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Old 09-08-2014, 09:39   #1255
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
But the cableco merged and merged again, until it was no longer interested in serving local services and it never happened.
Cable operators also had a statutory requirement to provide a local television channel, but this was dropped at some point in the nineties around the time of the big mergers.

Bell Cablemedia in East London had a scrolling information service filled with out-of-date information then for one week a year they would put out some programmes just to fulfil the legal requirements.
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