Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Freeview may get Travel Channel back if Really fold into Quest Red and TLC happen.

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Very informative! Thanks MB

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The whole point of BBC Worldwide, which was folded into BBC Studios, was to make money to add to the money the BBC gets from the Licence Fee, so it's doing the financing of the wider BBC, the BBC isn't funding it.

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According to BARB ratings Quest Red had a 0.48 share of total viewing in April 2019, TLC had 0.21 and Really had 0.64.

Of course TLC is a Pay channel so the money from that would offset the lower ratings to an extent.

DMAX, which replaced Travel Channel on Freeview in January (and went FTA on Freesat at the same time) had a 0.34 rating in April. DMAX had 0.03 in the last month before the change. Travel Channel had 0.32 rating in the month before the change and was 0.03 in April.

Given Really is higher rating than Quest Red I don't see them closing it. And Quest Red is higher rating than Travel Channel before it left Freeview, so why remove that? They aren't just going to do it because they are similar and Travel Channel being different would widen the genre choice, money will dictate that, and larger ratings probably mean the similar channels make more money for them.

Having said that I'd like Travel Channel to return to Freeview.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

In the Ofcom monthy update:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/update:

Omnidirectional has noticed that a new satellite/cable licence has been awarded for Made in Teeside, which is odd as the channels are no longer called 'Made' and only broadcast a single national service on satellite.

Is there a local channel on VM in Teeside?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Yes.

Virgin Media DO carry the following local Channels (as far as we know):

London Live,
Notts TV,
Latest TV,
Sheffield Live TV,
NVTV (Belfast),
Made in Bristol,
Cardiff TV,
Leeds TV,
Tyne and Wear TV,
Liverpool TV,
That's TV Norfolk,
Birmingham TV,
That's TV Cambridge,
That's TV Swansea Bay,
Teesside TV,
KMTV (Kent) and
That's TV Humber (Grimsby).

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Thanks MB, it seems odd then that a new licence has been awarded for the same service under it's old name!?

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You will also find that Discovery has also got an new licence for DMAX (UK 2)

Plus you link is not working - this one is: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/updates

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But not That's TV Scotland....

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Channel 159 was removed when STV 2 was axe last summer in Scotland.

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I'm guessing the STV2 contract with VM expired before That's Scotland launched and wasn't transferred to That's.

There was a period between STV2 closing, STV selling to That's and That's actually launching where all That's Scotland showed was a Coming Soon screen on Freeview.

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I forgot to add Virgin Media did remove STV2 an day early.

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Maybe they have revised the conditions under which the channel operates.

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@RichardCoulter

Over the past week We have found that Virgin Media has axe an "TS Streams" by one.

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Steady Media Boy you could get reported in your own thread - the amount of gaps in the frequency plan (and where they are!) aren't appropriate to the Coming Soon thread as I was told when I introduced this line of chat.

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