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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Maybe we will get up on Monday and see Drama broadcasting on Virgin Media after all we did see Yesterday +1 and Eden +1 being axe to make way for Watch and Watch +1 to launch and even that was not confirmed until Watch launch day.
GOLD +1 may move to Channel 199.
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I don't understand why UKTV have made a big thing about Drama only being on Freeview. As pointed out elsewhere, they don't need to ask Sky for permission to broadcast on satellite. The only problem would be getting a SD EPG slot, but closing Blighty resolves that.
Perhaps, like some other freeview channels, it will be subscription on satellite and they mean that they have had to negotiate with Sky about that.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
Sky didn't get it automatically, a licence has been agreed according to Drama's Twitter site, it will launch on Sky on the 8th, channel numbers to be finalised. It also states they have nothing to announce regarding Virgin at the moment.
Maybe VM are waiting until the existing carriage agreement with UKTV is due for renewal.  |
It's possible that they will wait until the existing carriage agreement expires, but I'd have thought that they would either remove another channel eg as Channel 4 did by removing More4+1 when Channel 4+1 started, or do a straight swap like when heat replaced Q.