General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)

[telegramsam]

Not heard any news on Spike being on Virgin myself .

[Nightdeamon]

Could living be rebranded Sky America perhaps?

[undertakereddie]

Originally Posted by undertakereddie

Why Don't Sky Give Brand New Names For There Entertainment Channels Such as:

Rename Sky 1 into Sky Family

Rename Sky Living into Sky Crime

Rename Sky Atlantic into Sky Exsclusive

Rename Pick TV into Sky Free Range

Rename Challenge into Sky Entertainment

Rename Sky Arts 1 into Sky Performance

Rename Sky Arts 2 into Sky Lifestyle

Thats what i would do if i was BskyB.

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Sky Free Range....................are they branching into food ?

Scrambled or poached anyone

Originally Posted by passingbat

I think Sky would end up with egg on their face if they went for those names.

Originally Posted by Nightdeamon

Could living be rebranded Sky America perhaps?

No Not Food Im Mean a tv channel that Show American or British TV Shows that have ended for good and have got given second outing for free.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Nightdeamon

Could living be rebranded Sky America perhaps?

It would certainly be an interesting proposition , let's be honest Sky has some decent US shows across it's Sky Living and Sky One channels combining them on the one would be a good move in my opinion.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Any news on spike TV coming to VM? launches on Wednesday on Freeview, Freesat, Sky & Talk Talk but typically nothing agreed with VM by the looks of it

Not heard anything since the "in talks" situation where Viacom gave a provisional launch date of 10 April (since moved and confirmed to be 15 April).

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

The saliant point is that the information is in the public domain for those with the capability of tuning into off EPG broadcasts.

You're right in that some 'leaks' can be traced back to the individual concerned and that it's not worth someone losing their job over, but I can't see it being possible in this instance.

All we know is that a number of unamed channels are testing on the system and that a sizeable number of people have access to this information. I doubt VM are particularly bothered, particularly as the channel names have been coded and the broadcasts encrypted.

That's not to say that I would encourage anybody to breach a trust on information passed to them.

Well MB's source is (for whatever reason) clearly concerned about it, regardless of how many people are testing, even in this instance. I don't understand why you can't grasp that.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

Well MB's source is (for whatever reason) clearly concerned about it, regardless of how many people are testing, even in this instance. I don't understand why you can't grasp that.

We've all moved on since then.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Any news on spike TV coming to VM? launches on Wednesday on Freeview, Freesat, Sky & Talk Talk but typically nothing agreed with VM by the looks of it

It's not really launching on TalkTalk. TalkTalk YouView, BT YouView and retail YouView boxes provide the standard Freeview channels of which Spike will be one. But I appreciate that Spike's website does state TalkTalk so perhaps TalkTalk has paid to be included on the adverts and BT has not.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

It's not really launching on TalkTalk. TalkTalk YouView, BT YouView and retail YouView boxes provide the standard Freeview channels of which Spike will be one. But I appreciate that Spike's website does state TalkTalk so perhaps TalkTalk has paid to be included on the adverts and BT has not.

I'm sure i read somewhere that Spike will be on 2 channels on TalkTalk youview? The normal Freeview and then further up the channel numbers in the TalkTalk 'band'.

Pretty pointless i know but there you go!

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

It's not really launching on TalkTalk. TalkTalk YouView, BT YouView and retail YouView boxes provide the standard Freeview channels of which Spike will be one. But I appreciate that Spike's website does state TalkTalk so perhaps TalkTalk has paid to be included on the adverts and BT has not.

Hmmmm, an interesting observation.

Originally Posted by johnathome

I'm sure i read somewhere that Spike will be on 2 channels on TalkTalk youview? The normal Freeview and then further up the channel numbers in the TalkTalk 'band'.

Pretty pointless i know but there you go!

Have Talk Talk rented some Freeview capacity?

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Hmmmm, an interesting observation.



Have Talk Talk rented some Freeview capacity?

No they use the internet to stream channels.

[Derekb108]

Originally Posted by Nightdeamon

Could living be rebranded Sky America perhaps?

Does anyone remember Sky Scottish?

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

No they use the internet to stream channels.

That was it.

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I'm sure i read somewhere that Spike will be on 2 channels on TalkTalk youview? The normal Freeview and then further up the channel numbers in the TalkTalk 'band'.

Pretty pointless i know but there you go!

Spike will be on the COM6 mux so wont be available to customers on Freeview Lite. I assume the dual slots would make a streamed version available to those people who cant get it "off-air".

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by nodrogd

Spike will be on the COM6 mux so wont be available to customers on Freeview Lite. I assume the dual slots would make a streamed version available to those people who cant get it "off-air".

Thanks, that explains the (what seemed at first) strange decision.

So those BT customers who are on Freeview Lite won't be getting it to begin with, unless BT agree to stream it as well.