Sit-up ask workers to take Price Drop to keep channels bidding.
 

Info from Shopping telly.tv Forum.

Voting on a CVA is set for 2pm (UK Time) today (March 18th).

For more info go to http://forum.shoppingtelly.com/forum...-and-suppliers or http://forum.shoppingtelly.com/forum...s-CVA-proposal

Rumour from Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Thread:

Re: Sit-up ask workers to take Price Drop to keep channels bidding.
 

This sounds like a raw deal, but if the company went bankrupt, it's very unlikely that they would get anything. 1% is better than nothing!

It's a bad deal for staff, as if the company were to cease trading, any redundancy payments that could not be met by the company could be claimed from the National Insurance fund.

Did VM used to own these channels in the past and sell them off, or am I thinking of another shopping channel :confused:

I seem to remember VM decrypting and making the channels totally Free to Air in order to widen their reach.

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Sit up launch in 2000 as an independent Company before being sold to Telewest (Now part of Virgin Media) in 2005. Sit-Up Ltd was sold by Virgin Media to Aurelius AG in 2009. In December 2013, the struggling Bid Shopping group was taken over by former Corporate Restructuring Lawyer Bryan Green, the channel had posted pre-tax losses of 7.4m in 2011 and a 10% fall in sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid_tv

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Thought so, thanks for the info. MB :)

Re: Sit-up ask workers to take Price Drop to keep channels bidding.
 

Shopping channels must be a big risk to any service provider :shocked:

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Sit-up seems secure for now, with a majority of creditors having approved the CVA.

http://www.retail-week.com/multichan...ontentID=13145

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Shopping channels are a complete waste of a channel slot imo!

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Well better than yet another + channel full of repeats.I don't watch them myself but there are those who do and why should their interests not be accommodated.

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I agree with you on the +1 channels, it would be interesting to find out what the viewing figures were/are, i just wish Virgin would concentrate on more quality than quantity of channels, instead of more and more total rubbish! Apart from that, it was just my opinion in any case!

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With three tuners, if you want to make the most of your ability to record and watch programmes when you want, you need the +1 channels to avoid clashes.

As they are not stopping other channels from launching, I don't really understand the objection. Bandwidth is no longer a problem for Virgin Media.

I don't watch the shopping channels at all, but I recognise that some viewers are hooked on them, and also they bring in useful revenue for Virgin Media.

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When in the UK +1 are a must - Thursday night is log jam for me.
Not a problem when back in BR

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I have only ever used a shopping channel many once years ago, but shopping channels can be useful, eg for the disabled. They have, however, taken a hit with the increased useage of the internet over the years.

I agree that +1 channels are useful for resolving recording clashes.

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How many tuners do you have in BR Itshim?

Re: Sit-up ask workers to take Price Drop to keep channels bidding.
 

Here you go
http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly...g-summary?_s=4

Re: Sit-up ask workers to take Price Drop to keep channels bidding.
 

interesting site cheers for this spiderplant :)

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I see from that site 5+24 is really pulling in the viewers!

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The former studios used for the channels are now available for re-let for anybody interested:

http://www.leanforwardtv.co.uk/unit-11-acton-to-let

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I think all these shopping channels are a waste of time. There are better quality products on the internet, than from these shopping vhannels

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You forget Arthur, not everyone uses the internet or feels safe shopping on it.

My father in law for example still loves watching the shopping channels.