Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
02-06-2019, 23:04
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Aguero9320
I feel that:
Really will be folded into Quest Red and TLC.
Home and Discovery Shed will both merge together to form HGTV UK
Good Food and Food Network will begin sharing shows as well as seeing more US imports from the Cooking Channel, FN’s American sister channel.
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Freeview may get Travel Channel back if Really fold into Quest Red and TLC happen.
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02-06-2019, 23:16
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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The UKTV takeover will happen by Summer 2019 - within the next month or so.
BBC is NOT takeover UKTV it BBC Studios (The spin-off of The BBC to sell BBC programme and own BBC Channels out side the UK.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Studios
We may see UKTV moving to new channels numbers when it happen.
We feel Discovery may axe some channels as they will own
Discovery Channel
Animal Planet
Discovery History
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Science
Discovery Shed
Discovery Turbo
DMAX
Investigation Discovery
Quest
Quest Red
TLC
Food Network
Travel Channel
Good Food
Home
Really
And that before all the +1 Channels and HD Channels.
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Very informative! Thanks MB
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02-06-2019, 23:53
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Err, so who OWNS and finances BBC Studios?
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The whole point of BBC Worldwide, which was folded into BBC Studios, was to make money to add to the money the BBC gets from the Licence Fee, so it's doing the financing of the wider BBC, the BBC isn't funding it.
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Freeview may get Travel Channel back if Really fold into Quest Red and TLC happen.
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According to BARB ratings Quest Red had a 0.48 share of total viewing in April 2019, TLC had 0.21 and Really had 0.64.
Of course TLC is a Pay channel so the money from that would offset the lower ratings to an extent.
DMAX, which replaced Travel Channel on Freeview in January (and went FTA on Freesat at the same time) had a 0.34 rating in April. DMAX had 0.03 in the last month before the change. Travel Channel had 0.32 rating in the month before the change and was 0.03 in April.
Given Really is higher rating than Quest Red I don't see them closing it. And Quest Red is higher rating than Travel Channel before it left Freeview, so why remove that? They aren't just going to do it because they are similar and Travel Channel being different would widen the genre choice, money will dictate that, and larger ratings probably mean the similar channels make more money for them.
Having said that I'd like Travel Channel to return to Freeview.
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04-06-2019, 12:41
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
In the Ofcom monthy update:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/update:
Omnidirectional has noticed that a new satellite/cable licence has been awarded for Made in Teeside, which is odd as the channels are no longer called 'Made' and only broadcast a single national service on satellite.
Is there a local channel on VM in Teeside?
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04-06-2019, 14:22
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Is there a local channel on VM in Teeside?
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Yes.
Virgin Media DO carry the following local Channels (as far as we know):
London Live,
Notts TV,
Latest TV,
Sheffield Live TV,
NVTV (Belfast),
Made in Bristol,
Cardiff TV,
Leeds TV,
Tyne and Wear TV,
Liverpool TV,
That's TV Norfolk,
Birmingham TV,
That's TV Cambridge,
That's TV Swansea Bay,
Teesside TV,
KMTV (Kent) and
That's TV Humber (Grimsby).
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04-06-2019, 17:35
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Yes.
Virgin Media DO carry the following local Channels (as far as we know):
London Live,
Notts TV,
Latest TV,
Sheffield Live TV,
NVTV (Belfast),
Made in Bristol,
Cardiff TV,
Leeds TV,
Tyne and Wear TV,
Liverpool TV,
That's TV Norfolk,
Birmingham TV,
That's TV Cambridge,
That's TV Swansea Bay,
Teesside TV,
KMTV (Kent) and
That's TV Humber (Grimsby).
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Thanks MB, it seems odd then that a new licence has been awarded for the same service under it's old name!?
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04-06-2019, 17:45
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Thanks MB, it seems odd then that a new licence has been awarded for the same service under it's old name!?
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You will also find that Discovery has also got an new licence for DMAX (UK 2)
Plus you link is not working - this one is: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your...cences/updates
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04-06-2019, 19:28
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Yes.
Virgin Media DO carry the following local Channels (as far as we know):
London Live,
Notts TV,
Latest TV,
Sheffield Live TV,
NVTV (Belfast),
Made in Bristol,
Cardiff TV,
Leeds TV,
Tyne and Wear TV,
Liverpool TV,
That's TV Norfolk,
Birmingham TV,
That's TV Cambridge,
That's TV Swansea Bay,
Teesside TV,
KMTV (Kent) and
That's TV Humber (Grimsby).
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But not That's TV Scotland....
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04-06-2019, 19:32
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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But not That's TV Scotland....
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Channel 159 was removed when STV 2 was axe last summer in Scotland.
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04-06-2019, 19:34
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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But not That's TV Scotland....
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I'm guessing the STV2 contract with VM expired before That's Scotland launched and wasn't transferred to That's.
There was a period between STV2 closing, STV selling to That's and That's actually launching where all That's Scotland showed was a Coming Soon screen on Freeview.
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04-06-2019, 19:35
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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I'm guessing the STV2 contract with VM expired before That's Scotland launched and wasn't transferred to That's.
There was a period between STV2 closing, STV selling to That's and That's actually launching where all That's Scotland showed was a Coming Soon screen on Freeview.
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I forgot to add Virgin Media did remove STV2 an day early.
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05-06-2019, 08:05
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Thanks MB, it seems odd then that a new licence has been awarded for the same service under it's old name!?
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Maybe they have revised the conditions under which the channel operates.
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06-06-2019, 18:14
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
@RichardCoulter
Over the past week We have found that Virgin Media has axe an "TS Streams" by one.
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06-06-2019, 21:39
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
Steady Media Boy you could get reported in your own thread - the amount of gaps in the frequency plan (and where they are!) aren't appropriate to the Coming Soon thread as I was told when I introduced this line of chat.
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10-06-2019, 17:22
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