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Player, Mix and Fun still exist but you can't choose to go on them

For current Mixit / Maxit, then The Box and Box Hits are in the Mixit Personal Pick 'Entertainment & Lifestyle', 4Music is in Mixit.

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Hopefully, most people know that Mixit = Player and Maxit = Full House, so any of the legacy packages in between will be available in Maxit. I can't say I've ever been a big fan of Virgin's package and bundle names but Mixit and Maxit. :shocked:

As for the personal picks, yes, The Box and Box Hits are in the "Reality Tier" which is sold with channels in the "Entertainment Tier" as "Entertainment & Lifestyle". Not confusing at all. ;)

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Although Mixit has the same line up as Player, Player doesn't allow for Personal Picks to be added. So they are separate tiers of service as far as I'm aware.

Same for Maxit and Full House - Maxit doesn't include the Kids channels, so is a separate tier even if the rest of the included channels are the same.

So it's possible to add a channel to Mixit but not Player (and above for legacy tiers) or in Maxit but not Full House.

Also there is no customer facing 'Reality tier' or singular 'Entertainment tier' in the Personal Picks - https://www.virginmedia.com/content/...s_Feb_2022.pdf

The channels in 'Entertainment' are always linked to another set of channels. Excluding Kids.

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The Maxit/Full House thing isn't that straightforward as I recall. There was original Full House, which has Kids TV included, and latterly one was introduced without Kids TV, which became Maxit. At least that's my recollection.

But as this is in the context of discussing Music channel availablity, probably not relevant now I think about it. :D

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BenMcr beat me to it, and with less words. :tu:

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And he added more after I typed that. LOL.

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UPDATE:

Sky now reporting that a extra 3 Eurosport HD Channels will now launch on Astra UK on Wednesday.

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-...2/td-p/3908814

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Sorry :D

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From what I have heard, Virgin is "upgrading" customers on the legacy Full House package to Maxit + Kids sans International channels. Yay!

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I don't see why it wouldn't be a straight swap for any change activity.

Changes to move customers off legacy tiers of service are to help reduce the complexity of billing, not to introduce a new variation.

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Right but I'm not sure how losing the international channels from the legacy "Full House" but still being charged the same price qualifies as an "upgrade". That said, most people won't miss the Asian channels. But very nice of Virgin to offer to sell the Asian Mela add-on to anyone missing these channels (which are FTA on Sky). ;)

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It started in April 2019: https://www.tvchannellists.com/w/Lis...-_New_Packages

I lost some last year when I was looking to save money - My Sky Sports HD deal is up later this year.

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The new packages have, indeed, been around for a while but co-existing with legacy packages. I think the free "upgrades" that result in customers losing channels are a relatively new thing.

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After I call up last year Virgin remove a following channels from my TV Box:

-Cartoon Network
-Cartoon Network +1
-Cartoonito
-Nickelodeon
-Nick +1
-Nick HD
-Nick Junior
-Nick Jr Too
-Nicktoons
-Boomerang
-Boomerang +1
-Cartoon Network HD
-SONY SAB
-B4U Music
-Colors Gujarati (Channel was not broadcasting at time - Channel was still to launch)
-COLORS HD
-Colors Rishtey
-Colors Cineplex

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That's fairly normal for someone phoning retentions to save money and being put onto a new package. Not quite the same as someone on a legacy pack getting an unsolicited "upgrade" via email. Colors Gujarati has only ever been in the Asian Pack, it arrived a bit late for legacy Full House.

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I had a call about a couple of weeks ago from their offshore place saying I was being 'upgraded' from Full House (with a tone that suggested that I had no choice in the matter).

Basically, I would have been paying £9 more and losing the kids channels. There was no mention of the Asian channels. I don't watch either, but they are useful for when children are here to keep them occupied and the Asian channels are used when Indian friends visit from Birmingham and abroad.

In return, I was told that I wouldn't face an increase in March. So, I was expected to pay £9 extra a month from January, in return for less channels and saving £6 from March!!!

I told her to leave my account alone and, as it's turned out, I won't be paying the increase anyway, but 25p less than I am now. They must think that people have no intelligence at all :erm:

Do the above posts mean that I will eventually be forcibly removed from Full House?

