Cable Forum - Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.

I remember Premier Sports officially announced they secured the UK broadcast rights to ESPN Friday Fight Night earlier this year. About 2 weeks later it was confirmed the deal was off. Why was the deal off? Well apparently Premier Sports went directly to ESPN in America and secured the rights to shows Friday Fight Night exclusively live in the UK at 3:00am. About 2 days later ESPN in the UK confirmed the show would still be shown by them in the UK but not live. They would continue to broadcast the show at either 7:00am or 8:00am, just hours after the live broadcast on Premier Sports.

Let's wait and see what happens with this NHL deal.

click Ice Hockey and then click NHL http://www.premiersports.tv/

Premier Sports HD will be launching in due course which means at the appropriate time and that is now.
If Virgin Media sign a deal to get Premier Sports i think it will include Premier Sports HD.

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@PremierSportsTV are you going HD any time soon the sd picture is a little poor

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@Bloodzeed in due course. NASCAR fans were worries but picture is excellent for that so would expect same for NHL.

http://twitter.com/#!/premiersportstv

ken1234

13-10-2011 11:08

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314667)

Ken was right :)

i say thank you for that hd boy as i say i just post on here if i am 100% sure on the news i get if i am not sure i will not post about any news ;) i was right about skyany time and here it not just me Media Boy been right about all the channels you got in the past week he got a insided i got insided but we both will not give names out on here too anyone if we do there job may be on the line . but i say thank you too say i was right on here :)

snowey

13-10-2011 11:14

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314628)

Virgin Media might reach a deal very quickly with Premier Sports like they did with ESPN.

We live and hope....:)

HD Boy

13-10-2011 13:26

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Originally Posted by ken1234 (Post 35314872)

So the 2nd Tivo update in november will have the sky sports red button and bbc red button activated ?

denphone

13-10-2011 13:34

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314904)

So the 2nd Tivo update in november will have the sky sports red button and bbc red button activated ?

Maybe maybe not.

Chad	13-10-2011 13:37

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I've been as vocal as anyone in the past 16 months about Premier Sports coming to Virgin however I still don't think the channel will arrive on the back of them securing NHL rights.

Let's be honest in the UK our 4 main sports are Football, Rugby, Cricket and Boxing. Premier Sports have tried their best to secure as much Football, Rugby, Boxing and MMA rights as possible. Also for the petrol heads they secured NASCAR and Swedish Speedway. I'm not trying to wee all over the NHL, or anyone who follows hockey, however trust me this will not change Virgins view on the channel. Virgin view Premier Sports as a niche channel, carrying niche content.

Over the past 12 months there has been various campaigns run on boxing forums, boxing websites and boxing torrent sites to bombard Virgin with demands for the channel to be added. Similar campaigns have been run by fand of the Blue Square Premiership too.

The only way we'll see Premier Sports on Virgin is if they land the rights to screen major football such as Europa League or FIFA World Cup qualifiers. It's football content that sells. Look how quickly ESPN turned up on Virgin after securing the rights to screen 46 Premeirship games and 30 SPL games. Would ESPN be on Virgin without their British football content?

ozsat

13-10-2011 13:39

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I think they have had Europa League on it - I'm sure I watched the Stoke game on Premier Sports.

ken1234

13-10-2011 13:40

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314904)

So the 2nd Tivo update in november will have the sky sports red button and bbc red button activated ?

i cart say till i am 100% sure

HD Boy

13-10-2011 13:43

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Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 35314912)

I think they have had Europa League on it - I'm sure I watched the Stoke game on Premier Sports.

They had some Europa League qualifers.

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Originally Posted by ken1234 (Post 35314914)

i cart say till i am 100% sure

Nick O on the virgin forums has said feature updates will follow very soon after this update
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../708349#M17554

Chad	13-10-2011 13:44

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314915)

They had some Europa League qualifers.

I believe they also showed my team fail terribly in their attempts to qualify for the Champions League against Malmo both home and away. They also showed Sion Vs. Celtic in the Europa League qualifier. Nobody has exclusive rights to the qualifying stage of either the Champions League or the Europa League.

denphone

13-10-2011 13:45

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Originally Posted by HD Boy (Post 35314915)

They had some Europa League qualifers.

---------- Post added at 12:43 ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 ----------

Nick O on the virgin forums has said feature updates will follow very soon after this update
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../708349#M17554

Lets just wait and see.:)

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