Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Is this the same big Ron that had some of the first and best Afro Caribbean players this country had ever seen at west brom?

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no chance Den

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Would you say that it looks better than ESPN and Setanta? After the adverts and press that I've seen it looks like they've definitely invested a lot into the project.

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found another way to watch coverage not to bad

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Just found out Sky are getting it confirmed, for £12 a month? Although it is free if you already have Sky and take Bt Infinity? Also lady on the phone say the deal for Virgin should be signed by end of August?

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I'm not racist I've got loads of black friends ;)

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Speculation is before or around August 17, so that might be about right.

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This as been posted on vm help and support forum


All Virgin Media Customers Attention!

I have just got off the phone with a member of the CEO Office @ Virgin Media Ltd.

She has just advised me that customers in contracts with TV XL or ESPN can leave their contract for their TV or All services in their bundle with 30 Days notice,

But you only have until the 31st August 2013 to cancel your services and the answer to the question on everyones lips is NO you will not be held to pay the remainder of your contract off!

She advised my to call retention by dialing 150 from Virgin Home Phone and going to the options for Leaving Virgin Media.

This tells me they have given up all hope of getting bt sports anytime soon,150 in the morning and a call to sky on the cards tomorrow.chad muppetman I think I'm starting to believe in better !!!!!

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Maybe i'm being a tad naive here but do you think they could be bluffing? I mean, it's a possibility right?

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Speculation was
A week before BT Sport launch

On 1 Aug (or hours before)

now it is 17th

you might be right, but can I advise not holding your breath, at least, not in expectation it will happen :D

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could well be a false as lots things on here are no way I be leaving if don't get bt sport know where to find the games ;)

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Why does that discussion of facts lead you to believe such a thing?

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Well its a very brave/stupid move

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The more of your posts I read the more you sound like an ungrateful little child. You stated earlier you were educated, was that meant to be a joke?
You may not think its your problem, but the job nurses and that of our armed services do affect your life. Have up you never used the NHS?
And it's our armed services that you so flippantly state you do not care for that bravely both past and present give you the freedom you enjoy.

I think nurses and service men and woman deserve a lot more respect.

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Yeah I know what you mean. I'm a 'we get it..when we get it' kinda person so I won't be. :)

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Yeah, i'm leaning more towards brave personally.

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Best not to rise to the bait. I for one have a new name/word for "bile" :D

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Surely the sports themselves (rugby and football in patricular )are not going to be too chuff that potential cable users including small world virgin and you view are missing out. At least with the other guises before there was opportunity through all means to subscribe although I guess that precedent start by sky not agreeing a deal with BT for sky F1 and Ss3 & 4. I do think offcom need to get involved in this one, the ringing off this no one side can have all was meant to drive price down and make it available for all not the bleeding opposite

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yes, if I only had a choice of describing myself as brave or stupid, I tend to focus on the positive one :D

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I totally agree with you. I work for a company which is regulated by a government agency (I won't say which) but the powers they have are rather limited. The only way they could intervene is if Virgin goes to OfCom to complain but I don't think they would because it could jeopardize any deal.

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Has BomberAF been on yet?

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Haven't seen him... :erm:

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nope disappeared by looks of it mate

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It's this guys fault.. :)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/08/43.jpg

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l suspect he is booking his tickets for a life abroad.

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He was active yesterday at 17:09 "browsing" maybe PM him and find out why nothing has arrived?

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If he as any sense he won't

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Name is bomber, maybe he is dropping his load somewhere?

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l did send a message but alas none was forthcoming back to me.

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BT regard their foray into Pay TV sports as a long term strategy. They have signed a 10 year lease on property to facilitate BTSports.

If no deal can be reached, I'm sure VM will consider the regulatory and legal route.

The ESPN slate has been removed on my V+ and is now showing black level, I wonder if that is any significance??

ESPN America has been on black level since closure (I think) and is supposed to be showing a programme called Round The Horne. I wonder if ESPN America cut the feed a day early resulting in black level?

Did anyone watch this programme? Just interested in what it's about, I doubt it's anything to do with the camp radio programme from the 1960's :D

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I wonder if they're discussing BT Sport in there :D

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And the regulatory and legal route would take years judging by what has happened before with Sky Richard.

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If anybody wants to find him, he is a "man of the cloth" and lives in Letherbridge.

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Not worth calling Sky - you have to call BT to get it added to a Sky box.

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True, the Sky Basics row was settled out of court before the legal process took it's full course.

