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Old 12-10-2017, 16:40   #2981
RichardCoulter
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by jj20x View Post
It won't work as an FTA channel with such a narrow remit. The number of viewers will be too small to be of interest to advertisers. The remit could change but the likes of "Last of The Summer Wine", "Goodnight Sweetheart", "One Foot In The Grave" and the rest of the content wheeled out by UKTV across FTA channels wouldn't be a good fit for Eden.
Another problem is that I think it would need a Freeview slot to be successful as a FTA channel, but there's only part of a day left on nationwide DTT.

Have a feeling that UKTV may consolidate some channel/s to get around this.
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