Virgin Media: Virgin Media to Acquire UTV Ireland.
Virgin Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Global, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ITV plc to acquire UTV Ireland, the nation’s newest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, for a purchase price of €10 million. The agreement also includes a comprehensive 10 year output deal for Ireland for ITV produced programming. The purchase price is expected to be funded through existing liquidity.
http://about.virginmedia.com/press-r...re-utv-ireland
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It makes sense Spike would want to launch before the weekend as they have a big Saturday night this week for MMA fans
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90% Spike will not launch on Virgin Media UK this week.
As of 3pm today no new channels are testing.
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And, don't know if its been mentioned here or not, but Ch4 are launching a kids channel supposedly on all platforms soon and Sky are also bringing out a kids channel too, it already exists in on demand form.
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Digital Spy Forum was reporting last week that Channel 4 Kids is now testing on Sky.
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Let's hope VM are giving us some summertime presents. I do hope for the remaining Freeview channels and the Sony/CSC channels.
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We have no seen any news about more Sony/CSC Channels set to launch any time soon on Virgin Media UK.
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Bay TV Swansea has started broadcasting a promo on Freeview.
They will not be going onto satellite, but will this be coming to VM?
Are the other Bay TV channels eg Liverpool on cable?
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Virgin Media do have Bay TV in Liverpool.
We have not been told of any tests for Bay TV Swansea on Virgin Media UK.
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Season 6 of Justified started last night on Spike and the episode can be seen on Virgin catch-up.
Apparently, they've accidentally added shows from Spike before then swiftly realised and pulled them, so I suggest anyone interested acts fast.[/url]
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Justified being added to Virgin Media UK mean nothing.
Virgin Media was broadcasting BBC ALBA on Virgin on Demand for about 24 months before BBC ALBA did launch on Virgin Media.