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A man of the cloth who lives in letherbridge

so many thoughts, I almost don't know where to start :D

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Please don't! haha ;)

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:nono::nono: please don't go down that route Colin.:D

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LMAO :D

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Well he certainly dropped a load here the other week

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yes a load of utter garbage

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Yes, it hurt (as the vicar said to, well, almost anyone who would :D)

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I know i'm new here and everything but could it be possible that BomberAF just had a dud source? Maybe he truly believed his source. I wouldn't exactly cast him away...especially to Letherbridge ;) Lots of bells ringing in that church!

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Perhaps he was one of those secret Skydor spies they often send to do their dirty work.;):D

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Possibly. And I for one have no issues with him.

But, for some, it did build their hopes up...:)

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Fair point, maybe you're right but then again..he might not be. ;)

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Now now Den. We don't need to do that, it seems you lot can do that far better, with more devastating results :D

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Yeah, exactly. People shouldn't pin all their hopes on rumor. They should wait for confirmation from Virgin or certain other sources. :)

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Sorry my young apprentice.:D:sorry:

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Confirmation from virgin lol virgin don't do confirmations they do coming soon.

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True lol. Well wait until they give concrete dates? :)

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The ESPN slate has been removed on my V+ and is now showing black level, I wonder if that is any significance??

ESPN America has been on black level since closure (I think) and is supposed to be showing a programme called Round The Horne. I wonder if ESPN America cut the feed a day early resulting in black level?


I wonder if they're discussing BT Sport in there

still got the slate up on my TiVo box

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Surely we will get to a point where everything is confirmed... Then this thread won't exist.

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I agree entirely. He came across as very credible, and I can see no obvious reason why somebody with an established history on this site would want to lie. I think it's fair to say his information is wrong, now, but I'm sure he posted it in good faith.

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Everyone questioned bomber, and he was adamant that the deal was done and all Virgin had to do was let BT market the channel till launch so they could pick up as many subscribers as possible, he was absolutely positive and shot everyone down with conviction. He probably was a Plant by VM to stop people being tempted to swap to BT whilst the free HD offer was on.

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Do you think Virgin would resort to something like this? If they did OfCom would have a field day with this fiasco.

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Ps everyone on here who constantly says we will get Atlantic soon, etc are all secret VM staff trying to make you indecisive about leaving... Then even if you get through to retentions you have them sowing doubts in your minds... Have you ever seen the episode of friends where chandler wants to cancel his gym membership?
Check my sig, you are a number.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

No. But conspiracy theories abound on this thread.

Latest one is Richard Branson is really Murdoch, and created Virgin to tease the virgin customers with "coming soon".

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You have to ask the question also if you think bt sports is coming soon why are retentions giving people 10 quid reduction in price ?? Think virgin have no chance of getting bt sports in xl package if it comes we will be paying bt for it... anyways I'm done. Till tomorrow adios amigos

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The top and bottom of it is, VM know what BT want for it, if VM are not even talking in the same ball park then a deal won't be done, and they may as well just come out and say it, but they won't admit they aren't going to get it because all those whom might like it will leave, so they constantly string you along by saying talks are ongoing, when if they are not going to pay what BT want then they aren't really trying to get it are they.

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Now that would be a talent! :)

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It is true what everyone is saying on this thread, l have watched what BT Sport is about as l have seen it on Freesat.

The annoying part for me is that they have had weeks to sort out this deal for customers, all they kept saying is that they 'are in talks'. Absolute and total rubbish, Since, it has been known that BT Sport was coming, the deal should have been done, the biggest problem with VM is they NEVER keep their customers know what is going on. They send you a crappy mag each month which only has adverts in it.

I think VM will lose a great deal of customers over this. I will stand by what l say, that if BT Sports is NOT on by the time Spurs KO on TV, which is the first or second game of the seaon, l will switch over.

Three years ago we had similar trouble on a sSpurs game and they gave me two months free. (i had a service breakdown)

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P.s. I don't blame BT trying to get what they charge Sky customers from VM customers, that's not to say I don't think it's overpriced, compared to Sky sports it most defiantly is, but if thats what BT want to charge then I think VM should just offer it at that price, if then only a few people sign up for it they will eventually reduce the price.

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I believe, honest, I believe :D

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Has MB had any inside info about a deal and why non was reached? It really would be interesting to see what BomberAf has to say about his inside info. It is a shame that VM didnt get channels as more people can get the channels even at extra cost. Amybe BT think they can rival VM as number 2 TV provider. Do people think that BT are in the sports game for the long term just like Sky is. Sky Sports is over 20 years old, will BT Sport get that milestone? P.S. Changed my details to show i have BT Sport and ESPN :D:D

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What he says about VM letting sky and BT is absolutely correct, no one would run a company like that, anything that VM manage to procur is always going to be reliant on having a strong and numerous customer base to use as leverage.

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wont do this imagine shareholders wont be pleased would not be shocked they already not happy.

