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Old 11-04-2008, 10:18   #16
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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Old 11-04-2008, 14:07   #17
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

yeah & i can really see the president of france replying to you lol sorry but he must be a busy man & have more important things to worry about then a TV channel plus your not even living in his country. i dont mean to sound negative im just being realistic.
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:23   #18
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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yeah & i can really see the president of france replying to you lol sorry but he must be a busy man & have more important things to worry about then a TV channel plus your not even living in his country. i dont mean to sound negative im just being realistic.
Cela va sans dire , that he will be far too busy at home with the gorgeous Madame President to worry about an English version of a French TV channel ...
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Old 13-04-2008, 15:39   #19
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

I'd like to see Fox News added. It's the most entertaining news channel on TV! Fair and balanced too.
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Old 13-04-2008, 15:47   #20
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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as i say it'd be very unlikely that they'd ax the english version as it is available around the world & is well respected.
Since when has that bothered the French? This isn't an anti french rant, but this is a country that is actively working to remove English terms and slang from it's own language.

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I'd like to see Fox News added. It's the most entertaining news channel on TV! Fair and balanced too.
Where's that Sarcasm smiley?
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

I come from the Chris Morris school of sarcasm :p .
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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I'd like to see Fox News added. It's the most entertaining news channel on TV! Fair and balanced too.
yes - I can't see why we can't have France24 AND Fox News

there seem to be a lot of free channels above 600 ie

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and all the channels up to 700 ie 621>700
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Free channel numbers does not equate to free channel bandwidth
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I'd like to see Fox News added. It's the most entertaining news channel on TV! Fair and balanced too.
Yeah right Horace, Id say Fox is about as "fair minded" as the BNP.
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Old 19-04-2008, 08:06   #25
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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Free channel numbers does not equate to free channel bandwidth
agreed but in the news 'block' of 100 channels ( 600-699) there appear to be only about 20 channels used which means there are about 80 channels free

there must be some free bandwidth there otherwise they wouldn't have designed the box with 1000 channels and 100 for News

surely there is enough room for France24 as presumably the Sky News bandwidth is free as is the bandwidth for the other rogue Sky channels ( 15 in number ?)
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Cela va sans dire , that he will be far too busy at home with the gorgeous Madame President to worry about an English version of a French TV channel ...
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lol my point exactly ;o)

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I'd like to see Fox News added. It's the most entertaining news channel on TV! Fair and balanced too.
i second that about getting Fox News however they are well known for been single minded & only reporting what they want to & how they want to.

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Since when has that bothered the French? This isn't an anti french rant, but this is a country that is actively working to remove English terms and slang from it's own language.
mate whether you mean it in a bad way or not i am partly French & im not too happy with your comments.
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

I've heard unofficially that VM may be increasing the number of news channels

France24 and Al-Jazera News and even Fox News have been mentioned

News is pretty badly supplied at the moment on VM
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

VM always promise the earth but never deliver.
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

I'l rather watch static/interfereance than any French channel
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Re: Forget Sky News on cable - let's have France24 newschannel instead please

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I've heard unofficially that VM may be increasing the number of news channels

France24 and Al-Jazera News and even Fox News have been mentioned

News is pretty badly supplied at the moment on VM
I really hope this is true! Russia Today would be a good news channel also.

But I have learnt to not get my hopes up when it comes to Virgin Media TV! Only time will tell I suppose.
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