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Old 23-07-2014, 13:35   #821
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
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Originally Posted by Media Boy View Post
Now we know why Sky Sports News is on Virgin Channel 501.

Sky Sports News to get new onscreen look from August.

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To mark the significance of the new launch next month Sky Sports News will move from channel 405 to 401.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...s-star-3897575
Good grief! If a channel number change from 405 to 401 is a headline change, the new studio will have been hyped up to be something it really is not!

I've heard everything now!

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Originally Posted by Bananaman_007 View Post
ITV have had to do some re-gigging since Encore launched and with the launch of BE coming. Looks like ITV2 is going to be more comedy focused with ITV 3 becoming more general. We are already seeing that with them showing Long Lost Family, Love Your Garden, Dickinson's Real Deal and the soap omnibus showings on ITV3 now.

I fully expect Big Brother to show up on ITV Be. Viacom have already said they are committed to upping the quality of shows on Channel5 and have given them a sizable budget to do so. The rights are up for grabs after the next celeb series and it has been proven that it can hold an audience of between 1-2 million for the non celb shows and 2-4million for the celeb ones. Any show getting that on ITV Be i am sure they would be extremely happy.

It will be interesting to see what ITV show on ITV2. The shows they have bought in Mom, Dads, TVOD, Viral Tap have all been quite poor
If this is true, I am disappointed. To my mind, they should be using ITV2 for the best repeated programmes of the week, new original programming, films and perhaps some older stuff thrown in. It should continue to be regarded as their second main channel. If it's going to become another 'Comedy Central' then that is a big waste of an opportunity to improve ITV's reputation.

ITV 3 should continue to show dramas, most of them of the older variety from 3+ years ago is fine (I watched Jericho on ITV 3 and thoroughly enjoyed it), and ITV 4 could be used for programmes of other genres such as sport.

The way things are going, ITV1 and ITV Encore will be the only channels ever used in our household (although ITV Be might be of interest to my wife!).
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