Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

[Nook29]

Originally Posted by zantarous

So who thinks Living HD will launch this month? Just reading the stuff from the investors report last week I kind of got the feeling that the rush to launch the HD channels last month was to make good on what was said last year to investors. Now that they have another 12 months things may slow down?

If it was to launch this month surely there would be loads more info available?

Not necessarily. There was no info about C4HD, just that it was coming soon. No definite date or channel info. Same with Living HD.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Nook29

Not necessarily. There was no info about C4HD, just that it was coming soon. No definite date or channel info. Same with Living HD.

Living HD is to launch in September 2009.

[zantarous]

Originally Posted by Nook29

Not necessarily. There was no info about C4HD, just that it was coming soon. No definite date or channel info. Same with Living HD.

That was not what I meant, C4 was already a channel broadcasting on other platforms. Stuff like marketing, and program acquisition. Maybe I am just a pessimist but it seems to quite for a high profile launch that is only weeks away.

[daveetwo]

Originally Posted by akki007

So you're agreeing with me then? To make racing more appealing they need to improve the sport. For example, remove the horses, courses and give the jockeys a ball and two nets. That way they can have two teams of 11 each aiming to get the ball into the opponents net.

lol
Its the racing industries job to make thier sport more attractive not virgins. (if virgin knew there was as big an audience as football then im sure they would have kept it free or less expensive.)
If the racing industry want virgins help then they should pay thier way.
If someone is a big fan of racing then thier contributions to should reflect that.
If i want to watch a minority sport that i enjoyed then its fair i should pay for that in the same way movie fans who want sky movies pay for it in thier own package selection.
Personally im not a big football or racing fan so im making an observation about why virgin has chosen to make a charge for racing.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by zantarous

So who thinks Living HD will launch this month? Just reading the stuff from the investors report last week I kind of got the feeling that the rush to launch the HD channels last month was to make good on what was said last year to investors. Now that they have another 12 months things may slow down?

If it was to launch this month surely there would be loads more info available?

Well look at CH4 HD VM said coming soon on the Thursday and then launched it on the Friday without a big build up. Same will maybe happen with Living HD.

They have gone from 1 to 6 HD channels in the space of a week I don't think they will be slowing down.

[Media Boy UK]

Post one has now been updated.

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Virgin Viewers in Sheffield to hear U2 live on August 20th.

Also covers Barnsley, Bradford, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield.

96.3 Radio Aire on Virgin Channel 933 has got the rights to U2 live from Sheffield Don Valley Stadium.

Other viewers outside this local area can hear it online on the Radio Aire web site.

http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.5049

[Dee4leeds]

Wait I'm in Leeds and I don't have Radio Aire on my tv. What's going on?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Dee4leeds

Wait I'm in Leeds and I don't have Radio Aire on my tv. What's going on?

Inaccurate reporting is going on. Leeds and Huddersfield don't have Radio Aire on cable.

[Dee4leeds]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Inaccurate reporting is going on. Leeds and Huddersfield don't have Radio Aire on cable.

Fair enough.

[devilincarnate]

Hey have just seen this over on digital spy for anybody that is a fan of bspl

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...tv-rights.html

so no concrete evidence but it shows that the bbc are involved again so is it going to be another match of the day ?

[lemarsh]

would be great if either ITV, 5, Eurosport, Bravo or ESPN took up the rights - as I would get it for free.

Don;t subscribe to Sky Sports - so not wanting it to go there. Think they would only show the odd high profile game and play-offs only - poss internet highlights). if they did get, would I subscribe - difficult. Knowing them, they would put it on the Red Button

By the way - not mentioned it before, but thanks Virgin for my HD channels & ESPN. Now if only they could get caller id working on my telephone (please note, not an invite to add to this thread about caller id!!

[dsmuk]

Originally Posted by zantarous

So who thinks Living HD will launch this month? Just reading the stuff from the investors report last week I kind of got the feeling that the rush to launch the HD channels last month was to make good on what was said last year to investors. Now that they have another 12 months things may slow down?

If it was to launch this month surely there would be loads more info available?

Everything does seems to be focused around the investors meeting, other than LIVING HD I would not expect anything until the next meeting/announcement.

EDIT: not based on any fact other than being a customer for 10+ years!

[sakiblateef]

The newly launched Asian package on Sky View Asia has infomed Biz Asia in an interview that they are negotiating with other platforms to launch their package.

Some of the channels are already on Virgin and if Virgin give the go ahead we could see three new channels added.

The current offering of the View Asia package includes the following channels:

MAX
Sony TV
B4U Movies
ARY Digital
Sahara One
Aaj Tak
SAB

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar..._singh_tal.php

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by sakiblateef

The newly launched Asian package on Sky View Asia has infomed Biz Asia in an interview that they are negotiating with other platforms to launch their package.

Some of the channels are already on Virgin and if Virgin give the go ahead we could see three new channels added.

The current offering of the View Asia package includes the following channels:

MAX
Sony TV
B4U Movies
ARY Digital
Sahara One
Aaj Tak
SAB

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar..._singh_tal.php

I'm sure that Media Boy posted recently that VM were considering dropping their current charges for the Asian channels, and putting them on the TV-XL package for free.

UPDATE....

It appears that the above is an error, I just found this denying the claim.

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsar...n_media_de.php

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin Media starts Living HD tests.

Virgin Media is today starting to run tests for Living HD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...FBefore_Launch

Info from Wikipedia.