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Wonder if Sky will include the price of a MUST HAVE BT landline Line Rental?
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I have been told that Virgin Media will be announcing its Second Quarter 2007 results on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 9am UK time,
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Virgin will drop its mobile TV service after less than a year, according to the Guardian.
BT and GCap are set to end their involvement with mobile phone operator's TV project after fewer than 10,000 mobile TV handsets were sold by the start of 2007. Despite a £2.5 million advertising campaign that featured Pamela Anderson, the five-channel service failed to entice viewers. Critics of the service blamed the lack of interest on the bulky handset that viewers needed to view the channels, and the absence of any bespoke programming. Marketing director at mobile TV group ROK Entertainment, Bruce Renny, said: "Why pay a subscription fee to receive the same TV content on your mobile that you already get at home? Particularly when people don't watch TV on mobiles for more than a few minutes at a time. "To be commercially successful, you have to provide a combination of live news, sports updates and video-on-demand, made-for-mobile content which is instantly engaging. Simply broadcasting linear TV to mobiles is not the answer." Info from the Guardian. |
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That was posted in January and it still has not happened yet. I don't doubt that it will happen, but for some reason VM are still messing around. You'd expect them to be able to get their own channels to their own customers pretty quickly, not 6 months later :rolleyes:
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-Have the same EPG Channel lineup on both lineups. [RE: UKTV Drama on Virgin Channel 129/147 ] -Have the same TV & Radio Channels on both lineups. ---------- Post added at 15:58 ---------- Previous post was at 15:49 ---------- The following channels may close on Ex-NTL epg Channel Name 143 More4 +1 153 Challenge +1 231 National Geographic +1 235 History Channel +1 345 Bliss 347 Scuzz 348 Flaunt 350 Classic FM TV 545 Motors TV 350 Zee Music 833 PCNE Chinese 863 BBC One Northern Ireland 864 BBC One Wales 921 Radio: The Arrow 926 Radio: Fun Radio 928 Radio: Magic Radio 929 Radio: Q Radio 931 Radio: BBC Radio Wales 932 Radio: BBC Radio Ulster 936 Radio: BBC Radio Cymru 962 Radio: The Hits Radio 963 Radio: Kiss 100 964 Radio: Kerrang! 966 Radio: Smash Hits! 967 Radio: Oneword May close on Ex-Telewest: epg Channel Name 209 UKTV Documentary +1 [ Testing on Ex-NTL Boxes ] 261 UKTV Food +1 [ Testing on Ex-NTL Boxes ] 830 Deutsche Welle 832 Leonardo 911 Radio: BBC Radio 4 LW 917 Radio: RTE Radio 1 920 Radio: WRN Europe 951 Radio: Virgin Radio Xtreme* 952 Radio: Virgin Radio Classic Rock* 953 Radio: Virgin Radio Groove* * = Virgin Radio are own by Scottish Media Group [ SMG ] not Virgin Media. Last update 28th of July. |
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I'd expect Challenge +1 to appear on ex TW and all the missing UKTV to appear on both networks.
I would also expect More 4+1 to appear along with the new Ch4+1 (they are under negotiation). As for the other channels, you may be right they may just disappear. We'll find out in due time. |
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Don't mind +1 channels going, but Classic FM TV and Motors TV are the two I watch the most. As for chopping everything Welsh, can't see the Assembly allowing that !!!!
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I hope that they don't get rid of Motors TV. It is a great channel
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It always makes me laugh, when we have all this talk, over the various companies out there and they give all these deals, to get the customers, that pays silly prices, l am not praising Sky or anything, l go for the company that gives the BEST deal, and l believe that if Sky knocked all there sub's down to say £10.00 per month FOR ALL the products, they could sustain that costs for a few years, as they have the big guns, compared to VM, BT Vision etc, as they could not keep up the pressure, we already have VM being sold off, to the highest bidders as they are so much in Debt, ( and Sir Richard listening to offers, now if that wasn't someone who has given up, l don't know what is ) and remind me, how long have they been going - less than a year, what the customer - that forum members - has to worry about is going in for a silly deal, and after the contract is up, the price goes up, and get hit in the pocket, I think that VM will get there fingers burned in the court battle, as the courts will probabely say, that Sky have got a product to sell, and they will go for the best price possible, but VM don't want to pay the price, thats business.:)
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Europe's largest cable operator Liberty Global is considering a bid for Virgin Media.
Liberty Global chairman and US mogul John Malone told the Financial Times that the group was 'doing [its] homework' with regards to entering the £12m auction for the US-listed British cable firm. Any deal would involve taking on around £6bn of debt. 'The UK market is big and complex and [Virgin Media] has a lot of interesting financial attributes to it,' Malone said. Virgin Media was up for sale earlier this summer after receiving a £5.5bn takeover bid from private-equity firm Carlyle Group. A $32-$33 per share proposal from Carlyle triggered a formal auction the company. Virgin has asked for indicative offers by August 8 with bids exepcted from a host of private equity firms and fellow cable companies. Virgin Media's Nasdaq-listed stock has fallen from above $29 ten days Info from Broadcast. For on this story see here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadc...StoryID=170327 |
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having experienced what the liberty service is like I would reconmmend vm staying well clear.
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[quote=TV Boy;34362364]Europe's largest cable operator Liberty Global is considering a bid for Virgin Media.
Liberty Global chairman and US mogul John Malone told the Financial Times that the group was 'doing [its] homework' with regards to entering the £12m auction for the US-listed British cable firm. Any deal would involve taking on around £6bn of debt. 'The UK market is big and complex and [Virgin Media] has a lot of interesting financial attributes to it,' Malone said. Virgin Media was up for sale earlier this summer after receiving a £5.5bn takeover bid from private-equity firm Carlyle Group. A $32-$33 per share proposal from Carlyle triggered a formal auction the company. Virgin has asked for indicative offers by August 8 with bids exepcted from a host of private equity firms and fellow cable companies. Virgin Media's Nasdaq-listed stock has fallen from above $29 ten days Info from Broadcast. For on this story see here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadc...StoryID=170327 /quote] Is this the same Liberty that provides the software fot the set top boxes ? |
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I think they are.
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