General Coming soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 6. - Page 62

Media Boy UK · 08-12-2013, 20:55

December List update - December 8th update.

Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches and other important events across all platforms of Virgin TV network.

NOTE: I DO NOT WORK FOR VIRGIN MEDIA SO ALL THE INFORMATION ON THIS LIST IS STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Colours on my list are as followed:

Media Boy = New Info just added.
Media Boy = Virgin Media News and links.
Media Boy = Other Media news/Things.

=== Coming up on Virgin's Digital TV ===
=== Freeviews on Virgin Media ===
Sep. 3rd. CBS Reality, Horror Channel, CBS Action, CBS Drama, CBS Reality +1 and Horror Channel +1 is having an freeview to all M+ and L packages on Virgin Channels 148, 149, 192, 197, 201 and 202 right now until January 3rd 2014.
Oct. 25th. Premier Sports is having an freeview to all M, M+, L and XL packages on Virgin Channel 551 right now until January 3rd 2014.
Dec. 6th. Watch, Watch +1, Gold, Gold +1, Alibi, Alibi +1, Watch HD, Dave HD, Alibi HD, Eden, Eden +1, Eden HD, Good Food, Good Food +1, Good Food HD, Home and Home +1 is having an freeview to all Customers on Virgin Channels 124, 125, 126, 127, 130, 131, 191, 194, 200, 208, 209, 210, 260, 261, 262, 265 and 266 right now untill January 3rd 2014.

=== December ===
9th. Style Network to close on Virgin Channel 285 at 6am today.
10th. CBeebies HD to launch today at 6am on Virgin Channel 711.
10th. CBBC HD to launch today at 7am on Virgin Channel 710.
10th. BBC News HD to launch today at 8.30am on Virgin Channel 604.
10th. BBC Three HD to launch today at 7pm on Virgin Channel 163.
10th. BBC Four HD to launch today at 7pm on Virgin Channel 164.
10th. BBC ALBA will move from Virgin Channel 188 to Virgin Channel 161.
10th. BBC Two HD will move from Virgin Channel 187 to Virgin Channel 162.
10th. BBC Parliament will move from Virgin Channel 612 to Virgin Channel 605.
16th. Media Boy to reveal 'Best of' 2013 winners only on Cable Forum.
17th. Media Boy to reveal the posters of all the 'Coming Soon to Virgin TV' thread today only on Cable Forum (Poll closes at midday on December 16th).

=== January 2014 ===
1st. Sky Movies Christmas to be rebrand as Sky Movies Drama and Romance on Virgin Channel 408.
1st. Sky Movies Christmas HD to be rebrand as Sky Movies Drama and Romance HD on Virgin Channel 438.
4th. Christmas 24 and Christmas 24 + will be rebranded as Movies 24 and Movies 24 + on Virgin Channels 419 and 420.
6th. Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 1 launches on Cable Forum.
True Christmas will be rebranded as True Movies 1 on Virgin Channel 424 sometime this month.
Nick Jr. Christmas to be rebrand as Nick Jr. on Virgin Channel 715 sometime this month.

=== February 2014 ===
1st. Virgin Media to put some prices up from today.
27th. Local TV broadcaster Made in Leeds hope to launch today on Virgin Channel 159.

=== March 2014 ===
6th. Local TV broadcaster London Live hope to launch on Virgin Channel 159 today.

=== April 2014 ===
No News...

=== May 2014 ===
No News...

=== June 2014 ===
No News...

=== July 2014 ===
No News...

=== August 2014 ===
No News...

=== September 2014 ===
No News...

=== October 2014 ===
No News...

=== November 2014 ===
No News...

=== December 2014 ===
No News...

=== Not Confirmed as coming ===
-(UPDATED September 13th) Broadcastnow is reporting that Virgin Media are in new talks with Sky to carry 'Sky Atlantic SD' plus more.

