Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches and other important events across all platforms of Virgin TV network.

NOTE: I do not work for Virgin Media so all the information on this list is subject to change.

MEDIA BOY NEED YOU: Are you an Ex-ntl or Ex-CW viewer?

Can you post on this thread when Virgin Media add BBC Radio 4 LW (Channel 911 to your box and also do tell if any Local BBC Radio channels has appeared as well.

Also any Ex-Telewest viewers can you post on this thread when Virgin Media has moved your local BBC Radio Channel to Channel 937.

This list was last updated by Media Boy on the 14th of December 2009.

NOTE: Next update will be on January 4th 2010 on ''Coming soon to Virgin TV (2010)''.

MEDIA BOY WISH EVERYONE AN MARRY CHRISTMAS AND AN HAPPY NEW YEAR.

BOLD = New

Colours on my list are as followed:

Media Boy = New Info just added.
Media Boy = Virgin Media News.
Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: = It an Media Boy EXCLUSIVE and you can only see it on my Blogs or on this thread.
Media Boy = Other info, Live Football on Virgin TV news and other Media news.

=== Channels having Freeviews on Virgin TV right now ===
Magic is available for free to all L customers on Virgin Channel 340 until January 8th.
True Movies is available for free to all customers on Virgin Channel 428 until January 9th.

=== Coming up on Virgin's Digital TV ===

=== Imminent ===
Virgin Media is adding BBC Radio 4 LW (Channel 911) and BBC Radio London (Channel 937) to all Ex-CW viewers in London.
Virgin Media is starting an ''TV Card Swap'' so at the end of the project there will be no more Ex-Telewest, Ex-ntl or Ex-CW areas and we will all have the same channel lineup.

=== December ===
14th. Final update of the year on post one will happen today.

=== January 2010 ===
1st. Christmas 24 will be rebranded as Movies 24 on Virgin Channel 424.
4th. Sky Movies to rebrand Sky Movies Christmas Channel as Sky Movies Screen 2 on Virgin Channel 412.
4th. Media Boy launches ''Coming soon to Virgin TV (2010)'' today.
6th. Sky Sports Xtra will be rebranded as Sky Sports 4 on Virgin Channel 516.

=== February 2010 ===
1st. Virgin Media will today Switch Off Analogue Cable today in the following areas: Southampton.

=== March 2010 ===
No News...

=== Before April 2010 ===
Virgin Media will cease all analogue television transmissions.

=== April 2010 ===
No News...

=== May 2010 ===
No News...

=== June 2010 ===
No News...

=== Before July 2010 ===
Virgin Media says they hope to have 20-30 HD channels - see ''Latest news on HD Channels'' for full list of channels they may add.

=== July 2010 ===
No News...

=== August 2010 ===
MOTD2 will launch on BBCi Player.

=== September 2010 ===
No News...

=== October 2010 ===
No News...

=== November 2010 ===
No News...

=== December 2010 ===
No News...

=== Before 2011 ===
-Sci Fi will be rebranded as Syfy Universal on Virgin Channel 135.
-Diva TV & Diva +1 are set to be rebranded as Diva Universal & Diva Universal + 1 on Virgin Channels 164 & 165.
-KidsCo. may launch on Virgin Media.
-Virgin Media will introduce TiVo co-branded set-top boxes.


=== Unknown dates ===
-Zone Horror are to closed on Virgin Channel 149.
-An new CBS branded channel to launch on Virgin Channel 149.
-Virgin Media are to move some channels about on their EPG Channel lineup.
-Virgin Media are rumoured to be in talks with ITV with an view of carrying ITV1 HD and maybe even ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4's +1 hour channels.
-Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: An executive of Sony UK has told me that Sony are in talks with Virgin about carrying more Asian TV channels on their platform to build the View Asia package but it depends on space available on Virgin. ''ViewAsia pack'' is price at £17.99 per month.
-Digital Spy says Wedding TV and Investigation Discovery will launch on Virgin TV.
-Virgin Media will launch BBC News Multiscreen in Ex-ntl areas.
-Men & Motors may close on Virgin TV to make may for launch of ITV1 +1 (Maybe on Virgin Channel 113) - Only in England and Wales.
-An Virgin Media worker has confirm on Twitter that Virgin are in talks with Sky with an view of the ''Red Button'' being added to Sky Sports. (June 4th)
-BBC ALBA (Deal has been signed).
-Virgin Media will introduce an enhanced TV interface.
-Virgin Media will introduce an IP-based delivery platform to replace its existing digital cable television service.
-HISTORY + 1 - to be added to Ex-Telewest.
-The BBC TV and Radio Channels that are only in some areas of Virgin TV to be added to all areas of Virgin Media.
-Demand Five.
-Channel 4's ''4oD'' will offer HD content.
-ITV Net Player will offer HD content.
-Geo TV and Virgin Media are expecting to start negotiations over Geo's channels joining Virgin TV.

