General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Now we know why Sky Sports News is on Virgin Channel 501.

Sky Sports News to get new onscreen look from August.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...s-star-3897575

Lol, what delicious irony. Sky Sports News being moved to Sky channel 401. Who would have thought? Looks like Sky and their wonderful channel listings have become just as stupid as VMs. Guess we do indeed now know why VM have done it, looks like Sky wanted them to.

Cheers for the news MB, this will keep me chuckling for a long, long time.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Now we know why Sky Sports News is on Virgin Channel 501.

Sky Sports News to get new onscreen look from August.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...s-star-3897575

any more news on HD launch on VM MB

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Dave42

any more news on HD launch on VM MB

l would say early next year Dave from what l have heard but don't bet on it.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by anm12

Can we start a petition to not have this channel anything that would remove the only way is essex has got to get loads of support

haha sounds like a good idea, but it could be a channel to keep the women quiet for a few hours a night....ooops very sexist, sorry ladies

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It depends on the channel involved. Some, such as the shopping channels, pay to be on VM, some are cost neutral, such as the the BBC channels and some are paid by VM to be on the system, such as Discovery.

Again, the reasons why particular HD variants are missing vary. The channel may be in a contractual agreement to be exclusive on one particular platform for a length of time, such as ITV Encore HD, the channel owner may be literally or effectively refusing to allow VM access due to unreasonable carriage costs charged eg Sky Atlantic HD or it may be that both parties cannot agree carriage terms for a whole variety of reasons (including financial viability) eg MUTV HD.

AFAIK, VM don't have any bandwidth constraints that are preventing them launching any new channels as they have been upgrading their network behind the scenes.

Morning All,

Thanks for the insight Richard.
Be interesting to see which part of that spectrum the non-high profile HD variants sit.

Hope VM can secure these one day. Would improve their already vastly improved TV service that little bit more.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by Dave42

any more news on HD launch on VM MB

Been given Spring 2015.

[zantarous]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

Here I found this PDF on an open sourced site Github https://github.com/kulick/wwx2014/bl...4.pdf?raw=true

Enjoy

Very good find looks like a internal document.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by zantarous

Very good find looks like a internal document.

It's definitely a presentation for someone...amazing little find.

I did see about recording 6 shows, that would be amazing :-)

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Dave42

any more news on HD launch on VM MB

Base on info from July 3rd - Early 2015 with Sky News HD also launching.

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Update on last night story:

Sky Sports News will become known as Sky Sports News HQ from August 12th.

Here we go again Sky Sports News was called Sky Sports News.com some years back for about an year.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Base on info from July 3rd - Early 2015 with Sky News HD also launching.

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Update on last night story:

Sky Sports News will become known as Sky Sports News HQ from August 12th.

Here we go again Sky Sports News was called Sky Sports News.com some years back for about an year.

I've seen a similar article, MB. There was a photo of Kirsty Gallagher with Sky Sports News HQ logo behind her.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/07/sky-rebranding-its-man-channel-as-sky-sports-news-hq-from-august-12th

All to do with a major revamp.

[dazed&confused]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

They can keep all that garbage

Sorry - wasn't on yesterday +7 and +8
Misses wanted to vote too

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Now we know why Sky Sports News is on Virgin Channel 501.

Sky Sports News to get new onscreen look from August.

Quote:
To mark the significance of the new launch next month Sky Sports News will move from channel 405 to 401.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/s...s-star-3897575

Good grief! If a channel number change from 405 to 401 is a headline change, the new studio will have been hyped up to be something it really is not!

I've heard everything now!

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Originally Posted by Bananaman_007

ITV have had to do some re-gigging since Encore launched and with the launch of BE coming. Looks like ITV2 is going to be more comedy focused with ITV 3 becoming more general. We are already seeing that with them showing Long Lost Family, Love Your Garden, Dickinson's Real Deal and the soap omnibus showings on ITV3 now.

I fully expect Big Brother to show up on ITV Be. Viacom have already said they are committed to upping the quality of shows on Channel5 and have given them a sizable budget to do so. The rights are up for grabs after the next celeb series and it has been proven that it can hold an audience of between 1-2 million for the non celb shows and 2-4million for the celeb ones. Any show getting that on ITV Be i am sure they would be extremely happy.

It will be interesting to see what ITV show on ITV2. The shows they have bought in Mom, Dads, TVOD, Viral Tap have all been quite poor

If this is true, I am disappointed. To my mind, they should be using ITV2 for the best repeated programmes of the week, new original programming, films and perhaps some older stuff thrown in. It should continue to be regarded as their second main channel. If it's going to become another 'Comedy Central' then that is a big waste of an opportunity to improve ITV's reputation.

ITV 3 should continue to show dramas, most of them of the older variety from 3+ years ago is fine (I watched Jericho on ITV 3 and thoroughly enjoyed it), and ITV 4 could be used for programmes of other genres such as sport.

The way things are going, ITV1 and ITV Encore will be the only channels ever used in our household (although ITV Be might be of interest to my wife!).

[vincerooney]

Why are itv launching two more channels then the quality of itv 2-4 is so poor.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Why are itv launching two more channels then the quality of itv 2-4 is so poor.

The sad fact is that the majority of the British people are content to watch hours and hours of bilge. You can't blame the TV companies for capitalising on this as such programmes are a lot cheaper to make and to purchese.

However, you would have thought the likes of ITV would have more self respect than to reduce all its channels except ITV1 and ITV Encore to this level of bad taste.

[nicknewark]

I think if you took out all the TV that is rubbish, we wouldn't Need 3/4 of the channels available.

[harry_hitch]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

Here I found this PDF on an open sourced site Github https://github.com/kulick/wwx2014/bl...4.pdf?raw=true

Enjoy

Good find sir. Shame I did not understand half the stuff that was written the presentation.