=== Unknown dates ===
-News 18 will soon launch on Virgin Media.
-Sky to close Sky Arts 2 to launch Sky Bravo?
-The BBC will launch an BBC One +1 Channel.
-Local TV may launch on Virgin TV in some areas on Virgin Channel 159 (Starting in Late 2013).
-The BBC to axe BBC Radio 4 LW on Virgin Channel 911 ''in the long term''.
-The BBC hope to launch English regional variants of its existing BBC One HD service as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland editions of BBC Two HD - but still need to be approved by the BBC Trust.

=== Channels ONLY in UPC Ireland areas ===
List last updated on October 1st 2013.

ONLY TV CHANNELS THAT ONLY BROADCAST IN THE UK WILL APPEAR ON THIS PART OF THE LIST OF MISSING CHANNELS NOT BROADCASTING IN VIRGIN MEDIA AREAS RIGHT NOW BUT IS BROADCASTING ON UPC IRELAND:

Documentaries:
-History HD
-Nat Geo Wild HD
-CI HD

News:
-Sky News HD

Movies:
-MGM HD

Sports:
-Sky Sports News HD

Lifestyle:
-Fashion TV

Kids:
-Disney Channel HD

Music:
-MTV Classic

Specialist:
-EWTN

Radio:
-UCB Ireland

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=== Media Boy Extra info: ===
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Media Boy Blog - For all things Virgin TV - http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.com/
See Virgin Media on ''twitter'' here - http://twitter.com/virginmedia
See Nialli's blog on Virgin Media High Definition & TiVo Services here - http://vmhd.blogspot.com/

==== Virgin Media's Deals with broadcasters ===
This part has now move to link called 'Own by'.

==== See you later ===
List last updated on December 8th 2013.

Next update: TBC - unless:

A) If Virgin are set to launch more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) on Virgin TV.
B) If Virgin are set to move more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) about on Virgin TV.
C) If Virgin are set to close or repackage more then TWO channels (TV or Radio ) on Virgin TV.

Did I miss anything??? If I did tell me and it will appear on the next update.

©copyright 2013 Media Boy 2006 - 2013. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

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paultrademark · 08-12-2013, 21:37

Twice in 3 hours really?

Media Boy UK · 08-12-2013, 21:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by paultrademark

Twice in 3 hours really?

Just updating with an new end date for all Freeviews on Virgin Media information on the CBS Channels and Premier Sports.

paultrademark · 08-12-2013, 23:55

There's an edit button :-)

MaverickJesus · 08-12-2013, 23:59

My favourite part of the year was when we got Sky Atlantic.

Media Boy UK · 09-12-2013, 00:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by paultrademark

There's an edit button :-)

Only works for two hours.

ocav · 09-12-2013, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaverickJesus

My favourite part of the year was when we got Sky Atlantic.

Got it Friday. Only watched one film on it. Not worth the fuss tbh.

harry_hitch · 09-12-2013, 01:10

Cheers for keeping us updated MB. Much appreciated. :-)

paultrademark · 09-12-2013, 01:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Only works for two hours.

Fair enough, seems a bit of a daft feature though.

denphone · 09-12-2013, 07:37

Thank MB for your excellent updates but alas you can't keep the grumpies happy for long.

MutleyF · 09-12-2013, 08:43

Never fails to amuse me. All you have to do is scroll past the post you dont want to see. Takes considerably less time than it does to make a post here !

braysoj1 · 09-12-2013, 10:04

confirmed http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...-channels.html

The BBC today announced it will launch five new subscription-free HD channels on Tuesday 10 December

andy_m · 09-12-2013, 10:16

So is that a cheaper option than just having BBC one hd and putting the best of the rest on the BBC hd channel?

jobbie8 · 09-12-2013, 11:32

Flicking through the news channels this morning, at 10am the Virgin Coming Soon slate changed to a BBC slate in HD.

vincerooney · 09-12-2013, 12:00

Morning friends. Hope the weekend was satisfying for you all! Woke up this morning and all my systems were down. Utterly tragic! I hope its fixed before i get home from work. I usually just get that its a fault but today on the service status message its saying

"We're doing some essential work on our network at the moment to make sure we're always giving you the best service possible. We'll keep any disruption to a minimum, but services in some areas might be affected temporarily. "

What does that actually mean...what is essential work?? I hope i come home to faster internet or something...