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Old 21-01-2015, 15:27   #341
RichardCoulter
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 1

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Originally Posted by andy_m View Post
Highly regarded outside of the country it broadcasts in. Less so from a lot of people who consider it institutionally biased and have little choice but to pay for something which channel 4 have shown can be self funding. But hey ho.
Channel 4 have severe funding problems and have projected losses in the years to come. At one time their was even talk of two or three of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 merging.

There just isn't the advertising revenue that there once was.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Do many people watch the music channels these days ?
AIUI the viewing of music channels has declined dramatically and some former pay music channels have gone Free To Air. So yes, you'd think that MTV would be eager to get all of their channels onto VM to try and bolster their flagging ratings.
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