Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)

Is it just me or does Comedy Central seem to be dying a slow, painful death? It seems to me that it airs repeats of Friends ten hours a day, 7 days a week.

With 4 million viewers a week, it's doing something right.

denphone

19-06-2015 08:37

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That's more then l ever imagined as personally l have never been a lover of most of the programmes on there.:shocked:

Ultimate.Conj

19-06-2015 09:17

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Coming home from work every evening to find Friends on the tele does drive me mad hahaha, but I do like Impractical Jokers and The Middle...they are funny.

muppetman11

19-06-2015 09:26

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35783859)

With 4 million viewers a week, it's doing something right.

And yet people on here claim Sky Atlantic is a disaster despite having in excess of this figure and only being available on Sky/Now TV.:D

undertakereddie

19-06-2015 10:08

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I Also like watching The Middle and Mike & Molly on Comedy Central. I also watch reruns of Friends and King of Queens you can watch those over and over again and they still make you laugh. Same with The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother on E4.

denphone

19-06-2015 10:18

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35783873)

And yet people on here claim Sky Atlantic is a disaster despite having in excess of this figure and only being available on Sky/Now TV.:D

l for one never claimed Sky Atlantic was a disaster as my gripe is it should be available to all and l still stand by those comments.:)

Ultimate.Conj

19-06-2015 10:31

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Sky Atlantic probably gets around 5m viewers a week, I think Sky Living gets more than this. If Atlantic was to be offered to more providers, those viewing figures would go up and they could command more advertising revenue.

Maybe they have weighed up the advertising revenue against forecast subscriptions losses if VM/BT/Talk Talk did have Atlantic....I dunno :-)

But again it has been said that Sky was willing to let Atlantic on other providers, it was just the amount they asked for it...again I dunno :-)

Which means my post is rather usless hahaha, sorry guys!

OLD BOY

19-06-2015 10:45

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35783709)

Of course it's exclusive to VM in the UK.

http://www.virgin.com/news/virgin-me...on-tv-platform

Thank you for clarifying, MM.

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Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35783727)

The live channel is not available in the uk on any platform except for VM, the app on both firetv and samsungtv offer replays of shows, reviews and mostly old stuff for example the last of us review was running last night on the samsung app whilst the live channel was talking about E3, i get the live channel via other means i can't discuss here ;)
Ginxtv are trying to launch on other platforms according to them on twitch they keep asking for people to contact sky and ask for ginxtv.

As far as Ginx is concerned, this is what I was talking about. VM happen to be the only provider taking up the channel, so I suppose you could call that 'exclusive'. But there is a difference surely between being the only provider and actually signing up to prevent other platforms from taking it.

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Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35783739)

The one and MM have got in before me on Ginx and TiVo (try buying a new TiVo box on its own over here) but your views don't really change OB. You change your arguments to try and get round other people's opinions, but your overall views simply do not change. There is no harm in people being gracious and admitting they were wrong with their views, and it is indeed a good virtue to eat humble pie, but I have yet to see you do it.

Sometimes, we all change our arguments as we assimilate new facts. What's wrong with that?

And in case you've forgotten, I've admitted that I was wrong about Sky Atlantic, so I'm sorry about that.

I wouldn't go as far as eating my pants, though... :D

RichardCoulter

20-06-2015 17:27

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Originally Posted by Bananaman_007 (Post 35783794)

Yes i noticed the message on the channel has changed from... this channel is no longer broadcasting to ... This channel is off air.

As for Ginx they were very close to launching on Sky twice, once with their own channel and once with a timeshare channel. Not sure what happened but both options have to date not launched.

I have also noticed that Sky are broadcasting box sets of shows that do not have UK homes too. This is a crafty way for Sky to supply shows to its customers and nobody else.

The slate hasn't changed, it has always said "off air" since the channel was removed. Yep, Ginx could launch on Sky if they could/wanted to.

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Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35783602)

I wouldn't hold your breath.

Whether it's Spike, Atlantic, BT Europe or something else we'll find out eventually.

Turns out you were right, ignorance at it's best. Yep, you will eventually find out when the channel appears.

Stephen

20-06-2015 19:04

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Ok folks, we all like a bit of banter but keep it clean and friendly please!

Media Boy UK

22-06-2015 11:22

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Media Boy HQ Monday round up.

We got word back from an Virgin Source last on Friday night.

We did ask if any new channels are set to launch but we was only told:

"Can't say much about new channels cause there doesn't seem to be a great deal."

But they also given us an DNP order to be reveal by July 2016. We have been reading it all weekend to see if we are not seeing things.

VO--- tests updates.

Here is the latest we have on V0-- Channels testing we do not know when the next update will be:

-Friday: 2 V0-- channels testing, 1 of them carry audio dd the other one AUDIO UNDEFINED (My source thinks it an app for TiVo).
-Saturday: 5 V0-- channels testing, only 1 carry audio dd.
-Sunday: 3 V0-- channels testing, none carry audio.
-Monday: 4 V0-- channels testing, 1 carry AUDIO UNDEFINED (My source thinks it an app for TiVo), rest of the channels nothing.

OLD BOY

22-06-2015 11:29

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35784390)

The number of channels testing and what those channels are does not seem to have any bearing on what we actually get. Am I right in saying this?

In which case, is there any point in reporting on them?

Anypermitedroute

22-06-2015 11:31

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35784390)

Thanks MB, with Wimbledon & Glastonbury starting immiently, I would speculate these are red button coverage, probably quite a few not seen on this scale since the olympics (and we had less channels and HD in those days)

Media Boy UK

22-06-2015 11:36

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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute (Post 35784392)

Virgin Media are also testing the following channels under real names:

-Arabic Hafla (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button 2* (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button 3* (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button 4* (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button 5* (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button 6* (No set launch date).
-BBC Red Button HD** (No set launch date).

*Channels will launch on channel 992 to 996.
**Channel will launch on Channel 990.

Anypermitedroute

22-06-2015 11:44

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35784394)

thanks for confiming this, so those are in addition; thats my theory out of the window

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