Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35377485)

Some of those are foreign language and community channels,so don't know if it is up your street Alan haha But off a mixed background and the multicultural area London is i'm sure it will serve a wide audience here.



Hellenic TV used to broadcast on Virgin Media Analogue in the Telewest(Cable London) North London area(Camden,Harringey,Enfield,Hackney and Islington) to serve the Greek community and it is not available on Sky and many people are complaining about its availability.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35377501)

When I worked in Faults for Telewest, we used to have a lot of Greek customers subscribing to analogue just for this channel in North London. They held on to analogue until it was switched off and rufused to upgrde to Telewest Active Digital. :)

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35377506)

I know until 2009 and everyone was complaining about it, it is madness, there is no way to subscribe unless you use satellite equipment and Sky don't provide this channel, it was only about £6 per month and was on Channel 42

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35377516)

Yeah but that works out expensive when you want UK channels as well, I mean think about it, it is a lot of lost revenue for Virgin Media, if they had it on Digital nationally, they would have the £6 per month for the premium channel plus the £24.50 for XL TV, most would abandoned Virgin Media TV for the loss of that channel.

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35377485)

Some of those are foreign language and community channels,so don't know if it is up your street Alan haha But off a mixed background and the multicultural area London is i'm sure it will serve a wide audience here.

By the way some of the channels above used to broadcast on Virgin Media in the NTL areas like Bubble Hits,Flava and Dance Nation TV. DW-TV,Travel Channel and Fashion TV used to broadcast on Virgin Media in the Telewest areas.

Hellenic TV used to broadcast on Virgin Media Analogue in the Telewest(Cable London) North London area(Camden,Harringey,Enfield,Hackney and Islington) to serve the Greek community and it is not available on Sky and many people are complaining about its availability.

JSTV is only available on Virgin Media Analogue in the Milton Keynes area, which to me makes sense when the Japanese population is next to nothing haha

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35377501)

When I worked in Faults for Telewest, we used to have a lot of Greek customers subscribing to analogue just for this channel in North London. They held on to analogue until it was switched off and rufused to upgrde to Telewest Active Digital. :)

Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35377566)

I'd love Russia Today, but that's to suit a specific interest that I accept not everyone has. Sky Atlantic, on the other hand, doesn't excite me very much, but the benefits I as a customer would expect from the increased revenue it's carriage would bring make that the next "must have". Producing long lists of channels you want is pie in the sky.

Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35377574)

It is at least available online. This is what Tivo apps should be used for in my opinion-filling the gaps in Virgin's channel line up by streaming online versions, not glorified adverts for Sky premium channels.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35377576)

It there a app for Sky Atlantic?

Virgn has been rather slow in TIVO apps!

Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35377580)

Sky Atlantic over the internet is only for Sky customers through Sky Go. Russia Today streams their programming for free on their website. I can understand why we haven't got Atlantic, what I can't understand is why we can't have a Tivo app that is basically just the content streamed from the Russia Today website? I imagine it will be down to rights, but what's the actual difference between that and me streaming it to my laptop and displaying through an HDMI lead on my TV?

None, surely?

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35377533)

Well I would like:

BET
BET+1
MTV Classics
CBS Drama
Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic HD
Food Network
Russia Today
Fox News
Fashion TV
Deutsche Welle(DW TV)
Channel S
Dance Nation TV
Bubble Hits
Flava
The Vault
ITV HD Channels 2,3 and 4
Universal HD
History HD
Style Network
Travel Channel
MGM HD

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Is Hellenic TV shut down, also why did they refuse to go digital?

Originally Posted by m419 (Post 35377655)

No, Virgin Media thought it didn't have a wide enough audience so does Sky however, it clearly does. Virgin Media doesn't like regional channels which is probably why they got rid of Channel M,MATV and they also tried to get rid of Channel 7 but it still remains.