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Possibly because there are some French, Asian and African people living in the UK who may appreciate those channels. Just a thought like.

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Probably because the French channel, the Asian channels etc don't cost what Premier Sports or Sky Atlantic would cost to carry. If VM could get you Sky Atlantic, they would. It'd probably increase the price of your package though.

Good to see you consider anything that's not aimed at you is stupid. Or is it just because they're for "foreigners"?

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And maybe Atlantic and Premier Sports are expensive and the others aren't. Wouldn't have thought it was so difficult to work out Arthur.

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There are also some Scots/Irish and Welsh people here in the UK, but we dont see those channels do we.

I live near Twickenham and would love to see some Scottish channels, as my wife is comes from Glasgow, we cannot see STV, but l can see FRENCH TV. See my point.

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You do realise STV at this point is basically just ITV with different news and no English football.

If you want nationwide Scottish TV watch BBC Alba.

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That's one for you to take up with ITV & STV, they have regional advertising and don't want other ITV Network regions available. There's nothing that VM can do about that.

TV5Monde is TV5 World, it's not a French TV channels as such, more a channel carrying programmes for French speaking citizens living outside France, Belgium, Switzerland etc.

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What l am trying to say is that l believe that IF there are these channels out there, such as l can obtain channels outside London, on Freesat by adding in the signal that carried say CHANNEL ISLAND TV, So l cannot understand why VM cannot have this channel basis. I know it may sound stupid, but when l go to Great Yarmouth each year and wanted to watched what was happening in London, l couldn't as Norfolk has Anglia TV, and you can only get that on Sky NOT VM.

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Is S4C not a Welsh channel which broadcasts with Welsh as the primary language? Or would be that classed as foreign to you? As for SA VM are still trying to get a deal which allow everyone the channel. Secondly, whilst I do not watch a lot of The Africa Channel etc, I enjoy being able to have the option to watch some of the varied and enlightening content they offer. It is odd though, that you were willing to join Sky which also have the same channels you begrudge VM attaining, plus many other "foreign"/"pointless" channels. :erm::confused:

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So you are fed up when you can't see what is going on in London, but you begrudge people from countries having access to stations which will allow them to keep up-to-date with news and/or programs from their homelands? Seems rather unfair to me.

Why would you want Channel Island TV? Surely that is equally as rubbish as the Africa Channel.

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BBC1 Scotland is available on channel 862 if that's any use.

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If you go again, BBC1 London is available on channel 861 and ITV London on 853.

I agree that, now we have the extra capacity, that some more regional variations would be useful.

Alas, I doubt we will see any more ITV additions because of the desire to target advertising. ITV try to discourage viewers from watching a different region to the one intended for their area by not putting them on the Sky EPG. As they have stopped encrypting their satellite broadcasts, however, viewers can get round this by adding it to "other channels". I believe that they are available on Freesat by not being truthful about the correct postcode.

We only get ITV London and another selected region depending on the area you are in because of the need for Audio descripton and HD feeds.

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Simple, it's up to the ITV Network to decide who gets what and they want the audience to get the region they where are selling advertising time.

This isn't rocket science, the other regions aren't easily available on satellite either. Other ITV regions aren't given channel numbers in the Sky EPG but can be received as "other channels" by anyone with sufficient technical knowledge. Similarly, they don't have channel numbers in the freesat EPG.

It's not going to happen.

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STV's agreements for broadcasting with ITV simply do not allow Virgin Media to have STV in England.

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We are a multi-cultural society and the channel choice on VM reflects this

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In Wales ITV HD carries the news from ITV Central.

However ITV conditions of contract with VM is that they will only carry the feeds for the regions they serve. So STV won't be shown in London etc etc.

With the dawn of IP TV this may change.

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STV ain't a big loss, Scottish television is very very poor.

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Did you ever have a part in that Scottish of series Take the High Road Henke?.;):D