This is a series of posts from another thread.
Apparently, AATV are said to have told this person that VM told them that they could only launch their new music channels via an app.
Does anybody know if this speculation is true (or not)?
I was told that VM had fairly recently spent a lot of money on upgrading their headends etc to increase their capacity.
If there is a problem with capacity, maybe it's why we haven't been getting any new channels lately. Even Freeview has TruTV, YourTV etc.
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Originally Posted by YouView
I contacted AATW about their weirdly branded app/EPG slot for their 4 music channels and their answer was they don't think their own AATW brand is strong enough to get noticed by viewers hence the messy way they have tried to create a single name out of 4 others.
When I asked why they aren't just listed in the EPG as proper channels rather than housed in a app when said that was the only method made available to them by VM, which I can't understand unless VM really do have a capacity issue and are limiting any new channels.
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Originally Posted by YouView
AATW are saying that launching the channels in an app (as internet streams) is the only method made available to them by VM, I was suggesting that VM must have a capacity issue if they had to do this rather than allowing them onto the EPG as normal channels (like all the MTV music channels on VM, or all the AATW channels on Sky and Freesat).
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Originally Posted by omnidirectional
AATW are part of Universal Music, the world's biggest record label so they aren't short of cash. They could easily launch Clubland etc as proper channels on cable if allowed by the gatekeeper (Virgin).
You have to wonder why channels like Spike, TruTV and MovieMix are on every platform except Virgin, and 3 MTV channels had to be removed to make room for Comedy Central HD, but it's always been like that with cable.
A while back, The Register did a really good article about how Virgin Media TV works, and the person they interviewed said:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08...e_sofa/?page=4
That's kind of what has happened with these AATW music channels. They've been allowed to launch, but only as an app which streams over the internet so the channels aren't using cable TV bandwidth. |