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No current plans that I'm aware of to actively retire Full House for those on it, or the other 3 legacy tiers that are listed in the TV Edit channel guide.

Not to say that there won't be at some point, but I'd expect it would be an email or letter to advise of the change rather than just a phone call.

It's possible that that the 'organic' migrations off the legacy tiers where customers make changes to services is going well enough for now.

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Any news on the future of BT Sport? Last I heard, DAZN were in advanced talks to purchase BT outright, but I feel Disney/ESPN might hijack the deal.

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It was reported late last year at BT Sports was still in talks with DAZN, Disney and Discovery. Seen nothing new in 2022 so far.

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That is exactly what seems to be happening but doing that does appear to be actively retiring Full House. The email apparently present this as a fait accompli. It doesn't offer a choice and miss-sells the change as an upgrade.

The wording apparently is "You don't need to do anything we've already sorted this for you. And your monthly price won't change." Of course, Virgin doesn't respond to emails, so more of an enforcement than an offer.

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TV Series "Dr. Who" starting from Season 7 (Made in 1970) will be shown on Forces TV from February 15th on Virgin UK Channel 274 and Freeview HD Channel 96.

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UPDATE: A extra 3 Eurosport HD Channels has now been added to Sky EPG.

So they will launch on Virgin within the next 48 hours (At around midnight).

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DBR is showing that The BBC are testing an new HD Channel.

I have work out a test showing BBC Red Button. Virgin are also testing "Teletext" on CO 74 slot 10 - but one copy has appear so I think a tests will turn out to be BBC Parliament.

I know that both BBC Parliament and BBC ALBA is set to go HD by 2023.

https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...&sec=0&lang=en

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SONY TV HD (Ch 805) has had its free to view period terminated.
SONY SAB (Ch 807) has started a free to view period.

Surely they didn't put the wrong channel on FTV? :shocked:
Moving on...

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BBC RB HD perhaps?

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I think if a channel was going to temporary it would have been on CO71.

I know that both BBC Parliament and BBC ALBA is set to go HD by 2023.

If you look that DBR CO 74 you will find three slots are free (Maybe for the following)

-BBC FOUR HD - 2309
-(No name - SID2310) - 2310
-No Channel - 2311
-No Channel - 2312
-BBC THREE HD - 2313
-BBC THREE HD - 2314
-BBC THREE HD - 2315
-BBC FOUR HD - 2316
-BBC FOUR HD - 2317
-BBC FOUR HD - 2318

I am thinking 2310 will be for BBC Parliament HD,

2311 will be for BBC ALBA HD (Scotland only - EPG Channel 120.)
2312 will be for BBC ALBA HD (England, Wales and Northern Ireland only - EPG Channel 162.)

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If you say so. :D
We'll just have to wait and see.

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Maybe for all we know The BBC have told Virgin that their can't broadcast UK Parliament live when in testing mode.

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A HD version of BBC Parliament would be useful at the moment, if only to observe the look of anguish on Boris's face as ever more Partygate details are revealed. :D

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Both BBC Parliament HD and BBC ALBA HD are broadcasting on Sky Glass.

BBC do not have BBC Red Button HD Channel.

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Thanks Ben.

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They do for Wimbledon and Olympics.... Even Glastonbury

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Well, they certainly tried to insinuate that it was a done deal to me and that I had no say in the matter. Very sly.

If they had 'upgraded' me, even for no extra cost, I would lose channels. I'm pretty sure that this no extrs cost claim would be abandoned at renegotiation time too, or when discounts expire.

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I think they are both upscaled - not HD source.

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BBC have them as HD on iPlayer apparently - so not impossible for them Sky Glass to be using the same IP feed

https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/hd-stream-...bbc-parliament

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They were still upscaled last week on Glass.

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DS Forum is reporting that two HD Channels are testing on Sky at "11.494 H".

I have look up DBR to find that QVC Channels broadcasting on that stream.

So is QVC and QVC Beauty is to launch in HD on Sky and Virgin Media?

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This in The Guardian today:

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Virgin Media is making 20 of its channels available free of charge during February.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2022...e-in-february/

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. . . he says it's more than 20 channels and then lists all 18 of them :erm:

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I wonder if he got the story from when it was posted on here and other forums yesterday?