=== Latest news on HD Channels on Virgin TV ===
-Virgin Media are in talks with ITV with an of carrying ITV1 HD.
-Virgin Media say they hope to have 20-30 HD channels on air by July 2010 - Virgin rumoured to be looking to add Crime and Investgation HD, Discovery HD, History HD, E4 HD, Luxe HD, Bio HD, National Geo Wild HD, ITV HD, Rush HD, Eurosport HD, Five HD, Good Food HD, Sundance HD, SciFI HD, Living 2 HD, Sky 1 HD, Sky Arts 1 HD, Sky Arts 2 HD, Sky Real lives HD, Sky Sports 1 HD, Sky Sports 2 HD, Sky Sports 3 HD, Sky Movies HD.
Note: If say Discovery HD appear on Virgin TV that does not mean that all the missing SD Channels will not appear as well as Virgin Media are signing two deal with that broadcast - one for SD Channels and an other for HD Channels.

=== Rumoured/Hope/No news in months ===
-Virgin Media are rumoured to be set sell all of their ''Virgin Media Television'' as well as 50% of ''UKTV'' channels off to other Broadcasters.
-In summer of 2008 The chief executive of STV Group, outlined plans for a "Scottish Gold" TV channel, in partnership with the BBC.
-Five are also in the advanced stages of plans to roll out its Kids show Milkshake making it into an TV Channel.
-Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: UKTV has told me that Eden +1 and Yesterday +1 will relaunch on Virgin TV ''later in the year''.
-Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: AETN UK are in active discussions with Virgin Media in relation to both Military History and History HD joining the network.
-Virgin Media are rumoured to be in talks with the following broadcaster: Five (For Five on Demand).

=== What happened on Virgin Media this month ===
Channels rebranded/Move EPG:
Dec. 1st. Sky Movies Screen 2 has been rebranded Sky Movies Christmas on Virgin Channel 412.
Dec. 4th. Absolute Xtreme has been rebranded Absolute 80s on Virgin Channel 951.

New Channels added:
No new channel has been added on Virgin Media so far this month...

Channels Stop broadcasting/Been removed on Virgin TV:
Dec. 1st. Fun Kids has been removed by Virgin from Virgin Channel 926.

=== New channels that are now testing on some Virgin Media boxes. ===
Channels that are testing ARE Currently showing:
Last update: 9th of December 2009.

Name - Testing with
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One - No broadcast^
BBC One Scotland - No broadcast^
BBC One Wales - No broadcast^
BBC One N Ireland - No broadcast^
BBC One Cambs - No broadcast^
BBC One East Mids - No broadcast^
BBC One Yorks & Lin - No broadcast^
BBC Two N Ireland - No broadcast^
BBC Two Scotland - No broadcast^
BBC Two Wales - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 + 1 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 + 1 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 + 1 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 + 1 - No broadcast^
Channel 4 + 1 - No broadcast^
FIVE^
FIVE Audio description^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Anglia - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Anglia - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Central - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 London - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Meridian - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Meridian - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 West - No Broadcast^
ITV 1 Yorkshire - No Broadcast^
RTE One (With EPG) - No Broadcast^
RTE Two (With EPG) - No Broadcast^
S4C (With EPG) - No Broadcast^
S4C Audio - Broadcasting (S4C)^
S4C2 (With EPG) - No Broadcast^
Ulster TV (With EPG) - No Broadcast^

*Some of the BBC One channels now have BBC1 audio but no picture

NOTE: All have no EPG right now unless added (With EPG), ^ = Testing in Ex-Cable & Wireless areas, ^^ = Testing in Ex-ntl areas & ^^^ = Testing in Ex-Telewest areas.

=== Channels THAT still to appear on both platforms ===
=== Channels that still to appear in Ex-Telewest areas ===
List was last updated on December 2nd 2009.

