General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)

[SonicMaster]

The 'press red' for Sky On Demand access has been removed, so is no longer available on Sky One, Sky Witness, Sky Arts etc. There isn't any obvious reason why, as all the on demand content from these channels remains in Catch Up & Box Sets.

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

There are pop-ups now showing regarding moves on 5th November.

PBS America moving to 273
Forces TV moving to 274
LoveNature moving to 275
Smithsonian moving to 276

Oddly not one currently on History2 HD, which must be moving as it's currently on 273.

Still no pop-up on History 2HD.

[newapollo]

Via https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019...amazon-for-uk/

In sports rights news, Amazon is reportedly eyeing a deal for La Liga rights in the UK and Ireland. That is according to La Liga president Javier Tebas who recently spoke with SportsPro.

The league’s current deal with Premier Sports is in place until the end of 2021/22, and the exec said that it includes “flexibility” for other carriage deals with regional partners including Virgin Media and Amazon.

Tebas also showed no regrets over ending the league’s long-standing relationship with Sky Sports, saying that the offer from now defunct Eleven Sports was too good to refuse. He added that the then-fledgling broadcaster was offering four times more than Sky, while Sky offered five times less than the previous year.

Premier Sports settled on a deal with La Liga in September, following months of turmoil for the league. The previous season, La Liga signed a deal with OTT platform Eleven sports, but that was abandoned after the service failed to attract enough subscribers by December. Following this, Premier Sports and ITV were handed the rights temporarily to cover the rest of the season, with Premier now being the sole La Liga rights holder in the UK.

[Media Boy UK]

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Is Comcast set to rebrand NOWTv?

Media Boy Sources feels that Comcast look set to rebrand NOWTV soon.

Media Boy HQ is sitting on naming the new name for now...

©copyright 2019 Media Boy 2006 - 2019. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Is Comcast set to rebrand NOWTv?

Media Boy Sources feels that Comcast look set to rebrand NOWTV soon.

Media Boy HQ is sitting on naming the new name for now...

©copyright 2019 Media Boy 2006 - 2019. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

They’re going to call it "SofaTV"?

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Hugh

They’re going to call it "SofaTV"?

[Media Boy UK]

Have anyone noted that after Tuesday Virgin Media will have only one space left in the "Factual Channels" (Channel 277) before "Lifestyle channels" start with Food Network on Channel 278.

If I work in the EPG office at Virgin I would axe Lifestyle and move Factual to start at Channel 260:

Factual & Lifestyle:

231. Food Network
232. Home
233. Home & Health
234. Discovery Shed
235. Travel Channel
236. Home +1
237. Home & Health +1
238. Horse + Country

260. Eden
261. Eden +1
262. Eden HD
263. Discovery Channel HD
264. Animal Planet HD
265. Discovery Channel +1
266. Discovery Science
267. Discovery Turbo
268. Discovery History
269. Discovery Channel +1
270. Animal Planet +1
271. Discovery Science +1
272. Discovery History +1
273. Nat Geo WILD
274. Nat Geo WILD HD
275. National Geographic
276. National Geographic +1
277. National Geographic HD
278. Together TV
279. HISTORY HD
280. HISTORY +1
281. HISTORY 2 HD
282. PBS America
283. Forces TV
284. Love Nature HD
285. Smithsonian Channel HD
286. God Channel

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by newapollo

Via https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019...amazon-for-uk/

In sports rights news, Amazon is reportedly eyeing a deal for La Liga rights in the UK and Ireland. That is according to La Liga president Javier Tebas who recently spoke with SportsPro.

The league’s current deal with Premier Sports is in place until the end of 2021/22, and the exec said that it includes “flexibility” for other carriage deals with regional partners including Virgin Media and Amazon.

Tebas also showed no regrets over ending the league’s long-standing relationship with Sky Sports, saying that the offer from now defunct Eleven Sports was too good to refuse. He added that the then-fledgling broadcaster was offering four times more than Sky, while Sky offered five times less than the previous year.

Premier Sports settled on a deal with La Liga in September, following months of turmoil for the league. The previous season, La Liga signed a deal with OTT platform Eleven sports, but that was abandoned after the service failed to attract enough subscribers by December. Following this, Premier Sports and ITV were handed the rights temporarily to cover the rest of the season, with Premier now being the sole La Liga rights holder in the UK.