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It looks like he missed one. ;)

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‘more than 20 channels’ was cited in an ISP report as well, so this must have come from Virgin Media itself. I presumed that this wasn’t a complete list, despite the words immediately preceding it.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...ls-in-feb.html

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So if you already subscribe to those channels, you'll get a discount ? ;)

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If only….

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If you skip back 4 pages to when Media Boy originally broke the news you would be able to see the link to the actual Virgin Media press release. It did indeed suggest more than 20 channels before going on to list 18 of the 19 which currently have free to view access. The original version actually listed all 19 channels but Virgin seem to have got a bit confused and put the wrong channel on free to view for a while. That channel is now removed from the press release as if it was never there. The wrong channel numbers listed seem to have been corrected too. I think Media Boy pasted from the original version if you wish to refer back. All in a day's work. ;)

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Do I hear the sound of the barrel bottom being scraped?

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Yesterday at 1.11pm when "I broke the news" - see post 294 on this thread:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=294

Virgin Media O2 now says:

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I wonder if this is to try and appease people as they receive their bill increase notifications?

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Cheers, I wasn't quite prepared to spend that much time on this issue. But your comparison shows that the channel number errors had been corrected and that, what they refer to as, SAB TV has been removed. Initially, SONY TV HD on 805 was available to all. This later reverted to normal subscription packs and was replaced with SONY SAB on channel 807 becoming available to all. So it now seems that everything is as originally intended, errors have been corrected but the number of channels has been miscounted.

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Only if they don't notice the channels will only available to everyone for a month.

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A reminder of the official source:

https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/vir...no-extra-cost/

Saying 'more than 20' channels then listing 18, and with the SD/HD/+1 variants of the same channel taken out it is actually only 12 channels 😂

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Have tried a couple of devices and Alba and Parliament stay SD quality on iPlayer.

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I don't think they've done anything other than upscale it at the moment.

However, it would only be 720p HD rather than 1080p HD, the latter has only just started being rolled out at the end of last year.

Here is the link I posted on this thread on 28th January about devices supporting 1080p iPlayer.https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/q...s/1080-streams

Only Humax-manufactured TV360 and their mini boxes are supported on Virgin Media. Spiderplant corrected me regarding identifying the relevant model numbers given.

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I've tried the Firestick Max this morning too - the only Firestick which currently does HDR with the iPlayer (unless the others were eventually fixed).
But those two remain SD quality when left to build up.
It may be upscaled but the quality is way down compared to the other channels.

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CONFIRM: Create & Craft new owners may axe channel on Virgin from February 25th.

Hochanda Global Ltd has today reveal a following may happen from February 25th on Virgin TV:

HGL says "We are exploring our options to remain on Virgin due to the high costs involved and if we can, we will."

748. Create & Craft (May close on February 25th).

https://thecraftstore.com/about/what...Is0DNl0unTg2Bc

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Some creative thinking needed to cut costs. Maybe craft a new deal.....

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Digital Spy Forum RUMOUR: Is Sky UK Ltd set to close Syfy in March?

DS Forum poster has started a rumour after seeing a following on the Syfy web site:

"their website Syfy listings only goes up to 1st of March with last programme at 5am"

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_100411194

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Zee TV HD has launch today on CO 75 Slot 9.

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Not quite. It launched on TSID 512 SID 1210. Which would, indeed, be C 75 is you are using digitalbitrate. Also the video & audio streams linked to the BBC RB HD service on TS 23 have been removed. It's meaningless to use the Cxxx numbers on digitalbitrate as they are only valid for Manchester networks.

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That would be a sad loss. At this rate, there will be nothing of interest at all to watch from the EPG, and rather more quickly than anticipated.

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I agree. With most of the quality content, from the previous satellite or cable only channels, all moving into paid streaming services, all that will be left on the epg will be the terrestrial free to air channels. Virgin should embrace this new era and work with all the app providers and give us access to all the streaming content based within your subscription.

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Wouldn't be that surprising

Syfy in other counties like the US , France , Germany have aired recently

Chucky
Resident Alien
SurrealEstate
Day Of The Dead

The first 2 Sky put on Sky Max , SurrealEstate hasn't turned up , Sky acquired Day Of The Dead back in September and still haven't aired it yet.