NO. Channel Name
235. HISTORY +1
811. ZING
812. Zee Punjabi
833. Phoenix CNE
861. BBC One England
862. BBC One Scotland
863. BBC One Northern Ireland
864. BBC One Wales
865. BBC Two England
928. Radio: Magic 105.4
930. Radio: BBC Radio Scotland
931. Radio: BBC Radio Wales
932. Radio: BBC Radio Ulster
934. Radio: BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
936. Radio: BBC Radio Cymru
963. Radio: Kiss 100

=== Channels THAT still to appear in Ex-ntl areas ===
List was last updated on November 30th 2009.

NO. Channel Name
911. Radio: BBC Radio 4 LW
917. Radio: RTE Radio
920. Radio: WRN Europe

=== Channels THAT still to appear in Ex-Cable & Wireless areas ===
List was last updated on December 8th 2009.

NO. Channel Name
911. Radio: BBC Radio 4 LW (Has launch in some areas of London.)
917. Radio: RTE Radio
920. Radio: WRN Europe

=== Media Boy Thinks: ===
Virgin will keep the following Channels:
All the BBC TV and Radio Channels
Kiss Radio
Magic Radio
HISTORY +1
ZEE channels

====== Media Boy Information =====
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=== Media Boy Blogs & Extra TV info: ===
See My Virgin TV Blog here - http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com/
See latest on Virgin TV's Analogue switch off - http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...-schedule.html
See My Ideal Virgin TV lineup here - http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...el-lineup.html
See My DAB Radio News Blog here - http://dabnews.blogspot.com/
See My Radio News Blog here - http://localradionews.blogspot.com/
See My On Demand Blog here - http://ondemandnews.blogspot.com/
See My Virgin Media News Blog here - http://virginmedianews.blogspot.com/
See My Football on Virgin TV Blog here - http://footballonvirgintv.blogspot.com/
See Setanta Sports UK fall out News here - http://setantasportsuknews.blogspot.com/
See Virgin Media on ''twitter'' here - http://twitter.com/virginmedia
See latest news about Virgin on Demand via ''twitter'' here - http://twitter.com/vmondemand

=== Ask Media Boy ===
Q: WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION ABOUT VIRGIN MEDIA FROM?
A: I get all my info from Virgin Media workers (NOTE: I called them ''An Insider''), Virgin Media viewers, my blogs and Web Sites (NOTE: When I used web sites I will post an link to that web site).

Q: I HAVE GOT NEWS BUT I WORK FOR VIRGIN MEDIA AND I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO SEE MY USER NAME?
A: All you need to do is pm me right now and tell me what Virgin Media area you are from* and I will post your news on ''Coming soon to Virgin TV'' for you.

* = I also need to know you local cable network - was you in an Ex-Telewest, Ex-ntl or Ex-Cable & Wireless area before Virgin Media appeared.

Q: WHY AM I NOT GETTING ''CHANNEL Z'' FOR?
A: Some channels are only in some areas - Magic Radio is only in Ex-ntl and Ex-Cable & Wireless areas but Ex-Telewest area have got RTE Radio.

Q: WHY HAS VIRGIN MEDIA PULLED SOME LOCAL RADIO OFF EX-TELEWEST FOR?
A: The BBC Radio stations for England, Wales, Scotland and NI will replace them (But I do not know when that will be) but some of your local Radio Channels may move to Virgin Channel 937 - 950. They are already broadcasting in non Ex-Telewest areas between Virgin TV Channels 930 to 936. This is part of the process of aligning the Channels so that everyone can have the same Channels lineup.

==== Deals with broadcasters ===
When deals with broadcasters run out Virgin Media need to sign new one to keep that Channel on Virgin TV.

Here is an list of channel that Virgin may get when they old deal runs out with that broadcaster:

NOTE: Channels will be on this list until they launch on Virgin Media. To start broadcasting soon = That channel has still to start broadcasting on Sky or Freeview.

=== Own by AETN UK ===
Bio HD
Crime & Investigation Network HD
Crime & Investigation Network +1
HISTORY HD
Military History

=== Own by ABC Television Group ===
Disney Cinemagic HD
Disney Cinemagic + 1
Playhouse Disney +

=== Own by ARY Group ===
ARY News
QTV ARY

=== Own by BBC ( Everyone in the UK) ===
BBC ALBA (Deal has been signed.)

