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RichardCoulter · 05-09-2017, 20:59

That's true.

People tend to argue that it does well as a subscription channel, so there's no incentive for UKTV to make it FTA.

On the other hand, people have also said that it's a shadow of its former self and that a lot of its content is now duplicated on other FTA UKTV channels eg it's comedy programmes on Yesterday!

If this advert did appear, I wonder if it was shown early in error. This would give us an indication that it will come to Freeview at some point (unless it's already on Freeview, I can't check as my aerial is out of action).

05-09-2017, 20:59	#2522
RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,067	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017) That's true. People tend to argue that it does well as a subscription channel, so there's no incentive for UKTV to make it FTA. On the other hand, people have also said that it's a shadow of its former self and that a lot of its content is now duplicated on other FTA UKTV channels eg it's comedy programmes on Yesterday! If this advert did appear, I wonder if it was shown early in error. This would give us an indication that it will come to Freeview at some point (unless it's already on Freeview, I can't check as my aerial is out of action).