General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2

[RichardCoulter]

Another attempt to bring Irish programming to the UK is to be made.

Sky and RTE have just renewed their carriage agreement- the interesting bit for us is that they want to bring some Irish stations to the UK.

For rights reasons, I expect this to mean something along the lines of Tara TV as opposed to simulcasting RTE1 etc.

I would expect VM to pick up this channel if it were made available to them.

[Media Boy UK]

Bid TV to relaunch under new owners.

A516Digital is reporting that Bid TV are now under new owners and will relaunch it TV Channel soon.

http://www.a516digital.com/2015/09/b...rom-ashes.html

We have also seen on Twitter that Screenshop is also set to relaunch in 2016.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Another attempt to bring Irish programming to the UK is to be made.

Sky and RTE have just renewed their carriage agreement- the interesting bit for us is that they want to bring some Irish stations to the UK.

For rights reasons, I expect this to mean something along the lines of Tara TV as opposed to simulcasting RTE1 etc.

Well In September 2013, RTÉ did announced plans to launch the channel in the United Kingdom under the working title of RTÉ Ireland, as part of their five year strategic plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Ireland

[vincerooney]

whatever happened to that world box app? its comedy gold but nothing has been added for ages.

[denphone]

Like most of its apps development its all been oh so slow.

[Anypermitedroute]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

whatever happened to that world box app? its comedy gold but nothing has been added for ages.

Yes it a shame I though this had legs and is a good USP in acquiring niche channel content but alas no good deals to be done/still in the pipeline

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

There's currently speculation that the owners of the National Geographic Channel are to launch a free version of their channel. It should be noted that, as yourtv will be showing some National Geographic Programming, some believe that they are one and the same channel. Nobody knows for sure yet.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=uk

The text of that article strongly suggests that they are indeed talking about 'YourTV'.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Another attempt to bring Irish programming to the UK is to be made.

Sky and RTE have just renewed their carriage agreement- the interesting bit for us is that they want to bring some Irish stations to the UK.

For rights reasons, I expect this to mean something along the lines of Tara TV as opposed to simulcasting RTE1 etc.

I would expect VM to pick up this channel if it were made available to them.

Yes, more likely to watch some programming from that channel than 'Your TV'! Assuming, that is, that we get some of their peak time viewing and not just the daytime TV reality shows!

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The text of that article strongly suggests that they are indeed talking about YourTV'.

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Yes, more likely to watch some programming from that channel than 'Your TV'! Assuming, that is, that we get some of their peak time viewing and not just the daytime TV reality shows!

I think MB mentioned yourtv earlier in the thread it is owned by FOX who also own nat geo, nat geo wild i think.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute

Yes it a shame I though this had legs and is a good USP in acquiring niche channel content but alas no good deals to be done/still in the pipeline

Agreed! We need more good apps to be added to our Tivos. This should now be a priority for VM given the major change of pace (to dead slow) in respect of new TV channels.

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

I think MB mentioned yourtv earlier in the thread it is owned by FOX who also own nat geo, nat geo wild i think.

Yes, Richard is referring to the same channel in his post.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

I think MB mentioned yourtv earlier in the thread it is owned by FOX who also own nat geo, nat geo wild i think.

Yes we did see post 849.

Talking about YourTV Ofcom has today given an new DTT channel licence to: YourTV and YourTV +1.

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No YourTV licence for Cable and Sky has been seen yet.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radio...ndsat-main.htm

[dodgem22]

I dont think the current Tivo can cope with the apps it already has. It is tempermental to say the least sluggish and buggy.

However with rumors of a new Tivo coming soon maybe that will iron out the bugs, I hope it does I like the Tivo but not its slugginess and lock ups.

I hope History HD arrives soon for Ice Road truckers. As lets be honest it no longer shows History programmes.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

whatever happened to that world box app? its comedy gold but nothing has been added for ages.

Talking about World Box whatever happened to:

-EuroChannel
-BFM TV
-Ukraine Today
-CTC

Virgin Media says months ago that they was set to launch "At end of month".

But our TiVo source told us yesterday they are still to start.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by dodgem22

I dont think the current Tivo can cope with the apps it already has. It is tempermental to say the least sluggish and buggy.

However with rumors of a new Tivo coming soon maybe that will iron out the bugs, I hope it does I like the Tivo but not its slugginess and lock ups.

I hope History HD arrives soon for Ice Road truckers. As lets be honest it no longer shows History programmes.

Yes hopefully we will hear something soon about a new TiVo dodgem as there have been widespread rumours for a while about it.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes hopefully we will hear something soon about a new TiVo dodgem as there have been widespread rumours for a while about it.

How much was it to upgrade to the current Tivo when it came out?

£150 seems to ring a bell.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes hopefully we will hear something soon about a new TiVo dodgem as there have been widespread rumours for a while about it.

November.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

November.

News to us.