=== Own by BSkyB ===
Sky1 HD
Sky2 HD (Soon to start broadcasting.)
Sky Arts 1 HD
Sky Arts 2 HD
Sky Movies Action/Thriller HD
Sky Movies Comedy HD
Sky Movies Drama HD
Sky Movies Family HD
Sky Movies Indie HD
Sky Movies Modern Greats HD
Sky Movies Premiere HD
Sky Movies Sci-Fi Horror HD
Sky Movies Screen 1 HD
Sky Movies Screen 2 HD
Sky News HD (To start broadcasting in Spring 2010 on Sky.)
Sky Real Lives HD
Sky Real Lives + 1
Sky Sports HD 1
Sky Sports HD 2
Sky Sports HD 3

=== Own by CBS International and Chello Zone ===
CBS Action
CBS Drama
CBS Reality + 1
CBS 1 (Working name only - real channel name still to be confrim.)
CBS 2 (Working name only - real channel name still to be confrim.)

=== Own by Channel 4 Television Corporation ===
E4 HD
More 4 + 1

=== Own by Channel 5 Broadcasting ===
FIVE HD (To start broadcasting on Freeview in 2010.)
FIVER + 1
FIVE USA + 1

=== Own by Chello Zone ===
Zone Horror + 1

NOTE: All ''Zone'' branded channels owned by Chello Zone is to closedown by end of this year.

=== Own by CSC Media Group ===
Bliss
Chart Show TV
Flaunt
Flava
Kix!
NME TV
Pop Girl
Pop Girl +1
Scuzz
The Vault
Tiny Pop + 1
True Enterainment
True Movies 2

=== Own by Discovery Networks Europe ===
Discovery HD
Discovery Home & Health + 1
Discovery Knowledge + 1
Discovery Science + 1
DMAX + 1
DMAX + 2
Investigation Discovery [Digital Spy's ''Coming Soon list'' says this channel is set to launch before 2010 on Virgin TV.]
Quest
Quest + 1

=== Own by Fox International Channels ===
FX + 1

=== Own by GMG Radio ===
Real Radio
Rock Radio

=== Own by Independent Media Corporation ===
AAG
GEO News
GEO UK

=== Own by ITV Digital Channels Ltd ===
ITV1 HD
ITV1 +1 (Soon to start broadcasting in England and Wales areas only.)
ITV2 + 1
ITV3 + 1
ITV4 + 1

=== Own by NBC Universal Global Networks ===
13th Street (May soon start broadcast in UK and Ireland).
Sci Fi HD (Soon to be Syfy Universal HD.)
Sci Fi + 1 (Soon to be Syfy Universal +1.)
Universal Channel (May soon start broadcast in UK and Ireland).

=== Own by NBC Universal, Corus Entertainment, Cookie Jar Group ===
Kids Co (Soon to start broadcasting - rumoured to be set to launch in UK before July 2010.)

=== Own by NGC-UK Partnership ===
Nat Wild HD

=== Own by Rainbow Media ===
Rush HD
Sundance Channel HD

=== Own by Scripps Networks Interactive (Run by Chello Zone) ===
Food Network
Food Network + 1

=== Own by Sony ===
NOTE: The following channels will become part of the ''ViewAsia'' package if Sony can sign an new deal Virgin Media:
ARY Digital^
B4U Movies^
MAX^
SAB
Sahara One
SET Asia^

^ = On Virgin Media right now.


=== Own by STAR TV ===
STAR Gold
STAR One

=== Own by TF1 Group ===
Eurosport HD

=== Own by Turner Broadcasting System Europe ===
Cartoonito
TCM 2

=== Own by Twenty Four 7 Ltd. ===
Luxe TV
Luxe TV HD

=== Own by UKTV ===
Eden + 1
Good Food HD (Soon to start broadcasting - Virgin Media are in talks with BBC Worldwide about starting this channel up.)
YeSTERDAY + 1

=== Own by Viacom ===
BET
BET + 1
Comedy Central Extra + 1
NickToons Replay

=== NON Virgin Media news: ===
For all the latest news on Non-Virgin Media news go to '''Coming soon to Digital TV''.
See my Sky and Freesat Blog at: http://mediaboydigitaltvnews.blogspot.com/
See my Freeview News Blog here - http://freeviewuknews.blogspot.com/

Or: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/dso.shtml

=== Live Football on Virgin TV this week ===
For this weeks games go to my Blog at: http://footballonvirgintv.blogspot.com/

=== Media Boy notes ===
-If anything happen over the Holidays I know about it and the info will be on the January 4rh update.

