Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 25-07-2009, 19:43   #2150
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by Lew View Post
Not strictly true. The version we are currently receiving has to continue running for the Scandinavian countries who can't watch the European version due to similar NFL rights issues. I believe the version we'll be getting will be a brand new channel in place of the current version of ESPNA rather than the existing ESPNA morphing into ESPN UK. Although I think that the chances are slim to none, I hold out a small hope that VM somehow manage to arrange to carry both channels.
Well yes, I did mean in this country. The point still stands, why advertise how to get ESPN UK on the ESPNA website, ESPNA won't exist here so it makes no sense.

I'd say smaller than slim to none as the content shown on ESPNA has already been confirmed to be showing on ESPN UK, there's no need to have two channels showing mostly the same content. In future ESPNA may come back if ESPN get enough content to push the American sports back out onto their own channel, but not for a while.
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