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Originally Posted by jj20x
A slightly confused view of what actually happened when Freeview started. Actually, the BBC / Crown Castle bid for the multiplexes had originally pencilled in a channel made up of CNN / TCM and Boomerang, this channel never happened. Presumably, carriage terms for this channel weren't agreed.
CBM was owned by a Midlands based media company, not by Turner, and carried a placeholder on Freeview for a number of months. CBM had planned to include a strand from Bloomberg in their content. After several months, the channel failed to appear and Crown Castle cancelled the contract with CBM. CBM subsequently announced plans for another Freeview channel with free sports content, which also failed to appear.
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Thanks for the info. It did seem odd that they would jump the gun and allow a placeholder before terms had even been agreed!
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I would love to have True Movies 2 on VM, as well as True Drama - these are FREE channels. I cannot see it though.
Not the way VM treats its customers. They will take channels off to accomdate them.
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I use a Free To Air (FTA) satellite box for anything I want to see on a FTA channel not on VM, though I do feel that one shouldn't need to.
I believe that a TiVo offering that comprises of all Freeview and Freesat channels would be a popular service.