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So hi..any news on the hd channels..:) happy new thread..lol.:D

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All of the web site I get my info from is having they holiday right now so I do not have any new news until Monday. When I get any news I will post it here.

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any news on setanta sports on demand

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not bothered about setanta on demand, they repeat their stuff countless times already, all i want is those 4 HD channels! Hope some insiders can leak the info to us soon, glad we have a new thread for 2009, other thread was rather large.

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if we had Setanta Sport on Demand then those of us who don't get this channel for free could buy a one off event say a football or boxing match

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true, but unless the made the PPV's very cheap i.e £5 or under then it probably wouldnt be worth paying for that compared to the monthly fee. Sky charge crazy prices for PPV £15.95 ish is crazy for a boxing match that will likely be boring, WWE is more acceptable as you know you are getting 2.5hrs or so of wrestling but for boxing anything over £5 is too much. But if they did this they would lose LOADS of subscribers who buy it to watch their football team play 4 matches a season or so on setanta.

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Been at my sister's over the festive season,watching a lot of Sky HD,coming home is like going back in time.MORE HD PLEEEAAAASSSSSEEEEE!!!!

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anyone know what time media boy usually posts his update?

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No sign of ESPN Classic on Virgin then?? :o(

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May appear when Disney deal with Virgin Media runs out (Late 2009?)

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No point holding my breath for when NASN rebrands to ESPN in February then??

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As far as I know NASN is part of the Setanta deal sign in Summer 2007.

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Disney has took over Jetix

Disney has struck a deal to move to full ownership of children's TV broadcaster Jetix Europe.

Previously, Disney owned 74% of Jetix Europe. Following last month deal, for an undisclosed sum, it will own 96% of the company.

The transaction was completed before the end of 2008. Disney said it intends to obtain ownership of 100% of the shares in Jetix Europe.

Disney acquired its original interest in Jetix Europe (formerly Fox Kids Europe), which reached 24 million subscribers, when it purchased Fox Family Worldwide from News Corp in 2001.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/8678...rope-takeover/

Info from Media Week.

Media Boy: I think Disney will rename Jetix again this time to Disney XD - An new channel that is set to launch in the US next month.

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Many thanks TV Boy for all your info about VM in 2008 and here's to you continuing your fine work in 2009.

I don't think I've seen this mentioned for a while so I thought I'd ask if there is any information as to whether BBC News multiscreen is ever likely to appear in ex NTL areas (I assume it is still available for those in fromer Telewest areas).

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i'd love to see Eurosport HD it's not Sky owned so I would have thought it would be easier to get on the network.

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You mention that Nuts tv is closed on Freeview channel 42, would it be coming to VM then or not

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Virgin hope to have up to Five HD Channels online by March '09.

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unlikely DC_FC79, its probably gone bust. Was a bad channel. I'd love to see eurosport HD too as the normal channel looks awful, widescreen and fairly decent hd quality would make it far more watchable, shame it wasnt on virgin for the olympics last year:(

mediaboy, do you mean 5 extra channels in addition to it's current BBCHD and OnDemand channel? As they only announced that 4 new channels were coming within 3 months a few weeks ago.

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No Nuts TV is being axe from Digital TV. It will only broadcast via the Nuts web site.

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They will be like BBC HD. The news from last month says that Virgin Broadcast TWO HD Channels on they network.

I think they will be:

ITV HD - Rumoured on DS Forums as testing right now.
Channel 4 HD - Virgin got the rights to broadcast this channel.
Plus Two or Three other HD channels - I have no ideal of the channels names.

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Thanks for the info Media Boy.

As usual, keep up the good work.

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Virgin Media has today added two things to their ''Total Channels'' on their Ex-Telewest network but I cant see any thing new.

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Have Virgin any plans to add ITV to catch up tv and VOD etc?
Thanks.

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I have seen no news on ITV Player coming any time soon to Virgin.

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i see these two are more in the adult section , wish they whould a more
general channels, not some just for a small section of customers

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I just find them at 10am - Well they was the only late night channels not to have an EPG Channel.

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There seems to be a number of extra pay as you go porn channels added. ex ntl Cardiff. I have hidden them !

