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I don't get it. I thought 5HD had already launched, how hard can it be to get it done on Freeview?

I want more BBC HD channels personally. Axe 3/4 and have 1/2/News as HD maybe? Probably not a popular idea though.

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I have already said what i think the reason is for that.

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This is a likely option

BBC One HD , BBC Two HD , BBC HD (focused around BBC Three , BBC Four , Some kids programs and maybe some News in HD also)

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I'd be happy with that.

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I think it is more broadcast related as other stations that have 4:3 material seem to appear fine, CBS action were showing TNG in the correct 4:3 as is Horror with their Highlander showings.

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I'd rather have more choice in SD rather than losing channels just so we can have more HD, still don't see the point of HD News channels.

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I have said on this page what i think will happen.

Also BBC News will be showing in HD on BBC One HD and BBC Two HD later next year.

So there is no point in a BBC News HD channel.

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BBC aren't going to get given the spot like last time, I imagine no-one will use/get it.

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Considering ofcom has said the spare capacity will be handed back to the BBC.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35...-post5367.html

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Which they can't afford to run.

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l suspect quite a few of these will arrive next year.

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I don't know why anyone would want to watch those.

BET butcher near enough every TV show they air.

What they did to the wire was ridiculous. They cut out huge story lines because they weren't focused on the black characters. The season around the ports near enough the entire port storyline was cut because it didn't involve black characters.

The world has no place for "affirmative racism" and that channel epitomises it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I am aware of that and indeed made mention of it and the requirement to increase bandwidth or use a more efficient delivery mechanism further up the thread. However, eventually all TV will be HD* and 3D will be the next big thing, followed no doubt by an even higher definition standard, so the infrastructure will have to be able to facilitate this by a number of possible means including:-

• Better use of the existing bandwidth
• Expanding the bandwidth of the existing infrastructure (as is already being done for broadband)
• Improved delivery mechanisms (such as IPTV)
• FDDH - Fibre to the Home as opposed to co-ax from the street cabinet (see Fibre to the x)

Remember when 10Mb/s broadband was 'da bomb' on VM? Remember when a V.90/V.92 56kb/s modem was 'light speed' over a pair of twisted copper wires even if you only achieved 50kb/s or 52kb/s?

*Are there any stragglers which are still not widescreen? :(

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<SPOOF>

There's an alternative to vinyl? :erm: Not that 8-track or compact cassette magnetic tape rubbish! They're no good at all as the magnetic mount on my CB radio antenna keeps erasing them. :(

You have to calibrate them? :confused: You geek types take this stuff far too seriously. :rolleyes: Mine works fine right out of the box and I wasn't conned into buying one o' they fancy HDMI cables neither. :dunce: Nope, mine works fine with the SCART cable from my VCR although I have to connect the VCR to the TV via the RF co-ax cable now. :)

Never mind the quality, feel the width (of my wallet, that is)! :cool:

</SPOOF>

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You see Arthur, if you spent more time here and less time over there you'd have the facts, the complete facts and nothing but the facts and in a timely fashion too.

So it refers to January of this year, not last year as some are mistakenly saying, and not January of next year or this coming year however you might care to phrase it. I think that we've established that now though.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I am not sure about 3D being the next big thing.

Virgin Media are expanding bandwith for HD channels to 80 HD channels by Dec 2013. That will increase even more than that when they switch to MPEG4 which they will likely do in 4 or 5 years when everyone is on the TiVo platform.

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The defence for retaining the BBC as a publicly funded, non-commercial entity has always been about quality. The problem is that the BBC feel that they have to compete for audiences and, unfortunately, audiences apparently want tat! The News of the World and other media that are the subject of the Levinson Enquiry supplied what there was demand for. If nobody wanted to know who's phoning Hugh Grant late at night and what's in Alan Partridge's refuse bin then the more serious infringements might not have occurred.

