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

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

But Virgin may end it early.

Why do you say that?

[trevrpb]

Originally Posted by Horizon

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In my area 20+ years ago when cable tv started.l...

Not sure if you mean Cable TV only started back then or just in your area. But I can safely say Cable TV was available many many years ago. My parents had cable tv back in West London in the 70's. I believe someone has mentioned Rediffusion TV were the company that provided ours, although it was only the 3 channels at the time, BBC1, 2 and ITV(porb known as ATV back then)



TrevP

[blue666666]

Will we get place holders for skysports 5 on Tuesday?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by blue666666

Will we get place holders for skysports 5 on Tuesday?

As far as l know it will just come straight on the TV on the 12th.

[blue666666]

link http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1996100
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brendagoats
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Delay in getting Tru TV, because of negotiations getting extra CNN channels.
.............. Like CNN America and CNN HD

Would be nice to think it will happen, but no idea if true anybody here heard anything?

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by steveh

Cable operators also had a statutory requirement to provide a local television channel, but this was dropped at some point in the nineties around the time of the big mergers.

Bell Cablemedia in East London had a scrolling information service filled with out-of-date information then for one week a year they would put out some programmes just to fulfil the legal requirements.

I never knew that! You learn something everyday

Originally Posted by telegramsam

I can remember when I was young we had Redifusion cable tv and they would flash any news from the area which needed the local people to know,i.e a flood warning.

Was this in vision or audiably? I have heard of cable companies in the past making eg flood warning announcements on top of the TV audio.

Would they do this today? Do they still have the technical capability to do so after years of consolidation?

Originally Posted by Helix

I remember on CableTel and NTL Analogue, they used to cut away from the normal adverts on channels like Nickelodeon and showed really low budget local adverts. I don't know how they were allowed to do it really as I would have thought the normal advertisers on these channels would get annoyed unless they only paid for their adverts to be shown on Sky.

Yes, I often wondered that too. Did they only do this on channels that they owned? Didn't Telewest end up with the formerly United Artists owned channels? Obviously these channels ended up being owned by VM who sold them off to Sky.

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Why do you say that?

ISTR that previous freeview periods on VM have either not happened or have started and/or ended early. The reasons given at the time were that amending the encryption was much more problematic for cable than satellite.

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I never knew that! You learn something everyday



Was this in vision or audiably? I have heard of cable companies in the past making eg flood warning announcements on top of the TV audio.

Would they do this today? Do they still have the technical capability to do so after years of consolidation?



Yes, I often wondered that too. Did they only do this on channels that they owned? Didn't Telewest end up with the formerly United Artists owned channels? Obviously these channels ended up being owned by VM who sold them off to Sky.



ISTR that previous freeview periods on VM have either not happened or have started and/or ended early. The reasons given at the time were that amending the encryption was much more problematic for cable than satellite.

It was a on-screen banner across the bottom of the screen if my memory serves me correct.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by blue666666

link http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1996100
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brendagoats
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Delay in getting Tru TV, because of negotiations getting extra CNN channels.
.............. Like CNN America and CNN HD

Would be nice to think it will happen, but no idea if true anybody here heard anything?

First i've heard of it mate, however it could be a posibilty though.

[vincerooney]

Don't we already get CNN?

[blue666666]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Don't we already get CNN?

We have CNN euro not CNN America also its not HD

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by blue666666

We have CNN euro not CNN America also its not HD

Ah good I like the sound of that. Now if we can complete the overdramatic American news with the hilarious Fox News I'm sorted

Maybe then the next fox contract comes up...

[Aguero9320]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Ah good I like the sound of that. Now if we can complete the overdramatic American news with the hilarious Fox News I'm sorted

Maybe then the next fox contract comes up...

Hahaha! FOX News: I just love comedy.

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I was so looking forward to seeing TruTV on Virgin Media. I had a look at Redneck Island on a relative's TV (who has Freeview) and it does look rather interesting: let me tell you.

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

Hahaha! FOX News: interesting: let me tell you.

Find it to left wing for my taste

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by blue666666

We have CNN euro not CNN America also its not HD

Been speaking to a couple of sources, all have said CNNHD or other CNN channels have absolutely nothing at all to do with TRUtv not launching on Virgin.
The word "money" is a better thought.

[blue666666]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Been speaking to a couple of sources, all have said CNNHD or other CNN channels have absolutely nothing at all to do with TRUtv not launching on Virgin.
The word "money" is a better thought.

Well, I am not surprised by this am sure they have lots of other channels too