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ITV On Demand is finally coming - http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...cle&ID=1241606

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I can also confirm there is no news of ITV coming to Virgin, any time soon.

;)

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great news. No info on whether the adverts will be cut out but as we can fast forward through them anyway I guess they would be

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Well i guess this makes it a virtual certainty that ITVHD will be 1 of the 4 HD channels coming within the next 3 months. I hope they dont count ITV On Demand as 1 of the HD channels though!

Come on branson, spill the beans on the 4 channels!

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any news on five on demand coming 2 virgin media

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In theory it could happen, I say this as Five signed a deal with BT vision not so long ago for catch-up. Unfortunately a direct comparison probably isn't really there as BT Vision charge for it.

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New Channel coming next Month.

Living2 +1 will launch on the 5th of February 2009 on Virgin and Sky.

Info from agbnielsen

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I know this will sound rather sad but is there any plans for Pulse TV to join Virgin Media anytime soon? The reason I ask is Pulse will have RQW Wrestling on from February and I used to watch it on The Wrestling Channel on Sky before it was bought by the now dead Fight Network.

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They might...there isn't enough ITV HD content to warrant a full blown channel. Even on freesat, ITV don't have a proper HD channel. There is the possiblity also that VM may use the same system as on freesat to access ITV HD, ie by pressing the red button. A hidden "channel" is currently testing which would facilitate this. Although I'm sure it would be available through the menus too.

VM announced last year that they intend to rebrand all/some of their channels along with the UKTV ones. Once all the UKTV channels have been done, I'd expect VM's own channels to be next. This channel launching just guarantees a position on the EPG for the "new" channel.

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VM may be about to implement new security measures on their tv platform. Two hidden "channels" have appeared in the hidden engineering menus called:

Ch 510 - Security Fraud Message
Ch 808 - Yon have non-standard equipment

This may be a prelude to VM checking for dodgy stbs on their network and/or upgrading their conditional access system.

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Not sad at all, mate. Many of us around here and on DS.co.uk were uneasy about TNA Wrestling being on TWC, and Virgin/ntl:Telewest not carrying it... and then it went to Bravo2, which the ntl: side of the company didnt carry for a month or so.

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Even better news, if you ask me.

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Come on, man. They just got ITV... that was hard enough.

TBH, there isnt much on Five they could put on. Its full of the odd diamond in the rough, but there is a lot of rough on Five.

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do we know when the ITV Player and HD will be with us?

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no one has said the hd channel will be with us just presumed

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Sorry - interpreted 'A selection of ITV’s High Definition (HD) programming will also be available on demand, adding to Virgin Media’s growing and popular list of HD content as part of the UK’s leading TV on demand service.' to mean we would get the full (although ITV HD not on all the time) service.

[source Virgin press release]

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The ITV and Virgin Media deal signed today we may get:

ITV2 +1
ITV3 +1
ITV4 +1
ITV HD via the red button.

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Ah, now that is interesting Media boy. Cool.

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A glaring absence of dates in the announcement. It could be months away...

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Absolutely. But when has vod stuff happened immediately? There was a great fanfare when iPlayer launched on cable, in reality it took them months to stagger up the content.

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I don't think so....Weeks at most.

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Contrary to popular belief, VM tend to announce things when they happen. In an unpredictable business, it makes good sense to only announce them when they are ready to go. So I'd expect the ITV content to start appearing very shortly.

VOD was first announced on the day it launched.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...800&highlight=

Same with iPlayer.
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...610&highlight=

Out of necessity, large amounts of VOD content can't instantly appear. It needs to be propagated over the network to the 55 server farms.

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My point with iPlayer was that there was a great fanfare associated with it. On day 1, the content didn't really increase, at all, it was the UI there. It really did take months for the content to grow to the good standard it is now.

I agree in this case it was probably sensible keeping quiet as if those media reports are anything to go buy virgin had a year's difficult haggling with ITV, so a good job all round.

The only thing that suggests to me that ITV vod might appear is the strange disappearance of large amounts of HD vod at more or less the same time as this announcement...

