Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35720416)

But Virgin may end it early.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 35720363)

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In my area 20+ years ago when cable tv started.l...

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35720483)

Will we get place holders for skysports 5 on Tuesday?

Originally Posted by steveh (Post 35720381)

Cable operators also had a statutory requirement to provide a local television channel, but this was dropped at some point in the nineties around the time of the big mergers.

Bell Cablemedia in East London had a scrolling information service filled with out-of-date information then for one week a year they would put out some programmes just to fulfil the legal requirements.

Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 35720395)

I can remember when I was young we had Redifusion cable tv and they would flash any news from the area which needed the local people to know,i.e a flood warning.

Originally Posted by Helix (Post 35720417)

I remember on CableTel and NTL Analogue, they used to cut away from the normal adverts on channels like Nickelodeon and showed really low budget local adverts. I don't know how they were allowed to do it really as I would have thought the normal advertisers on these channels would get annoyed unless they only paid for their adverts to be shown on Sky.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35720426)

Why do you say that?

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35720491)

I never knew that! You learn something everyday :D



Was this in vision or audiably? I have heard of cable companies in the past making eg flood warning announcements on top of the TV audio.

Would they do this today? Do they still have the technical capability to do so after years of consolidation?



Yes, I often wondered that too. Did they only do this on channels that they owned? Didn't Telewest end up with the formerly United Artists owned channels? Obviously these channels ended up being owned by VM who sold them off to Sky.



ISTR that previous freeview periods on VM have either not happened or have started and/or ended early. The reasons given at the time were that amending the encryption was much more problematic for cable than satellite.

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35720490)

link http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1996100
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Delay in getting Tru TV, because of negotiations getting extra CNN channels.
.............. Like CNN America and CNN HD

Would be nice to think it will happen, but no idea if true anybody here heard anything?

Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35720517)

Don't we already get CNN?

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35720519)

We have CNN euro not CNN America also its not HD

Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35720520)

Ah good I like the sound of that. Now if we can complete the overdramatic American news with the hilarious Fox News I'm sorted

Maybe then the next fox contract comes up...

Originally Posted by Aguero9320 (Post 35720530)

Hahaha! FOX News: interesting: let me tell you.

Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35720519)

We have CNN euro not CNN America also its not HD

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35720537)

Been speaking to a couple of sources, all have said CNNHD or other CNN channels have absolutely nothing at all to do with TRUtv not launching on Virgin.
The word "money" is a better thought.