up by Sky since Setanta crash), Motor Sports, Cricket (Mainly Sky and ITV4 viewing of the Prem League "that says it all") are all missing from there lineup.

They only have one UK channel with ESPN Americia manily for US sports and Classic

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

WTCC - Eurosport/Eurosport HD
SBK (superbikes) - Eurosport/Eurosport HD (better than Moto GP)
Moto GP - Eurosport/Eurosport HD
F1 - BBC
F3 series - Eurosport/Eurosport HD
GP2 series - Eurosport
indycar - Sky Sports
NASCAR (awesome IMO) open access (public broadcast)
A1 GP Sky Sports ???

all the above are awesome motorsport series and more like BTCC, World series by Renault, GT racing series, WRC, IRC etc that dont get aired and are pretty entertaining. they would be easy for ESPN to get deals and broadcast but they dont seem interested in nothing but football. look at the list you posted over half of it is dedicated to football and the rest is split between lost of minority sports (i do like NHL though).
its a shame that ESPN are not going for these as motorsport looks awesome in HD.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

I would be pleased if they could get more english football

Goooooaaaaalllllllllllllllllll

Practising :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

blue square premier stillup for grabs. wonder if anyone will pick up the play-off final at wembley.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
 

But is there a market

A1 GP - was setup to rival F1 which Sky but alot of money into.
NASCAR - Just tells you if Sky dont extend deal then was the viewing at the time of the day worth it. - so why would ESPN pick up left overs.

F1 - Will never go to a pay tv station it will always remain on a free to air broadcaster - There is a rule about this - I will try and dig it out but it goes for other sports a % of them have to be shown on free to air channels.

Yes agree its footbal football football - but the rights to those football leagues are cheap and its what most people watch - Serie A football has alot of UK followers and the fact the rights to these were up due to the Setanta Crash.

You got to look at there point of view what are current ratings, NASCAR must of beimng either asking for too much money or the viewing were that bad that all have rejected hence why its on Open Access.

Remember ESPN started June last year so not even a year yet and not even started.

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Everything you just listed is already shown on other channels. ESPN can't buy rights for a sporting event which has already been sold to another broadcaster. They can only get the rights when the current contract runs out.

A lot of people seem to think they can pay to show whatever they want. This isn't the case. If they could, ESPN would easily have snapped up everything you listed and more sports besides, but as it is, they have to wait.

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World series by Renault, GT series, WRC, IRC, Le Mans 24 hours (enduro series). all these are not getting live coverage. sure we get some highlights coverage but there is nothing live shown. NASCAR was up for grabs and ESPN let it slip away.

even DTM on ESPN was not shown live last year for most races because of football even though they have the contract to show both qualifying and race live. it just seems a missed oppertunity for someone like me who is not into football and prefers motorsports i mean even Sky Sports knows that Football is not the only sport out there and offers a greater choice of alternative sports to god damn football.

to be honest im suprised that ESPN have not snapped up feeder series like WSBR, Indy lights Formula BMW, Formula Palma Audi, ARCA etc as these are great series to watch and the licences will be for almost nothing.

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I wish someone would - the Thursday night matches were in some cases good games of footie

Hope a deal is sorted for next season

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A1GP is dead. Le Mans 24 hour will be on Eurosport again this year in June.

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So how are we doing at this staying on topic idea?

New thread idea- My preference in televised sport and how that really affects the games SKY and ESPN will play next time rights come up for renewal :angel:

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I don't think home and away or neighbours are made in HD anymore, i think it was too time consuming for them as it takes longer to edit and they have to make 4 eps a week on average.

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But why would ESPN buy up rights and then use Live time up for something thats not bringing the audances in.

Every one of Sky's sports deals is multi million and in one case billions and on long term deals, most dont run out until 2014 and were extended last year.

World series by Renault, GT series, WRC, IRC, Le Mans 24 hours - the rating are that poor its only worth highlight rights.

DTM - whats the betting it gets dropped after the deal runs out - if the air time is better used by something that people will watch then they are going to do that.

In my eyes is just shows how poor NASCAR was for Sky to drop - Your saying ESPN missed the oppertunity to get it - why would ESPN buy something thats no getting the audances even on Sky.

ESPN are competing against Sky Sports and have just started, they bought into a inherted Prem League deal which see's them loose a package but ESPN are a huge global force and will sign multi million pound deals if it gets the audances.

It just shows with the likes of the indina cricket league not even ITV think its worth showing on prime time ITV1 instead its on ITV4.
NASCAR on Open Access3 - not open access 1/2 but 3.

ESPN and Sky are competing for Premium sports - Football is part of that if you like it or not.

Your comparing Sky's choice v ESPN - some facts Sky have being around in the UK since 1989 - ESPN -Aug 2009 7 months compared to 20+ years.

Sky have 5 UK sports channels compared to ESPN 1 or 3 if you want to include ESPN America and Classic.

Will ESPN choice get better and bigger - Yes
Will ESPN be able to equal its self to Sky - Yes but time will tell 2014 is a HUGE date in ESPN diary - most of the multi million/billion pound deals that Sky have will expire within this year.

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oops sorry yeah agree back to Virgin

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HD shouldn't take any longer to edit than SD. The only different is the amount of detail you see but that's off topic for this thread as Five HD isn't (yet) coming to Virgin!

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the thing is just cause your opinion is that most motorsports are not worth watching there is a big following of people that think it is. i hate football and think that all the air time it gets is a waste.

have you ever been to a race ???
i have and i know that crowds are bigger on avarage than what most football matches get (WRBR at sliverstone last year was over 150,000 to that one event alone).

the problem is that ESPN is hung up on football there is far too much of it aired and it ****es me off.

DTM is the biggest touring car series in europe and hope that it ESPN dont drop it but if they do Eurosport will pick it up and then again its ESPN`s loss and hopefully either way ill get to see it in HD.

yes i know the Le Mans 24 hours is on Eurosport but only the one race (or 2 if they get the Spa 24 hours as well) there is 9 races in total to the series and 8 of which will not be aired its another wasted oppertunity especially as Nigel Mansell is driving in the full series with his own team. what more do you need to pull an audience than probably the most well known of British drivers ever to race.

the problem is ESPN wont give motorsports a try as it seems they are too worried in loosing the die hard football fan.