Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Premier Sports still coming through for me when I key in 551

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With this flurry of new channels, and potential loss of UKTV channels, it would be good if Virgin Media could fill in some of the gaps where TV channels are available in Ireland but not the UK:

HISTORY HD
Crime+Investigation HD
Disney Channel HD
MTV Classic

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Premier Sports will be free to Virgin customers for 8 weeks.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Thanks for confirming that Den:tu:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

What he said, good news :)

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I was going to say where this would leave customers, contract wise? A lot of fuming customers, myself included. It would be a very damaging blow to both parties but particularly to Virgin in terms of losing customers and attracting new ones!

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Not only that, but last year's price rise was made public on 1 August (here). I'd imagine Virgin would prefer to resolve this with UKTV fairly quickly, assuming they are about to start telling customers that their bills will be going up again.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

Well, I hope Virgin keep their nerve. The existing UKTV deal is most unsatisfactory, and it's only disputes such as these that ultimately resolve them.

I feel for people who love to watch these channels, although I would point out that the majority of their material consists of repeats. Personally, I won't miss them.

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Virgin have provided replacement channels which do not rely on repeated material.

People used to complain about repeats, but now they are happy to pay to see them!

How perverse!

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I struggle to find many things worth watching on the UKTV shows with the exception of the odd classic on Gold.

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It would be a cull of 24 channels in total taking into account +1 and HD. Surely a last minute deal will be agreed? If not it'll be the biggest amount of channels cut in one go in British broadcast history. Even more significant than the SKY basic channels leaving
11 years ago. After all the UKTV channels are the most watched outwith the classic "terrestrial channels".

My parents will be livid. Pretty sure they'll be on the phone to Virgin demanding a discount on Monday. I'm sure they won't be the only ones.

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There are many of the older vintage who like watching these channels though MM.

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Yes, that is the dilemma. Surely, though, we shouldn't have to pay to watch all this repeated material. It is a disgrace, really.

UKTV channels should be consigned to Freeview. No wonder people are turning to Netflix and Amazon for their TV fix. At least they provide good value for money. They are churning out more original dramas than all the terrestrial and pay tv channels put together!

Pay tv channels will surely be doomed sooner rather than later if they cannot do better than this. And sadly, I concluded a while ago that they cannot.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
 

"In a press release, UKTV confirmed it was offering Virgin access to Gold HD and an increased range of on-demand content.

As it stands, UKTV's 10 channels will be removed over the weekend, with carriage ending at midnight 21st July 2018."

https://www.a516digital.com/2018/07/...t-to-lose.html

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And yet were they not the ones who used to complain about all the summer repeats on the BBC.

Now they are happy to pay to watch them!

Funny old world...:confused:

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Gold HD really old shows in some sort of letterbox format. Well the thing is i see it from both sides but losing all these channels in one go is massive