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RichardCoulter · 28-07-2018, 23:20

This is what happened last weekend.

Because the contract for the UKTV channels expired without a new agreement being made, it was VM who prevented their customers from viewing the channels. Not doing so would have left them open to the threat of legal action by UKTV for showing unauthorised material.

The UKTV feeds continued and remained on new two digit numbers on the EPG.

The reason that they looked to have disappeared is because they were flagged to be in hidden mode, meaning that domestic set top boxes could no longer see them.

28-07-2018, 23:20	#538
RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,719	Re: Virgin Media & UKTV+ITV Channels This is what happened last weekend. Because the contract for the UKTV channels expired without a new agreement being made, it was VM who prevented their customers from viewing the channels. Not doing so would have left them open to the threat of legal action by UKTV for showing unauthorised material. The UKTV feeds continued and remained on new two digit numbers on the EPG. The reason that they looked to have disappeared is because they were flagged to be in hidden mode, meaning that domestic set top boxes could no longer see them.