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Originally Posted by nodrogd
Interesting that the closure of Radio Caroline is mentioned, & Peter Moore's comments make interesting reading as regard to Sky's attitude to receiving channels without an EPG slot on their boxes. So much for Sky having an 'open' platform.
...we decided to take an Sky EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) but this did not give the expected increase in either listeners or advertisers and it was costing a fortune so we gave that up.
All we wanted to do was to revert to manual tuning as before. It was not known by us, nor our provider, that Sky had hardened their attitude to non EPG signals. We found that no Sky SD boxes would get our signal at all. Sky had nil interest in sending a software signal to make the boxes hear us. Then we found that each time they sent a general update to the HD boxes, this wiped the stored memory so that the listener had to go through the tuning process all over again and again....
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I know that Radio Caroline is coming off satellite on 30 Setember, but are they closing on UPC too (as per MB list). If so, I guess that Radio Caroline won't be coming to VM.
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Originally Posted by senna123
I have made a list of channels that broadcast on other TV providers in the UK (Freesat, Freeview, Wight Fibre but not Sky) & on UPC Ireland, since it's related to Virgin Media. These channels don't currently broadcast on Virgin Media, it is just to show what channels other providers carry. Maybe Virgin should carry all of these channels then they can say they offer all of the Freeview and Freesat channels.
.....Fashion One
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Fashion One recently came off Freesat, not sure if it's on Sky. As Fashion TV is a much larger company and Is currently carried by UPC in Ireland, I would imagine it more likely that we would get the latter.
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Originally Posted by dj_wayne
I can confirm apart from Netflix no channels will be launching this year
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A new childrens service called Tiddlers TV will start shortly. Just think Teletext
