General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Eh?

FA Cup replay. Technically it may be in the wrong thread, but ultimately it will be coming soon Virgin TV, and as such Cambridge United will get a bumper amount of cash for it.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

When the VM engineer came to install my V+ some years ago, he said he was surprised that I had both Sky and VM. I explained that I had fallen out with Sky, but had kept the box to avail myself of the FTA channels and as an emergency back up should the VM network ever go down (has happened just the once).

He said that the only places he'd ever seen both in a set up was in asian households. He explained that the pay channels on VM were better value for them (VM have a special package for asian customers), but that they needed satellite to access FTA channels or for pay boquets not available on VM. VM have a special package for asian customers.

As I say this was several years ago, so I don't know if the situation has changed or not. If VM are improving their asian packages, they may be able to get this community to cut out Sky/satellite altogether. It just goes to show that, whilst on their own, minority channels may not seem to make VM any money, they do help when the bigger picture is looked at.

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Very true. I'm surprised that VM have passively sat back and allowed Sky to erode one of their USP's in such a way.



Agreed. IIRC Sky want something like 23p per week per subscriber for SA, basic channeks usually get a matter of 1 to 3 pence. This figure sounds like nothing to obtain SA, but that 20 to 22 pence premium adds up to a significant amount out of the channel budget allocation and would set a very bad precedent.



Eh?

I rely on sources more than ever now and you guys to tell me if one of my sources rumoured channels/services did indeed launch as all my tv viewing is all on demand and catch up, it's a bugger when my net goes down though lol which luckily is very very rare with plusnet think i've had 1 outage since i been with them and that was only for 30 minutes.

[Derekb108]

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

I do, mostly Vintage TV or Magic. Sometimes I have Heat on.

I wished they would bring the Country Music Television CMT channel back loved it when Telewest had this channel...

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

I wished they would bring the Country Music Television CMT channel back loved it when Telewest had this channel...

It closed because it was losing millions of pounds, because very few people wanted to advertise with them, presumably because of low audience figures.

People in the UK generally have a dislike of country music, possibly because of some of the cheesy stuff produced in the 70s, so I guess audience figures were low.

That is a shame because the music they played was New Country, performed by people who grew up listening to 70s Rock music and traditional country, and it was as much AOR as Country; more Eagles - not Tammy Wynette!

Even when New Country was released in the UK when people like Shania Twain had some hits, it was re-mixed for the UK release, to 'de-twang' it, to try to make it less country.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

I wished they would bring the Country Music Television CMT channel back loved it when Telewest had this channel...

Indeed we too loved that channel and were disappointed when it was took off.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

FA Cup replay. Technically it may be in the wrong thread, but ultimately it will be coming soon Virgin TV, and as such Cambridge United will get a bumper amount of cash for it.

You never know, get through the replay and you might get a really big draw in the next round (Southampton permitting of course)!

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

...And if VM gave in and paid silly money, I wonder who would be the first to moan about the price hike that would go with it?

Sky are the bad guys here, not VM.

If by bad guys you mean a company who's paid a huge sum to offer its subscribers something they can't get elsewhere something every other company does , I guess its guilty as charged.

The studios don't have to take exclusive money but still do.

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

I wished they would bring the Country Music Television CMT channel back loved it when Telewest had this channel...

One of the reasons I originaly joined County Cable way back in 1993, when CMT Europe was only available via Intelsat with a huge dish, so was basically cable exclusive. The fact was it was always a loss leader. Even when it was launched on Astra & joined the Sky multichannels package, it never made any revenue. Most of the UK Cable companies dropped the service & replaced it with 'The Box' in 1996, diminishing the audience even further. The then owner Westinghouse, finally pulled the plug on CMT Europe on 31 March 1998.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by nodrogd

The then owner Westinghouse, finally pulled the plug on CMT Europe on 31 March 1998.

I remember watching the last few hours of it's broadcast on Telewest. I can't remember what the last video was though.

I thought Telewest kept it until it finally closed down in March 1998?

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by andy_m

You never know, get through the replay and you might get a really big draw in the next round (Southampton permitting of course)!

Haha, yup, I am sure your guys could give us a more difficult game.. After the first half, I thought we would beat them. For some reason, it looked we went for the draw in the second half though. Donaldson was moved into the centre and we lost our best attacking outlet. Blind could not handle him going forward in the first half. Was relieved we held out in the second half though, we sat back and let them put the pressure on us. Even at the end, we still looked we could have nicked a goal. It's the first time I have seen Man Utd play this season, they were nothing special. At least we can go all out and attack at O.T. and know we have nothing to lose. We have already got our wage bill covered for the next year!. BouncebounceAmberArmy

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by passingbat

I remember watching the last few hours of it's broadcast on Telewest. I can't remember what the last video was though.

I thought Telewest kept it until it finally closed down in March 1998?

I did say most. Certainly Bell Cablemedia & Comtel dropped it from their services in 96.

[Pster72]

Bring back MTV Classic that's what i say

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by Pster72

Bring back MTV Classic that's what i say

yes would be very good to have that back

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Pster72

Bring back MTV Classic that's what i say

110% agree! no other channel like that. instead we have a ton of generic noise channels which they apparently call modern day music...

[Pster72]

Originally Posted by Pster72

Bring back MTV Classic that's what i say

Why did they remove it in the first place anyway