What were the NotW readers reading about and watching on TV when stories such as the DTI brokering deals to sell Super-gun components to Iraq or, more recently, a cabinet minister bringing his 'friend' to MoD meetings with foreign governments and overseas 'suppliers' were being reported? That is reality TV not Pricey Kate mentoring future captains of industry. The problem is that a large portion of the public need to know what they don't want to know but want to know what they don't need to know.

Maybe the Nanny State should force the population to watch a certain number of hours of quality BBC programming each week!

Even BBC English has suffered on the BBC News channel and prime-time programmes such as Breakfast. The constructs of sentences both on the spoken and ticker versions of the news are terrible and, if you were to take them as they are presented, often mean something very different to what is intended.

If the BBC need to make cuts to stay within the Licence Fee budget it should aim to deliver quality not quantity.

I was going to post a quip the other day about saving money by making all of those expensive natural history series at BBC Bristol instead of 'in the field'. After all, we already know that they fabricate the sound-effect tracks there anyway. They use (Bird's) custard in rubber gloves for birds taking off! Then I saw on Have I got News for You last night that they have been using footage from a wildlife park in The Netherlands to show polar bears being born 'in the wild'. Scandalous! :shocked: Apparently it's a bit more Richard Attenborough than David Attenborough these days.

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Ah yes, the 'smartening up' division of the BBC which, once you've reached adulthood, transfers you into the incapable hands of the 'dumbing down' division. :(

(John Craven's) Newsround - the first news programme for children in the world and I still find myself watching it before Pointless starts. Happy Birthday NS and Happy Anniversary to John. Quality! :tu:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

They could have saved money by not wasting £22 million on The Voice

That 22 million is only for The rights to The Voice for 2 years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-X-Factor.html

Then add the money for The presenter and The judges and it is even more money wasted.

That money could be have been a lot better spent.

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Yes l have to agree with you as l am fed up with these talent shows and would much rather watch a Science fiction series or a good drama series then watching a bunch of wanabees celebritys flouncing around all the time.

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And dont forget the never ending cooking series what now seem to be appearing everywhere, as well as chat shows.

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Yes you are getting me started now as there has not been a decent chat show since Parky in my mind and as for cooking shows they need to go back to basics to learn some people of how to cook properly before they start to become more extravagant in their cooking.

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It might if one of them is 179 - God Channel! :)

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I have already said why 2 channels will not close on 1st January 2012

The only channel that is closing for sure is Sky Living Loves on Tuesday 24th January 2012.

Sky Livingit +1 might also close on Tuesday 24th January 2012 or it might not.
Current TV might also close or it might not.

We will have to wait and see.

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We've established that World News is commercially operated already, so no change there, and that the target audience for World Service is outside the realm of the licence payer, so there are a few options available to reduce costs and source funding from elsewhere:-

• Merge World News and World Service and have them both commercially funded. There would be significant savings to be made anyway by merging.
  
• Make World Service an internet only broadcaster and do away with the cost of running and maintaining their transmission facilities and satellite leases. You would make a fortune selling off the vast transmitter sites. You could feed a third world country with the crops grown on the land if it were converted to agriculture. ;)

So, you're agreeing that the BBC should be "more autonomous and more business-like" but suggesting that it should have limitless, self-determined public funding with no supervisory body controlling the funding or overseeing how it is spent. Er, no thanks! Anyway, those are contradictory stances. Running an operation on the basis of limitless, self-determined public funding is not being "more autonomous and more business-like".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

This is a coming soon to Virgin TV thread not " how the BBC should be run and payed for " thread.

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It might if one of them is 179 - God Channel! :)

Er, you do realise that I was joking, don't you? :erm:

Nothing is closing on 1st January 2012, not because it is a Sunday but because the OP was referring to January 2011 (unless I too have become confused as that was a Saturday :confused:).

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Thank you for your un-requested moderation.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

May l remind you of this posting on post 5415 by you.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Well that is Show is coming to Virgin TV. I just think something much better could be showing on the BBC on Virgin TV.

