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Old 17-03-2019, 12:26   #455
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Well, it would be nice for us to get the bits and bats that are missing from the platform.

It does seem odd that the fairly recently launched Total Country decided (and could afford) to join VM, but the longer established (and, according to it's owner, hugely successful*) Keep It Country didn't appear. Perhaps their new competitor has prompted Keep It Country to join cable too??

* The channels owner has claimed that it gets more viewers than Sky Sports when a major match is on! Mind you, he also claimed that his channel was HD on Freeview, just because it had been added to one of the temporary HD muxes.

These temporary muxes are now slowly being closed and there won't be room for all the channels currently broadcasting on them. I suspect that the tiny amount of capacity available on Freeview will have shot up in price. If he can't find space or cannot afford to go onto a permanent mix, maybe he intends to replace his lost viewers with VM customers??
Keep It Country has moved to Freeview COM4, but at the expence of losing their coverage in Wales. The proliferation of Scottish & Irish artists sponsoring (and presenting) the programmes is no doubt alleviating some of their costs. The channel is also heavily marketed in the Irish Republic. Total Country ignores this market concentrating on US & English based content.

Total Country has the same owner as Clubland TV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Country
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