Movies24 goes up to end of 4th March now (updated daily) , Syfy still only goes to 5am on 1st of March.

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Sky UK Ltd runs Syfy for both UK and Germany for Comcast.

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Seems that VirginMedia is the only UK platform offering Eurosport 4K in HDR. Sky only have it in SDR.

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Yes Sky UK run the UK channel but I don't think they run the Germany channel https://www.syfy.de/ueber-syfy

As you can see it still has proper website unlike the UK.

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Oh god, not another rumour of a TV channel closing just because listings haven't been updated.

Following that logic, all of the MTV channels should have shut down at the end of 2021 when their listings stopped being updated on their website.

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Oops sorry - I think Syfy is run by Sky UK Limited is due to Brexit.

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Or you could just find the reporting

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019...ets-in-europe/

Of note is the decision to fold NBCU’s UK PayTV channels, which include E!, Syfy and Universal TV, in with Sky’s broad-based portfolio of sports, movie and entertainment channels; and base them at Sky’s Osterley HQ. NBCU’s EMEA Networks team will also be located at the same West London site. In a similar move in Germany, Sky will become the parent company of NBCU’s Networks business.

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NBC News video tests appear on Sky.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/nbc-news-n...-for-uk-launch

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I did see that link in 2019 but forgot about it.

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I was about to watch Escape to the Country on BBC channel 101 at 3 pm, it's showing on the list, but that's not what is on, anyone any idea why.

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Olympics Opening Ceremony over ran - things are 15 minutes late.

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Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony ran a bit late?

It’s on now.

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Thanks, guys.

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DBR is reporting that video & audio streams linked to the BBC RB HD service on TS 23 was off last night (time at 1.10am) but is now online.

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Does anyone know why Eurosport 3 HD, 4 HD and 5 HD couldn't have been put on VM 523, 524 and 525 next to Eurosport 1 HD and 2 HD on 521 and 522?

Eurosport 4K could have been on the next available VM slot, which I think would have been 532 next to BT Sport 4K on 531.

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They are temporary Winter Olympics channels so Virgin has just given them a same Discovery got for temporary Summer Olympics channels last year

But if BT Sport do merge with Discovery I think:

-Eurosport brand will get axe in the UK.
-BT/Discovery will be on Virgin Channels 521 to 525 with MUTV moving back to 526.

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No changes were reported at the 6am refresh, so I guess the streams were still AWOL at that point. I did get a message sometime this morning saying they are back. Strange!

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The old configurations are still in the system, even up to Eurosport 9HD, so probably easier not to change them. As I said previously the placeholder for Eurosport 6 HD was moved along with 3HD-5HD, so they are being kept together.

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It all sounds vaguely familiar, as if the same conclusion has been drawn previously when the website listings ran out. I wonder if people do the same sort of thing when they notice the train timetables end on a specific date. I've not noticed lots of forum posts about the railways being closed down. :D

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DBR is reporting that BBC HD test was back online by 8.52am today.

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I think that's just the time when the DBR scanner checked the transport stream, the elementary streams could have been back earlier.

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Moving back to 526? MUTV is already on 526, hence the opportunity for Eurosport 3 HD, 4 HD and 5 HD to slot in.

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They must have been listening to you. My V6 is now showing them on 523/4/5 with 4K on 532.

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Lovely! I wonder where they will be tomorrow. Why not release the channel numbers to the Radio Times etc and then put them somewhere else entirely after the first day. Virgin are doing a great job this week. :rolleyes:

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Media Boy View: With Virgin Media moving Eurosport temporary Winter Olympics channels LESS than 24hours after launch.

Are Virgin getting ready for a BT/Eurosport Channels later this year.

On this day:

In 1989 at 6pm saw the launch of Sky TV (Here is the UK Channels lineup on that day):

01 - Screensport
04 - Eurosport (Part own by Sky)
05 - The Children's Channel (6am - 10am WD & 6am - Midday WE)
05 - Lifestyle (10am - 5pm WD & Midday - 5pm WE)
05 - Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox (10pm - 6am)
08 - Sky One (6am - 2am)
12 - Sky News
15 - MTV Europe
16 - Sky Movies (2pm - 6am)

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WD means Weekday
WE mean Weekend

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Thanks for heads-up Dingbat. :)

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Oh wow, VM actually listened! That's so much easier for viewers having them on these logical channel numbers.

