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Old 25-08-2017, 23:53   #2349
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
As it's showing an advert for Saturday's boxing one can only hope "Virgin start ad hoc streams in the background for pay per view events" isn't the most interesting thing you have up your sleeve.
That advert is on the "Live Events" slate (SID 714) which is the gateway to PPV Events for legacy boxes (channel zero). The PPV Slate (SID 4408) is encrypted so could say anything, or nothing.

Note: Digitalbitrate.com is showing the BBC Red Button logo on a video capture but it is an old capture from when SID 4408 was used for the pop-up BBC Red Button 2 channel.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
If this is a rebrand, they might fall fall foul of whoever owns The Children's Channel these days. TCC was their branding at the end of its life!

Edit: Well, according to Wikipedia, TCC was owned by Flextech who were owned by VM, who in turn sold it to Sky. Challenge, (Sky) Living were amongst the assets sold.
AFAIK it is a holding channel for Community Channel to EPG squat on their existing LCN / EPG slot until they decide to return to Freeview. It is showing Community Channel programmes between 4 and 6am but apparently not the same content that Community Channel is showing during those hours.