General : Changes to Virgin TV (2021)

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin Media do have some spare cash due to FOX being axe as TV Channels by Disney. But BT has come to the table with nothing new to give Virgin Media this time around.

Last time in 2018 BT give Virgin Media the BT Sport UHD Channel.

Maybe for all we know BT wants more pennys per head or Virgin Media wants more % from the BT Sport PPVS*.

*In 2018 BT Sport did not offer WWE on PPV.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by ozsat

In the US you have to subscribe to Peacock to get the WWE Network material - it is not available on the free ad-funded package.
Also, they do not get the weekly Raw and Smackdown shows until at least 28 days after they transmission on other networks as these rights are different. So currently on US Peacock the latest shows are from the last week in June and we are in August.

If Peacock becomes Sky exclusive and they take the WWE network away i'll be fuming haha

[muppetman11]

You can always find Pantomimes in your local area Vince.

[Media Boy UK]

Found that two "total channels" has been removed from the NIT overnight.

I think the channels are Get Moving HD (May 1st) and BET (April 8th).

[Legendkiller2k]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

If Peacock becomes Sky exclusive and they take the WWE network away i'll be fuming haha

You'll be able to subscribe direct to peacock one would imagine, prices prob similar to USA but in gbp for us so £4.99p/m and £9.99p/m at a guess.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k

You'll be able to subscribe direct to peacock one would imagine, prices prob similar to USA but in gbp for us so £4.99p/m and £9.99p/m at a guess.

I would have thought that all three tiers would be available on other platforms before long, Legendkiller. Sky just happen to be getting the free ad-adulterated one first.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k

You'll be able to subscribe direct to peacock one would imagine, prices prob similar to USA but in gbp for us so £4.99p/m and £9.99p/m at a guess.

Would it be an app in its own right or will it just be a pass on Now TV or indeed as part of the Entertainment Pass on Now TV?

I imagine Comcast has had these debates internally and decided a route.

[Phunkenstein]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Would it be an app in its own right or will it just be a pass on Now TV or indeed as part of the Entertainment Pass on Now TV?

I imagine Comcast has had these debates internally and decided a route.

That hasn’t been immediately clear but I saw this tweet from one of Peacock’s Senior Tech People…

https://twitter.com/mattdeco/status/...597383683?s=21

I believe the plan is initially you’ll access Peacock as a section in the Sky platform app and then a standalone app will come later, with Fire TV and Google TV supported at launch

Seems to suggest on Sky and Now it’s integrated into the existing ecosystems - which would make sense given that Peacock was built off the back of them - but a stand-alone will eventually be released, which in itself raises questions about why Comcast would want two potentially competing products in the market but i guess it remains to be seen…

[Media Boy UK]

Discovery, ITV and Sky are eyeing up bids for Channel 4.

https://www.reuters.com/business/dis...ph-2021-07-31/

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Do you have an source for that BT Sport axe as broadcast channels story?

https://www.forumbox.co.uk/forum/thr...treaming-only/

I've just been told that the codes for BT subscription packages have now been removed from the slate. Panic over?

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Originally Posted by Media Boy

Found that two "total channels" has been removed from the NIT overnight.

I think the channels are Get Moving HD (May 1st) and BET (April 8th).

Get Moving has been partly removed. BET was removed early in July.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by epsilon

I've just been told that the codes for BT subscription packages have now been removed from the slate. Panic over?

Good to see some good news in 2021. And it on my 40th birthday week.

[Media Boy UK]

Media Boy Sources has given me the head up on an big announcement coming soon on an streaming service.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jfman

BT won’t have definitive plans for anything re BT Sport - you can’t put half of your business up for sale and commit your as yet unidentifiable business partner to your business model. It only decreases the pool of potential investors.

The most obvious reason to accept a short term contract (over none) is that taking a hit later rather than now is an improved financial outcome. Regardless of how many people genuinely have BT Sport as a factor for subscribing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, will be onto retentions.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy Sources has given me the head up on an big announcement coming soon on an streaming service.

Well, let’s hope it’s Disney+. That will do for starters…

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, let’s hope it’s Disney+. That will do for starters…

If it's a big announcement, that would be a good guess.

[1701-e]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy Sources has given me the head up on an big announcement coming soon on an streaming service.

Coming soon......