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:D

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I wish STV would sell STV (Channel 3) to ITV as STV now have local Channels in Scotland to broadcast STV News and Scotland Tonight.

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October 1st will see the start of the rollout for vm upgrading broadbandspeed 52mbs - 100mbs, 100mbs- 200mbs, 152mbs - 300mbs.
SKY and Talktalk are currently trialing 940mbs speeds in selected areas.
BT are rumoured to start testing 1.5gbs soon.

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New local TV Channel on Virgin Media?

Can anyone tell me if That's Lancashire has launch on Virgin Channel 159 today in Blackpool, Preston and surrounding areas?

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No it hasn't

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Sounds like something the Horror Channel should be showing...

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STV local only covers edinburgh and glasgow, they have no plans to extend this out of these areas. The loss of Scottish Television would be a major blow to the national. STV do make some independent programming separate from ITV. Scotland does have a separate cultural identity and this is reflected in the different schedules here

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STV are set to launch the following local channels in Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee:

-Around Aberdeen
-Ayrshire Today
-View from the Bridges (Dundee)

90% of programming on Channel 3 in Scotland comes from ITV right now.

If ITV did take over an new look Scottish news from ITV will still appear on Channel 3 at 6pm.

STV News will just move to STV Local Channels.

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Our sources has confirmed in the past hour that BT SPORT FREE has now been rebrand as BT Sport Freeview.

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I tweeted AMCUK, about the possibility of the channel coming to VM. My tweet was picked up by VM and I was given this response:

Good afternoon. We're always in talks with channel providers to ensure that we're offering the best line-up of content for our customers. As soon as we have any news, we'll be raving about it on our customer news page ( http://virg.in/custnews ), so watch that space. ^ZR

we can hope.

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Speaking of local tv....Notts TV has gone 24 hours now

http://nottstv.com/

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This is their usual response, vms twitter team don't know their eggs from their bacon lol.

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I think their lips are sealed on forthcoming channel launches; yours less so. :)

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I think they probably know less than us. Too busy trying to be 'fun' and 'quirky' instead of dealing with customer queries etc. Same as the 12 year old idiots who run most corporate social media sites.

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Is it? Really? Can't say I've noticed.
OK, going up to 4 cities and 1 town. Not quite a comprehensive service, is it?
Wow! Sorted! ... long before there's any suggestion of a deal.

The inevitable political fall-out of STV being taken over by "English" ITV would run for years ...

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I call STV on Channel 3 - ITV Scotland anyway as 85+% of the lineup comes from ITV anyway.