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Old 13-03-2018, 13:19   #557
RichardCoulter
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)

A) The carrot to incentivise customers onto the V6 is the offer of a free box, the drip drip removal of channels from legacy boxes is the stick. There are no technical reasons why this had to be done.

B) It's cheaper for the broadcaster.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy View Post
The Evening Standard: Ofcom to consider Russian news channel RT's licence.

Media watchdog Ofcom is set to review Russian news network RT's British broadcasting licence following developments in the Salisbury poisoning investigation.

Russia Today is broadcasting on Virgin Media Ireland at time of posting.

A spokesman for RT said: "It’s regrettable that some see baseless attacks on RT as a way to score easy PR points, but those attacks betray not just the highest principles of the British society...but the British public at large."

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/s...-a3788121.html
I don't think that this will affect VM viewers (unless RT is on VM in NI.)

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