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And the Radio Times this week is also correct. As this week s edition went to print last week I can only assume the moving Eurosport channels was already planned last week.

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But why move them instead of starting them on the intended slots in the first place :confused:

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This is Virgin we are talking about.:D

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They may have decided the easiest thing was to copy the last Olympics as it was "in the system" and they could just flick a switch. They may have also thought the other channels would be annoyed about being leapt over and thought it was safer not to P them off. Then later consulted and amended the positions.

I didn't realise the gap was big enough, at a glance, to fit in 3/4/5. Not impossible someone at VM didn't realise immediately either.

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I still think Virgin move temporary Winter Olympics was down to a following:

-Liberty Global own 50% of Virgin Media O2.
-Liberty Global and Discovery own All3Media.
-Liberty Global owner (Wiki says that) John C. Malone is also on a Board of Directors of Discovery Inc. - https://corporate.discovery.com/our-company/leadership/
-BT and Discovery are in talks to merge - where did Eurosport UHD end up? beside BT Sport UHD Channel.

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epsilon is reporting over on DS Forum that

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_100433364

Just 4 MONTHS after doing a same thing.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...postcount=1588

This Virgin Media UK set to axe Kids Package?

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I doubt that. It's more likely to be associated with the 'free channels for all' month. The kids channels are not listed in this article, although clearly the list is not comprehensive because it originally referred to 'over 20 channels', but only listed 18.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/virgin-med...ll-subscribers

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I have just started to see reporting of Kids channels being free today.

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Probably for mid term breaks.

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It only listed 18 of 20 but SAB was opened too and wasn't in the list - so there may be another somewhere.

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https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...tv-open-window

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And lose the extra revenue? Pfft!

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It isn't but at least the over 20 channels claim is now correct.


Official press release now available: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/vir...no-extra-cost/

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Discovery-WarnerMedia merger latest:

Last Friday (4th February) Discovery-WarnerMedia merger was give a approved by Cade (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica) in Brazil.

https://twitter.com/RegularTweetsUK/...49572993409031

But I have still to see anything on America and UK given Discovery-WarnerMedia merger it approved. EU approved it in Late December 2021.

Discovery & AT&T hopes to close a "Discovery-WarnerMedia merger" mid 2022.

Info found by RegularCapital via Twitter.

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Breaking News:

The HD Version of BBC Red Button One now has been added to the SDT and now has an official service label / name. HD versions of BBC One London HD (SID 1509) BBC One Scotland HD (SID 1610), BBC ONE NI HD (SID 1810), BBC ONE Wales HD (SID 2410) and BBC TWO HD (SID 2510) have been added in the background for launch on channels 866 to 869 and 872 respectively.

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So are they carrying extra steams for those regions "for national use" or are they using extra labels to point to them from different channel numbers?

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US regulatory approval for Discovery takeover of WarnerMedia.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2022...medium=twitter

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Video / Audio were still to be added but the new SDT labels are on national transport streams. Regional networks don't have access to regional transport streams other than those specific to their area.

You've stumbled upon another issue, that being will London and the nations take their (BBC One HD) feeds from the national streams (going forward) rather than regional ones but it's way too early to start looking into that. (Recently, when SID / PID numbers for the new BBC One HD regions were rationalised - they took the old, vacated, SD SIDs etc - the SID for London didn't change. Which was odd.)

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Is Virgin testing BBC Two for Northern Ireland and Wales for launch on 86x?

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No, just the current BBC One HD versions and the (England/Scotland) version of BBC Two HD

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Just asking - Thanks anyway.

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What could WBD’s merger for existing channels on Sky and VM? I could see the combined company’s Freeview channels like Quest staying on air, but repurposed as general-entertainment channels. Deadwood like TCM, Discovery History and Boomerang closing down. When BT and Eurosport merge, they’ll probably cut their linear presence from 6 channels to 4, with greater emphasis on discovery+ for sports entertainment.