Shhh! Don't tell Den, he will be most upset...disgusted, even!

The way towards the future, I guess. Unless jfman says otherwise, with his economics hat on, of course!

[denphone]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Shhh! Don't tell Den, he will be most upset...disgusted, even!

The way towards the future, I guess. Unless jfman says otherwise, with his economics hat on, of course!

Well La Liga president Javier Tebas has not exactly got a great track record in making the right decision as his now defunct Eleven Sports deal was a clear and unmitigated disaster from start to finish which he had clear and prior warning about but when one chases the false rainbow one inevitably comes unstuck.

Now only one man and his dog watches it when at least when it was on Sky Sports it was getting far more coverage and a far superior coverage.

Amazon well we have been there before with your much heralded Nostradamus predictions if my poor memory serves me right and there l will end it as sadly that chapter did not end well and l do like to finish my book with a good ending.

[cheekyangus]

JJ20X on Forumbox has said the following have "Changes to channel codes and subscription packs".

Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, Nick Jr Too, Nick Junior, Nick +1, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon, Turner Classic Movies.

As I'm on the Fun tier I could already get all but one of these, so I can only confirm Nick Jr Too has changed, but not which tiers except Fun.

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Actually as an old channel guide confirms Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and Turner Classic Movies were already on Mix, so unless they have been made available on Player/Mixit, which is unlikely, I doubt anything visible to the average customer has happened with regards to them.

So the obvious changes to most will be the Nick channels, which should be on Mix now.

[SonicMaster]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

JJ20X on Forumbox has said the following have "Changes to channel codes and subscription packs".

Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, Nick Jr Too, Nick Junior, Nick +1, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon, Turner Classic Movies.

As I'm on the Fun tier I could already get all but one of these, so I can only confirm Nick Jr Too has changed, but not which tiers except Fun.

---------- Post added at 09:20 ---------- Previous post was at 09:08 ----------

Actually as an old channel guide confirms Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and Turner Classic Movies were already on Mix, so unless they have been made available on Player/Mixit, which is unlikely, I doubt anything visible to the average customer has happened with regards to them.

So the obvious changes to most will be the Nick channels, which should be on Mix now.

I can confirm that Nickelodeon, Nick +1, Nick Jr, Nick Jr Too and Nicktoons are now available in Mix TV.

Box Upfront is now BoXmas

[Legendkiller2k]

Originally Posted by Hugh

They’re going to call it "SofaTV"?

Funny you said this as a couple of years ago there was going to be a movie channel called blue sofa tv, it didn't get to launch though.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well La Liga president Javier Tebas has not exactly got a great track record in making the right decision as his now defunct Eleven Sports deal was a clear and unmitigated disaster from start to finish which he had clear and prior warning about but when one chases the false rainbow one inevitably comes unstuck.

Now only one man and his dog watches it when at least when it was on Sky Sports it was getting far more coverage and a far superior coverage.

Amazon well we have been there before with your much heralded Nostradamus predictions if my poor memory serves me right and there l will end it as sadly that chapter did not end well and l do like to finish my book with a good ending.

Aye La liga had a good thing with sky sports and now they have a lot less eyes on their competition on a third rate channel like premier sports.

I think amazon probably would have more subscribers on prime than premier sports so they probably should have gone with sky sports, BT or amazon in that order! Instead its...premier sports.

La liga popularity over here is being ruined! Such a shame too as it was most peoples second favourite league. They really shot themselves in the foot!

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Aye La liga had a good thing with sky sports and now they have a lot less eyes on their competition on a third rate channel like premier sports.

I think amazon probably would have more subscribers on prime than premier sports so they probably should have gone with sky sports, BT or amazon in that order! Instead its...premier sports.

La liga popularity over here is being ruined! Such a shame too as it was most peoples second favourite league. They really shot themselves in the foot!

Well I've seen more La Liga than ever before because it's on Freesports several times a week. I saw no full matches previously. I appreciate it's not the same, but having some Free-To-Air is going to bring new eyes to it.

[Horsegirlbusmad]

At more news on channels like Nick if Hd,Nick if + 1, 5 spike + 1,comedy central extra + 1?
Any more news if we are going to get the following channel's

Disney channel hd
Disney Dx Hd
Disney junior hd
Disney junior + 1
Disney xd + 1
Tiny pop+1,
Pop +1
Pop max
Pop max +1
Boomerang hd
CNN hd