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What I love about Virgin's TiVo offering is that it allows you to cut through the dross which ALL channels show in amongst the few nuggets of real quality. When I had Sky I had thousands of channels but never anything to watch, now I have fewer channels but am never stuck.

This is also how I feel about (what I consider to be the excellent) IPlayer app on TiVo - it allows me to cut through a lot of the rubbish that the BBC produces and find some really excellent television. And lets be fair, the BBC does make some really excellent television.

However, whilst I can accept that TiVo is a great tool for sorting through the rubbish churned out by commercial channels, I find it hard to reconcile the need for a tool to sort through the rubbish produced by the BBC. There shouldn't be any!

I don't really have an opinion about the future of the licence fee or who should control it. What I do know is that you'd struggle to find a pay TV option for about a tenner a month with 5 SD channels, 2 HD channels and an enormous on demand library - factor in the radio channels and it really is superb value for money. But what I do have an opinion about is quantity over quality, and in future I'd really like to see less, not more from the BBC because, as Felim quite rightly points out, they really are now paying the price for trying to compete with some of the trash served up elsewhere. And thats a shame.

On a slightly different note, my wife is up in arms about one of the, admittedly unconfirmed, suggestions on here that we might lose E! at some point in 2012 and wants to know who to email:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I have seen that someone on here and i can not remember where i seen it.

Try this email.

salesUK-e@glam.com

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Yeah, sorry all, got a bit carried away! :rolleyes: I'll be real good from now on! :angel:

Anyway, the point is that we would like more channels but better quality from the existing channels would be an improvement.

BTW, I demand a recount of MB's top posters of 2011 as I believe I've moved up a few places in the table (but perhaps not in a good way)! :(

*unrequested (by which Hugh meant "unsolicited") but not unrequited.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

l don't think there is much chance of this channel being taken off Virgin in 2012.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Maybe E! HD will launch in the UK in 2012 :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Much rather have ITV 4 HD, Universal HD or Sky Atlantic HD then a HD variant of this channel.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I was only joking. I would really like ITV 4 HD, Universal HD and Nat Geo Wild HD.

If ITV4 HD comes maybe early next year then the other 2 ITV HD channels would also come.

ITV4 HD is the best out of all 3 ITV HD channels IMO.

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(Whispers) wouldn't be too upset to see it go!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Yes don't tell the wife of your thoughts.:D

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As has already been mentioned a few times several pages back, PVR is not always the solution and time-shift, however it might be better delivered, is a flexible and useful feature.

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Use thicker cable? :erm: ;)

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It was a totally unfounded comment. E! gets respectable viewing figures.

http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weekly-viewing?_s=3

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It gets more than CBS Action :erm:

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I know the comment was unfounded. I know it's not likely to go. My wife does not know these things.

I see no reason to upset the status quo!

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Thats surprises me as l know which channel l would watch.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Same here. CBS Action is also on Freesat and E ! is not on freesat. That is Very weird.

E ! also has better viewing figures than CBS Drama , Sky Living Loves, Eden , Sony TV , Bio , Nat Geo Wild , Crime & Investigation

There is no chance of E ! leaving Virgin Media anytime soon IMO.

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Which only goes to prove the point made by Felim Doyle earlier. People want trash!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Lets get back to discussing whats coming soon and does anybody have any news on ESPN supposed plans to launch a sports news channel which was rumoured to be coming this year.

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Don't forget to watch some science fact too! :tu:

Then there are the 'fusion' shows: celebrities cooking, cooking talent shows, Heston Blumenthal cooking with science (sometimes resulting in science-fiction creations), renovating a river cottage while stalking wildlife to put in your casserole. :rolleyes:

I noticed Fanny Cradock on Good Food the other day with her Christmas recipes and I'm sure Delia is still to be found demonstrating simple meals with a few eggs.

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Yeah, just like the illegal drug trade, if the authorities concentrated on eliminating the demand, they wouldn't have to eliminate the supply which is generally more difficult. In a democracy, it's hard to control the media but if people were more discerning in their choice of viewing and reading material, the commercial ramifications would do the controlling automatically.