I also can imagine SKRILL new sponsors conference angry loss potential viewers to conference football.

I would for like to see virgin be frank/honest to its customers. Lies deceit go only so far. The should traffic light coming soon in general terms. How many stalls been petty holdups by virgin trying play too hardball.

just while the war goes on seems XL got watered even more

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makes no sense to make XL weaker unless there hoping people go pay top whack for the vip/colections they call it now.

Its almost they diluting the XL. How much did XL monthly subs go up to cover ESPN then surely Virgin should reduce it by those subs.

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no cant see BT lasting over 20 years like sky have and cant see the BT spending the billions to compete with sky they all ready just under 2 billion behind sky on the football alone no way they beat sky on that sky will keep upping bids to they get rid of bt just like sentanta and espn

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It says in The Sun today that BT have said they will sell it WHOLESALE to VM, but not at the price VM want to pay. So there you all go, confidentiality out the window, the thing is for him to say that they must be quite a distance apart in their valuation, this is Atlantic all over again and unless VM change their tactics we will still be talking about it in 2 years... Just like Atlantic.

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What was the quarterly results like for VM? Wasnt they announced today?

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so BT are hypocrites they complain about sky and there overpricing and do the same with bt sports

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Due out sometime this evening once the stock exchange in NYC closes

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cheers

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Well, they've signed a 10 year lease to facilitate BT Sports.

Lol, it's a bit happy clappy for some residents, but some villagers do like it :)

Customer retention whilst talks are ongoing. I would imagine that these discounts will cease if/when BT Sports arrives.

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I can't remember the last time people were this angry at VM since the day Telewest killed everyone's TVDrives for about four hours.

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So that'll be anytime in the next hour I'm guessing. :) NYSE closes at 10PM.

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All I will say is everything comes to he who waits!

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Entirely possible. Talks shrouded in secrecy have been ongoing for some time now, a decision to let VM wholesale BT Sports has been reached, but the sticking point is price.

From what I was told, VM could not have marketed BT Sports until launch as Bomber said, even if a deal had been struck.

However, as BT Sports did not appear today, it is now clear that an agreement had not been reached and talk of it starting from launch were a tad premature.

I remember a similar situation with a football club channel (can't remember which one, it was possibly Arsenal or Liverpool).

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It was the loss of the Sky Basics for NTL customers.

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There won't be any results for VM they will be Liberty Global

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From this and other recent posts of yours, it sounds as if you have an 'insider'?

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any one want to have a sweepstake when a announcement will come

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I think he is just another one of those attention seekers.

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To be fair they have moved into the Olympic park, I doubt they would be able to secure a lease for any less than 10 years!

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Which includes VM as VM is entirely under Liberty Globals Stock

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Yes but I doubt they will break them out, it will be overall numbers of their global operation

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If you get BT Sport through Sky, do you get a login for the app/website?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Oh ok then. We will see

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Yes. You sign up on the BT Sport site

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Hmmm that might give me possibilities.

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Even if you're not with BT broadband?

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I have it on my Sky box and the app is on my iPad mini and phone. Also tried streaming via the site on my laptop. You can use it on as many devices as you want with max of 2 stream at anytime

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Yes as you are a BT Sport customer

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

What if you order it over the phone?

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If you set up a BT ID then yes

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So theoretically of course, could I watch via the app if i used a bt Id obtained by someone else? Legitimately of course.

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Exactly what I'm thinking.

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Yes you can

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only thing I believe in the Sun is the date on the front page

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I am even cautious about believing that.

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And they keep changing it!!! :D

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Denphone, I have many pages to trawl through, but I am disappointed by one normally so positive:bigcry: Things do indeed look bleak, but chin up good sir!!! You are a beacon of positivity, long may it continue (currently I am about 7 hours out of the loop) I humbly apologize if I have stolen anyone elses thunder or if VM have announced something. Chin up y'all!!!!

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Has not been given any update on the Virgin Media and BT Sports deal from any insiders.

When I do get any updates I will post it here or on 'Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.2' thread that will launch early next week on Cable Forum.

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Insiders?

More like 'Insider their owna head'

/Italian accent off

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Cheers mb as always,any news would be much appreciated at the minute.i have actually emailed the CEO office to try and get confirmation that customers can cancel mid contract because I have sadly decided to move to sky,2 years of waiting for sky Atlantic and of course universal amongst others and now this I have had enough.i have been checking Facebook and twitter all day and I can't believe some of the things I have read regarding vm staff and some of there attitudes to customers and still no official statement from vm makes it even worse,I have to give 30 days notice who knows in that time someone might actually do something at vm :(

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Agree bud Denphone as always kept is chin up and kept the faith,he must be terribly disappointed like the rest of us with recent vm actions (or lack off):(