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55 :D what sort size capicty for storage they got? it must be into 100tb's

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It makes you think doesn't it, I reckon at a guess it would be a lot more than 100's tbs I'd say well into the 1,000's of tbs. :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

nah, 320gb max, they will all be low bitrate divx :PP

Wonder what the quality of ITV player will be as their 1 on the website uses an hurrendous bitrate its completely unwatchable, iplayer's video is fairly decent, not great but watchable, hope itv player doesnt give the same awful quality to virgin boxes.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

UKTV Food, UKTV Style and UKTV Gardens will be rebrand anythime from April to June 2009:

http://uktv.co.uk/press/item/aid/610549

Info from UKTV.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Oh Great...MORE +1's!!!:rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

you have no concept of video encoding them even if it was low bitrate which i snt, they sitll need at least 10tb for all the stuff they have, to have it all fit on 320gb then need to have the file sizes about 1mb each and i dnt think that is the size and the video would be unwatchable

btw it encoded in h264

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

andrewcrawford, i was joking hence the ":PP" at the end of the sentence.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

is there a date when the itv player is coming to virgin, ? and whould it work the as the bbc by the red button on itv.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

apogolises then its because your used 2 p it never came up as graphics so i just missed it

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

any news on Discovery Quest on virgin media

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This weeks list update is now online:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34709089-post1.html

---------- Post added at 13:56 ---------- Previous post was at 13:19 ----------

Non-Virgin Media News:

Nuts TV is to closed this Wednesday night at 3am.

Info from my FreeSat from Sky Box.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Any News or rumours about Animal Planet HD mediaboy?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Here is the only thing I have on Animal Planet HD.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...5&postcount=66

Info from Digital Spy Forums.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

You state that Virgin Media will scrap Analogue completely by 2010, this isnt possible and will take much longer if it is to keep serving Westminster,Milton Keynes and parts of Southampton.

The analogue network in Westminster and Milton Keynes is proving very difficult to upgrade and will be a lengthy process. So your looking at 2015 to 2020 unless it closes down the franchises.

Also in my area ex-telewest bordering westminster, there are alot of customers still using Analogue,Digital has been available since 2001 in this area but they dont want to upgrade!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

don't forget there is the governement digital switch over project, not sure what the end date is for that but I thought it was 2012, could be wrong. Once that has finished there won't be an analogue signal for VM to provide.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The analogue only areas will be dropped from what i remember reading. the areas where analogue is and digitial is available people will b given the choice upgrade or loose your tv signal since they will swithc it off anyway.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Five on Demand on Virgin Media update:

Five claim that Virgin Media will launch their Five on Demand service this year.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...9#post30091839

Info from DS Forum.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

:tu: hope that's true. Nice one virgin media.

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The launch of Investigation Discovery will not be broadcasted on Virgin TV: http://video.discoverychannel.co.uk/...ctid6681216001

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

any news on Quest

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Nope.

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A lot of the channels SKY have that VM don't are so obscure that I wouldn't miss them, but channels from the Discovery network, like this new "Investigation" channel should be picked up by VM as a priority.
Anyhoo, missing out on new channels at VM is becoming way too regular, and more than a little irritating.:td:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Non-Virgin News: Two new channels to join Freeview this month.

Dave +1 will launch next Thursday on Freeview channel 25 broadcast from 8am - 4am.
With Russia Today will launch as an part-time channel.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/terrestrial/news/

Info from Digital Spy.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Channels for Cable [and Sky on cable ?] are changing names and Cable numbers so fast that I have given up keeping up. Where then can I find the latest listing that I can understand - please.

HaroldT

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I dont understand why Discovery doesnt work with Virgin Media,Smallworld,Wight Cable and Tiscali more closely than Sky, Fox/sky is a large broadcasting competitor of Discovery.

Furthermore, has anyone noticed? Virgin 1 on freeview starts at 6pm! They must be loosing advertising revenue over this! Why not broadcast it 24 hours!

And with regards to Analogue switchoff, there is a big problem in Westminster,Most properties you are not allowed to have outdoor Aerials and satellite dishes, therefore if the westminster franchise was to close, people are going to have no TV!

Even with Tiscali TV or BT Vision, you still need an aerial!

BT wont like it if Virgin Media closes down the franchise as they will loose there tennant!

What if BT takes over the customer base again and upgrades the network themselves, however, they will have to stop selling BT Vision products in these areas for competition reasons.

And is not possible to rebroadcast Digital channels down Analogue signals???

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

When Virgin Media signed an deal in Febuary 2007 with Discovery they only has 13 channels in the UK and Ireland but since then Discovery has started up new channels - See post one for the list.

