Virgin Media News - Page 11

Wiciu · 19-02-2007, 00:01

not any hope for some HD channels?

wwe · 19-02-2007, 01:34

are there any new channels coming to virgin media

Media Boy · 19-02-2007, 10:42

BSkyB bullish about NTL threat

I found this on The Guardian web site from Wednesday January 31, 2007.

The BSkyB chief executive, James Murdoch, shrugged off the threat posed by the rebrand of rival NTL as Virgin Media, saying the satellite broadcaster offers better quality and better prices than cable can muster.

Virgin Media will launch - presumably accompanied by one of Sir Richard Branson's trademark stunts - next Thursday.

Speaking after Sky announced a mixed set of half-year results, James Murdoch said:

Quote:

"I think there will be a huge amount of noise ... but basically customers are pretty smart and when you look at what we are doing in the market place today ... you can get [from us] a dramatically better quality TV, broadband and telephony experience than you can from Virgin."
"We are very confident that the product we have is of better quality, in terms of TV and broadband and telephony,"

he added, stressing that Sky is also currently the only high definition TV broadcaster in the UK.

The BSkyB chief financial officer, Jeremy Darroch, was rather more blunt:

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"The bottom line is we don't think a name change affects the fundamental issues they [Virgin Media] still have around product development, customer service and pricing flexibility and we think customers will see that."

Media Boy · 20-02-2007, 14:31

Discovery RealTime +1 (272) and Extra (274) arriving soon, I think on the day Wings rebrands to Turbo. We may also be getting Discovery HD by this date

grabbi · 20-02-2007, 19:29

Discovery HD: Bet that looks nice...

Media Boy · 21-02-2007, 20:19

Did you know:

Sky USED to own 50% of Eurosport in 1989 Before Sky & BSB becomes BSkyB in 1991 then they sold their 50% back to Eurosport then Screensport BUYS them then Renames back to Eurosport.

Media Boy · 22-02-2007, 14:26

I just seen this on an friend TV.

According to the BSkyB's EPG, Discovery Kids (721) closes down at 6pm on Wednesday 28th February. The '..programmes no longer available' message is displayed in the listings after this time.

mertle · 22-02-2007, 16:34

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Originally Posted by TV Boy

BSkyB bullish about NTL threat

I found this on The Guardian web site from Wednesday January 31, 2007.

The BSkyB chief executive, James Murdoch, shrugged off the threat posed by the rebrand of rival NTL as Virgin Media, saying the satellite broadcaster offers better quality and better prices than cable can muster.

Virgin Media will launch - presumably accompanied by one of Sir Richard Branson's trademark stunts - next Thursday.

Speaking after Sky announced a mixed set of half-year results, James Murdoch said:

he added, stressing that Sky is also currently the only high definition TV broadcaster in the UK.

The BSkyB chief financial officer, Jeremy Darroch, was rather more blunt:

Sounds like SKY stuck up in its own ego. They are really in for a shock to the system. I still maintain in 10 years SKY will be down to possible 3-4 million customers who are hardcore satalite enthusiasts. Maybe murdock knows this hence trying to mussle into getting sky through an aerial. satellite technology has too many flaws and will be needing upgrades at staggering costs. God knows how old astra system is and the costs to put a new one up. I really believe SKY realising issues with there technology and looking at ways to move from Satelite. Maybe in a quirky twist in the future SKY will want to hire cable bandwidth from virgin media to pipe to its customers. Just end up being a production company.

Media Boy · 22-02-2007, 20:42

In an email I got from Wedding TV tonight they said:

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Hi TV Boy,

We hope to launch on Virgin Media in the near future!

Wedding TV

Media Boy · 26-02-2007, 12:05

I found on Sky.com.

Virgin Media currently carries Sky One, Sky Two, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Travel and Sky Travel Extra. In addition, We're has offered carriage Sky Arts (formerly Artsworld), Sky Three, Sky Travel +1 and Sky Travel Shop.

Media Boy · 29-03-2007, 21:03

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Whats on tv has listings for 31 march - 6 april 2007 for sky one on cable channel 120.

From Digital Spy.

I buy this book every week and I can confrim that they have been telling everyone who buy that TV Book that the Sky Basic Channels is on Virgin Media.

sstainer · 29-03-2007, 21:43

how would they know tv mags are normally produced weeks in advanced reason for some errors in them

m.massey · 29-03-2007, 21:51

it be better when virgin media bring out they mag

Media Boy · 04-04-2007, 13:55

UKTV Gold bounces back with Â£10m new look

UKTV Gold unveiled its new on-air identity this morning which uses a 1970s classic to show the channel is "going back to its roots."

Launching tomorrow, the 12 new idents, produced by creative agency Karmarama, show policemen and Vikings bouncing around on gold UKTV spacehoppers.

A world-record breaking spacehopper attempt will take place on April 15 at London's Millennium Bridge to promote the new look.

More infomation here...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...-new-look.html

Info from Digital Spy.

Media Boy · 04-04-2007, 20:42

The following Information is from Jasmeet
Eurosport News - probably for ch526.

It's a sports news channel from Eurosport that had previously been on cable but was replaced by Eurosport 2 (It still appears at night similar to how News 24 appears on BBC 1), presumably it's been added again as a replacement for Sky Sports News.

Thanks for the Information.