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Old 26-12-2017, 03:05   #3814
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by ozsat View Post
The slate always said temporary
As far as I remember, and Richard's original post should confirm this, the "This channel is temporarily unavailable" was only on the PPN service "advert" on EPG slot 971. The actual subscription channel on EPG slot 979 carried the "Channel No Longer Available" description on the EPG and the "service replacement" slate would have been displayed 24/7 to any subscribers able to view it.

That, sort of, made sense as the NVOD channel linked to the advert on slot 971 is a VM internal service with no (visible) direct link to the EPG. So VM could have replaced the PPN service with any other PPN service, explaining the "temporarily unavailable message".

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and it is back on VM only. No sign on Sky.

Perhaps they still have a contract with VM to fulfil.
Perhaps, although I thought I covered that scenario in post #3795.