So if Virgin Media wants to carry the new Discovery channel they can BUT they will need to axe one of the Discovery own channels on the network right now.

Virgin Media last did this in Oct. when Watch started up - they axe UKTV History +1.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Tiscali tv use IPTV which menas they can get it because they have broadband access i believe bt vision is iptv as well not sure though

No it is not possible the area needs upgrade if no one will fund it then t is gone tv is not a neccessary and since all of uk is havig analogue switched off irign are under no obligation to keep providing it unless they want ot which is coslty for them because the equipment is very old and find spare parts isnt easy now

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

It never ceases to amaze me how the tiny amount of bandwidth on Freeview is used in the most utterly random ways. Whoever makes these decisions is clearly mentally unstable.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Motors TV goes widescreen

Motors TV, the motorsport channel carried on satellite and Virgin Media cable, is now broadcasting in widescreen.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...idescreen.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Im not one to complain usually but how come freeview stuff is on a "coming to virgin tv" thread?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Even with a V+ box it's useful to have the +1 channels there. There have been a few times that there have been 3 programmes on that I've wanted to record so having the option to record one of them an hour later on the +1 channel has been handy.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

yes I do this a lot too, although I would much rather have a completely new channel to watch.

It is a good idea but I still wonder why no one has launched a +24 instead

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

licsenging is the main reason i think.

to be honest i rather they lanch a tre on demand channel, where you have access to the channel entire archive and you can choose excately what you want to watch, and they only have 3 hour broadcas slot for new show/programs to watch

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

ESPN put in bid for Top English Football

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...elevision-espn

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Link needs ammending mediaboy, it doesn't work. But thanks for the news.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

try http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...elevision-espn

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hello Media Boy - Do you have the time to help me with my difficulty that I posted yesterday at 19.35 pm - please. It is a helluva long time since Virgin posted, by mail, a comprehensive list of correct Titles and Channel Numbers - as I am sure you know. At least, with your help, I will again be able to keep up with changes as they happen.

HaroldT [an octogenarian !]

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I'm stunned you can find so much on TV you want to watch. I record a couple of things a week (at most) from BBC HD and that's it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I think following has all the things you need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_on_Virgin_TV

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

any news on Daystar TV

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

All I know is in post one - RE still testing in Ex-ntl areas.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

There are frequently clashes of programmes during the week and I not only make full use of the +1 channels but also of my DVD recorder when I can't fit the programmes in on the V+.

A lot of people think there is nothing much on TV, but many people miss much more than they realise. Programmes such as 'Vanished', 'Sleeper Cell', 'Jericho', 'The Kill Point' and so forth are easily overlooked, which is why I don't rely solely on the TV Guide. I buy a good TV listings magazine and study it for about an hour or so when it comes out on Tuesdays, marking up the good programmes on the more obscure channels, and frankly, the results are extremely good.

My daughter was always complaining that there was nothing on until I told her about these programmes and she is extremely pleased - she would have missed them all without my intervention!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Alpha ETC Punjabi rebranded to ZEE Punjabi.

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...tc_punja_6.php

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

I found out about the rebranded today and post it here: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34716341-post275.html

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I post Freeview stuff due to some people having Freeview for the other room when they are on Virgin Media.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Media Boy - Just had a quick peak and it seems just the thing. This should keep me busy. Many thanks.

HaroldT

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The channels are all listed on your electronic programme guide. I don't really understand the problem.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hi Old Boy - If you look back a few entries you will find that Media Boy posted just the site I seemed to need - here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_on_Virgin_TV

But thanks....

HaroldT

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

There is a list printed in the electronic version of Virgin Media magazine 'Electric!'. Granted that isn't exactly right as there are a few channels with the wrong EPG numbers (i.e. Hallmark+1 being on 191). But on the whole it's correct...

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...nnel-guide.pdf

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

This weeks update now online - see post one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Not much happening on the VM network, as usual, but it seems the people at Sky will get yet another new channel, Discovery ID.:shrug:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Setanta on demand
ITV on demand coming soon

Still waiting for day that I can watch VOD on SKY

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

One change is that the inauguration is also going to be on BBC HD apparently. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...on_bbc_hd.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

not really too bothered about that. Seems loads of people around me are more concerned about the politics of another country than their own :shocked:

Usually with VM when they announce something it some online very soon or that day so hopefully we shouldn't have too long to wait for ITV Catch Up