General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 2

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

i live for the day we get rid of generic timescales like "autumn this year" "early this summer"

JUST SAY

"BETWEEN JUNE AND JULY OR WHATEVER"

sorry i'm shouting in capital letters

Just been given an update by an Virgin Insider.

Cant reveal info but will say more when I can.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

When Freeview first started, a channel placeholder called CBM appeared. This channel never came to fruition and was rumoured to consist of elements of TCM, Cartoon Network and Bloomberg. Looks like this could be another attempt by Turner to get back into the FTA market. I say 'get back' as, like many of us, the former head of Turner hated Sky and, despite the monetary loss, refused to join the Sky Multichannels package. For many, many years Cartoon Network and TNT were broadcast FTA.

A slightly confused view of what actually happened when Freeview started. Actually, the BBC / Crown Castle bid for the multiplexes had originally pencilled in a channel made up of CNN / TCM and Boomerang, this channel never happened. Presumably, carriage terms for this channel weren't agreed.

CBM was owned by a Midlands based media company, not by Turner, and carried a placeholder on Freeview for a number of months. CBM had planned to include a strand from Bloomberg in their content. After several months, the channel failed to appear and Crown Castle cancelled the contract with CBM. CBM subsequently announced plans for another Freeview channel with free sports content, which also failed to appear.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I would love to have True Movies 2 on VM, as well as True Drama - these are FREE channels. I cannot see it though.

Not the way VM treats its customers. They will take channels off to accomdate them.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Just been given an update by an Virgin Insider.

Cant reveal info but will say more when I can.

Ah good work MB. I love the anticipation with these!

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I would love to have True Movies 2 on VM, as well as True Drama - these are FREE channels. I cannot see it though.

Not the way VM treats its customers. They will take channels off to accomdate them.

So tell me if you can get BT Sports free on Sky Arthur and the answer to that is no unless you want to pay £15 more.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by jj20x

A slightly confused view of what actually happened when Freeview started. Actually, the BBC / Crown Castle bid for the multiplexes had originally pencilled in a channel made up of CNN / TCM and Boomerang, this channel never happened. Presumably, carriage terms for this channel weren't agreed.

CBM was owned by a Midlands based media company, not by Turner, and carried a placeholder on Freeview for a number of months. CBM had planned to include a strand from Bloomberg in their content. After several months, the channel failed to appear and Crown Castle cancelled the contract with CBM. CBM subsequently announced plans for another Freeview channel with free sports content, which also failed to appear.

Thanks for the info. It did seem odd that they would jump the gun and allow a placeholder before terms had even been agreed!

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I would love to have True Movies 2 on VM, as well as True Drama - these are FREE channels. I cannot see it though.

Not the way VM treats its customers. They will take channels off to accomdate them.

I use a Free To Air (FTA) satellite box for anything I want to see on a FTA channel not on VM, though I do feel that one shouldn't need to.

I believe that a TiVo offering that comprises of all Freeview and Freesat channels would be a popular service.

[Media Boy UK]

Updated list of channels rumoured to be coming in 2014 to Virgin Media.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...y-come-to.html

[blue666666]

What's movie max never heard of it history hd and natgeo hd will be good for me

[Aguero9320]

Originally Posted by gba93

May I add my welcome too!!

Let me add mine. Welcome to CF, Ultimate Conj! Several rumoured channels to be launching on VM over the coming months including the long awaited Sky Sports HD channels!

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Just been given an update by an Virgin Insider.

Cant reveal info but will say more when I can.

look forward to the news when you can say MB

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by Dave42

summer officially starts 21st june so after then it launch will be my guess

Depends if they follow the meteorological summer then they could launch anytime from June 1st

[jonbxx]

If I was running Sky, I wouldn't let VM have the channels until after the World Cup to be honest. Events like the World Cup are huge sellers for HD television and if a punter wanted to finally bite the bullet and get HD, which service looks better right now?

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Depends if they follow the meteorological summer then they could launch anytime from June 1st

didnt they say a year ago a channel (i cant remember what one) was due to launch by spring and i just remember posts on here saying "isnt spring now over technically?" and people giving definitions of spring.

I think basically VM say things like "by summer" and dont follow any definition but it gives them basically a 3 month period to do whatever they want and then can keep referring people back to the "by summer" tagline.

[MalteseFalcon]

But I thought that only BBC and ITV had the live rights to games, both of which offer HD anyway (free, or if not free, certainly at a substantial reduction of what sports and HD sub would be anyway), so SKY Sports in HD would not be much of a deal breaker for those wanting World Cup games in HD. And anyway, I imagine any World Cup games SKY show would be on the already available HD sports channels, 1 and 2.

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Yes, looking at Wiki the live broadcasting rights are for BBC and ITV only, so there will only be highlights on SKY.

[InformationMedia]

I wonder if any tv companies will fill the void left by ESPN Classic in the near future? Pitch International Ltd hold quite a few rights and produced plenty of programs for ESPN, Maybe there is a gap in the market for them to produce a TV channel in the near future.......