The BBC One / Challenge quiz show Pointless is quite entertaining but it's sometimes astonishing what the contestants and the surveyed public do and don't know. I'm sorry to say it's becoming reminiscent of polls in the US where fewer than 50% of the public knew who the current president was and such like. I'm sure there are some segments of the UK population who know more about the lives of fictional characters on TV or the actors that play them than the important things that directly affect their own lives.

The various BBC and ITV talent shows have produced some good acts but some duds too. Unfortunately, many of the duds from talent and reality :rolleyes: shows have continued to negatively impact our lives by hosting shows of their own and fuelling the tabloids with their dysfunctional lives.

So, if we are to raise the standard of the publicly funded programming, we also need to raise the standard of the commercially funded programming and that requires the public to demand better quality.

Virgin Media are a commercial enterprise and will endeavour to supply the channels that their customers demand (i.e. will pay for). So, in 2012, it's up to us to influence what's "Coming Soon to Virgin TV" so that we get what we want and not what we deserve!

Yeah I know, a simplistic view but it's a starting point.

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Why on earth is the BBC spending that much when it can afford to send presenters to Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine

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That is incorrect.

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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Den had posted eariler today if there was any news on a new ESPN channel which was meant to be coming in 2011 ? It was removed for some reason

Does anyone have any info about a new ESPN channel ?

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It got deleted as part of a clean-up. I've restored the post.

As for the question, I don't recall it being anything definite so I'd imagine in the current financial climate ESPN have decided to hold off for now.

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what was this 4th channel someone was on about last last week any one know

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

There was no 4th channel so l would put that down to speculation and nothing more then that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Spiderplant could know the answer to that.

My guess is it was only a Engineering channel.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Why has the BBC HD channel got two identical pictures :erm: :D

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It been show in 3d m8

i hope we get prem sport and prem sport extra : )

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

It was meant to be a joke

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Don't think I do. Who saw it and where?

I hope they are not identical!

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35343873
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35344275
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35344282
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No. Ok It was " almost " identical

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Those links don't work for me. I only have 55 pages in this thread.

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I have checked and they do work and there is 364 pages in this thread :confused:

This is what the person said.

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It is for people who have got double vision:)

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:D:D

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It depends what you have the page size set to in your profile options. I have it set to 100.

Anyway, I don't know what the channel is.

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That link gives no information about viewing figures on cable. Those barb figures are for all platforms. As for them being respectable, I suppose that's debatable.

My suggestion about E!, "unfounded" or otherwise (and we'll see what happens next year) remains my opinion.

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They get more than EuroSport ;)

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E! is a very popular channel amongst the females between 16 to 25 year olds due to their targeted programming. It's rare in the sense that for a female focused channel, it is a complete success. Living was originally a female targeted channel which became more unisex along the way.

There is no way Virgin will be dropping E! It's a great driver for Virgin to get female subscribers off M+ and onto either the L or XL package.

Anyway why are we discussing this here anyway? It's the "Coming Soon" thread not channels closing thread. Until someone can post proof anywhere on this forum that E! is leaving Virgin, anything we type about it including this very post is nothing but unsubstantiated pish posh and drivel.

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That surprises me.:shocked:

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They get more viewers than any of the MTV music channels and blast both SKY Arts and SKY Arts 2 out of the water. E! in HD would be more popular than some of the channels already broadcasting on the Virgin platform.

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I do not want to see E disappear but i personally would rather have some culture on Sky Arts then celeb based drivel,but i suppose the target audience just wants vacuous programming.! Horses for courses as they say.;)

Then again Arena on BBC2 has some excellent Arts based programming now and in the past i suppose that would go right over the head of an E audience.:D:D

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Its amazing how this celebrity type drivel is so engrained into the culture of a certain core of viewers nowadays.:(

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Fair enough.

