General : Virgin TV (2025)

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

Rumour:

Both Broadcastnow and Digital Spy forum are reporting that Channel 5 will become known as 5 from March 12th 2025.

Not very imaginative are they? 'Five' was its name from 2002 to 2011, then back to channel 5, now 5. Some brand consultants are laughing all the way to the bank....

[locutus1974]

just waiting for it to rebrand to 5ive in 2029

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Not very imaginative are they? 'Five' was its name from 2002 to 2011, then back to channel 5, now 5. Some brand consultants are laughing all the way to the bank....

Surely they have some stats which back up these changes as they seem ridiculous.

[Dingbat]

Wouldn’t it be easier to rebrand as Paramount something?

[epsilon]

I've had an idea for the next big rebrand. Renaming ITVX to ITV, I'm surprised they haven't thought of this already...

[epsilon]

Overnight changes:
Eurosport 1HD & Eurosport 2HD have closed and had placeholder / end of service flags added to preserve recordings.
On channel 238 FAST channel Real Life has been rested and new FAST channel Wonder has launched.
Extra BBC One & ITV regional versions have been added to channels 858 and 871 on Brighton networks.
3 movie channels with promotional rebrands.
2 kids channels with promotional rebrands.
Further details:
https://ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

[vincerooney]

"Extra BBC One & ITV regional versions have been added to channels 858 and 871 on Brighton networks."

what does this mean exactly?

VM users in Brighton have two new regional channels ?

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

"Extra BBC One & ITV regional versions have been added to channels 858 and 871 on Brighton networks."

what does this mean exactly?

They have always had BBC One South East on 101 and ITV (Meridian - South Coast) on 103. Which is the same as the legacy terrestrial service. Now they also have BBC One South on 858 and ITV (Meridian - South East) on 871. So they get to choose which version of the local news they want to watch. There are some theories circulating as to why this happened but they relate to DTT rather than cable and are too complicated to try to explain here.

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

"Extra BBC One & ITV regional versions have been added to channels 858 and 871 on Brighton networks."

what does this mean exactly?

At DSO in 2012 the BBC decided to move the Brighton (Whitehawk Hill) transmitter group from the South to the South East region. In order to match this on cable, channel 101 from the Brighton headend was also moved from BBC South to BBC South East.

The problem is that the Brighton franchise also serves the rest of the coastal area from Worthing to Littlehampton, that did not change region on Freeview or Sky. Hence cable viewers in this area were getting the wrong BBC region. With these new varients, customers in the whole of the franchise area have both the South & South East BBC/ITV versions available wherever they are located.

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by nodrogd

At DSO in 2012 the BBC decided to move the Brighton (Whitehawk Hill) transmitter group from the South to the South East region. In order to match this on cable, channel 101 from the Brighton headend was also moved from BBC South to BBC South East.

The problem is that the Brighton franchise also serves the rest of the coastal area from Worthing to Littlehampton, that did not change region on Freeview or Sky. Hence cable viewers in this area were getting the wrong BBC region. With these new varients, customers in the whole of the franchise area have both the South & South East BBC/ITV versions available wherever they are located.

The status of the HD service on Freeview may also have had an impact on this decision.

---------- Post added at 07:37 ---------- Previous post was at 07:32 ----------

Overnight changes:
New Service - Pre-launch Configuration:
ID 2365 Premier Sports Rugby - Internal Networks Only

- Added to 3 internal networks often used for pre-launch configurations.
- The short EPG Name is Prem Rugby.
- Pre-launch EPG slot allocation - channel 553 (subject to change).
- Flagged as Sport & HD and hidden from the EPG.
- Video streams etc & subscription codes had not been added at the time of the analysis.
Further details:
https://ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

[Media Boy UK]

Today's Virgin Media UK Changes in full (Easy to understand):

New FAST Channel launch:
*Red Bull TV (Ch 556 - Not on TiVo boxes:

Moved:
*TNT Sports 1 HD moved from Ch 527 to Ch 521.
*TNT Sports 2 HD moved from Ch 528 to Ch 522.
*TNT Sports 3 HD moved from Ch 529 to Ch 523.
*TNT Sports 4 HD moved from Ch 530 to Ch 524.
*TNT Sports UHD moved from Ch 531 to Ch 525 (Not on TiVo Boxes).

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

Today's Virgin Media UK Changes in full (Easy to understand):

New FAST Channel launch:
*Red Bull TV (Ch 556 - Not on TiVo boxes:

Moved:
*TNT Sports 1 HD moved from Ch 527 to Ch 521.
*TNT Sports 2 HD moved from Ch 528 to Ch 522.
*TNT Sports 3 HD moved from Ch 529 to Ch 523.
*TNT Sports 4 HD moved from Ch 530 to Ch 524.
*TNT Sports UHD moved from Ch 531 to Ch 525 (Not on TiVo Boxes).

Things are always easier to understand if you rip all of the technical information out.
I didn't post this morning's changes as UKCTVC can't produce tables at the moment and there was just too much information to easily summarise before I had to go out.
As always, full technical details are available at:
https://ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

I'm sure they'll tidy that listing up when they have finished updating their database and can generate tables again.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by epsilon

Things are always easier to understand if you rip all of the technical information out.
I didn't post this morning's changes as UKCTVC can't produce tables at the moment and there was just too much information to easily summarise before I had to go out.
As always, full technical details are available at:
https://ukcabletvchanges.blogspot.com

I'm sure they'll tidy that listing up when they have finished updating their database and can generate tables again.

I wonder if Virgin Media will move Sky Sports Tennis, Sky Sports UHD and Premier Sports in the coming weeks???

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Media Boy UK

I wonder if Virgin Media will move Sky Sports Tennis, Sky Sports UHD and Premier Sports in the coming weeks???

Yes exciting isn't it? I'm losing sleep over it.