I've just realised E! is part of the NBC Universal group (now owned by Comcast) so its not a little channel on its own. When VM signs a new "3 screens" deal with NBC, probably E! will be included in that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I do know Virgin did have Horror Channel on Virgin Channel 170 before moving it to Channel 149 the few years ago. So maybe forgot they have moved.:D

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Did anyone watch 3D Strictly Come Dancing on BBC HD? If so, was it any good? Does it show promise for more 3D on VM?

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That would be cruel. They'd have quadruple vision then! :(

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Yes an excellent production by the BBC even if the shows not upto much :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Well I think that any significant change that is "Coming Soon ..." is an on topic post here including but not limited to channels being dropped or renamed. As for speculative posts with no basis in fact ... I agree that multiple contradictory speculative responses with no basis in fact are pointless.

Personally I don't think that VM will drop E! because it is the only channel they have with an exclamation point in its name just as Westward Ho! is the only town in the UK with an exclamation point in its name! ;) That was a question in a Gold Run on Blockbusters last week. "What WH is ... ?"

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Posted in a new thread, but will also post here as it's "coming soon"! Well next year anyway........

Virgin Media signs BBC sports coverage deal

Virgin Media has struck a deal with the BBC to give viewers access to hundreds of hours of extra coverage of major sports events next year, including live video streams from the London 2012 Olympics, through its TiVo service.

The wide-ranging deal will give Virgin Media customers access to "enhanced" BBC TV services – the additional video streams and interactive content accessed via the red button – for a range of the corporation's news and sports coverage next year.

Significantly, Virgin Media customers will now have access to all 24 streams of coverage that the BBC is broadcasting of various Olympic events.

However, the deal also covers the "red button" content of events including Formula One, Wimbledon and Euro 2012.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...eal?CMP=twt_fd

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

That link has already been posted in the General Tivo discussion thread.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Not in this thread it hasn't!!

Also, this coming from the person that posts the same links over and over again!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Has anybody got any news of the Al Jazeera news channel possibly being added next year.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

As Virgin Media have added NDTV which is a pay channel then Virgin Media can surely add a free to view channel.

I think Al Jazeera will come next year.

I may be wrong.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

It would be nice to have a news perspective from someone different rather then the same old BBC and Sky news.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I am an fan of Russia Today I watch it sometimes when seeing what on Freeview.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

OK back on topic.

Some OT posts removed.

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Yes that would be nice along with a Chinese news channel as well.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Would people want Fox News ? I know i would not want Fox News.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

We have got Fox News right now - it called Sky News.:D

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LOL :D

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Yuk! Fox News is vile! :sick:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Yes most definitely and l for one miss the old ITV News channel when we had that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

:clap::clap:

I would also not watch Kay Burley in HD :sick:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

You could always... change the channel?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I for one would never watch Fox News like I refuse to watch Sky News.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Then you have the choice of BBC, CNN, Euronews and the new Indian news channel.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Yep the choice is there, BBC for me.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

Same here as well although it has its faults as well.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

I for one think Sky News is excellent and balanced , a point proven when Mr Murdoch came under fire on the channel. I'm afraid some on here just slate anything linked with Sky.

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l will criticise if l need to whether its Sky, Virgin or anybody else if there is a need to criticise.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
 

And you are entitled to , as am I ;)

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Agreed, it is the BBC News I don't like these days with all "their" analysis and opinions. Feels like big brother dictating to the audience at times. Not saying Sky is "neutral" but finding them more balanced than the BBC these days myself.

Time to get back on topic again for this thread?

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Probably due to the fact that most of the news reported concerns affairs across the pond ;) If you had ever been to the US you would know the majority of the US news channels tend to show very little news stories from anywhere else in the world.

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Agreed , I personally enjoy some of their shows such as press preview , Jeff Randall Live etc. I suppose its personal preference very similar to what paper you read , to get back on topic I feel VM offer a good selection of news channels , Al Jazeera would be a nice addition.

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Do you like reading The Sun and The Times :D