Virgin Media News

[grabbi]

Wonder if Sky will include the price of a MUST HAVE BT landline Line Rental?



I think that is something that should be addressed by Ofcom too!

[Media Boy]

I have been told that Virgin Media will be announcing its Second Quarter 2007 results on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 9am UK time,

[Media Boy]

Virgin will drop its mobile TV service after less than a year, according to the Guardian.

BT and GCap are set to end their involvement with mobile phone operator's TV project after fewer than 10,000 mobile TV handsets were sold by the start of 2007.

Despite a £2.5 million advertising campaign that featured Pamela Anderson, the five-channel service failed to entice viewers.

Critics of the service blamed the lack of interest on the bulky handset that viewers needed to view the channels, and the absence of any bespoke programming.

Marketing director at mobile TV group ROK Entertainment, Bruce Renny, said: "Why pay a subscription fee to receive the same TV content on your mobile that you already get at home? Particularly when people don't watch TV on mobiles for more than a few minutes at a time.

"To be commercially successful, you have to provide a combination of live news, sports updates and video-on-demand, made-for-mobile content which is instantly engaging. Simply broadcasting linear TV to mobiles is not the answer."

Info from the Guardian.

[tweetypie/8]

Originally Posted by TV Boy

1) Challange +1 is coming to the ex-Telewest viewers on Thursday and will have EPG Channel 153.

2) THE following channels will be appearing on NTL from Thursday:

Bravo2 on channel 139
( NTL Telewest moving this channel on the old Telewest Network soon. )

Trouble+1 on ch 141

UKTV History +1 on ch204

UKTV Food +1 on ch261

UKTV Documentary+1 on ch226

3) Bad News for Golf fans NTL Telewest are moving Setanta Golf to their new 'Setanta Sports Package' from this Thursday.

you are doing a great job tv boy keeping us up to date with whats going on with vm thanks for your time and effort you put into your posts

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Originally Posted by TV Boy

NTL Telewest Late Update:

Channels moving package on NTL:

Discovery Channel - moving from TV Size: L to Starter TV

Discovery Channel +1 - moving from TV Size: XL to TV Size: L

Animal Planet - moving from TV Size: XL to TV Size: L

Discovery Realtime - moving from TV Size: XL to Starter TV

Discovery Travel & Living - moving from TV Size: L to TV Size: XL

Discovery Home & Health - moving from TV Size: XL to TV Size: L

God Channel - changing from add-on channel to package channel in TV Size: L

Film4 +1 - moving from Starter TV to TV Size: L

CNN International - moving from TV Size: L to Starter TV

Euronews - moving from TV Size: L to Starter TV

Speed Auction TV - moving from TV Size: L to TV Size: M

Channels being removed:

Thane Direct - no longer available (being removed from TV Size: L)

Thane - no longer available (being removed from TV Size: L)

Knowsley (ex-Telewest) changes:

Channels moving package:

Discovery Channel - moving from TV Size: L to Starter TV

Discovery Channel + 1 - moving from TV Size: XL to TV Size: L

Discovery Realtime - moving from TV Size: L to Starter TV

The Box - moving from TV Size: L to TV Size: XL

Jetix - moving from TV Size: L to TV Size: XL

all from 7am Tomorrow.

[Info from Digital Spy.]

what a guy !! you are a class act thank you

[gadge]

Originally Posted by tweetypie/8

you are doing a great job tv boy keeping us up to date with whats going on with vm thanks for your time and effort you put into your posts

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what a guy !! you are a class act thank you

Is this all for this week comeing?

[havaska]

That was posted in January and it still has not happened yet. I don't doubt that it will happen, but for some reason VM are still messing around. You'd expect them to be able to get their own channels to their own customers pretty quickly, not 6 months later

[Media Boy]

Originally Posted by havaska

That was posted in January and it still has not happened yet. I don't doubt that it will happen, but for some reason VM are still messing around. You'd expect them to be able to get their own channels to their own customers pretty quickly, not 6 months later

That was the info I got from an Ex-insider in January but my new insider told me last week that Virgin are hoping to do the following by the end of THIS year:

-Have the same EPG Channel lineup on both lineups. [RE: UKTV Drama on Virgin Channel 129/147 ]

-Have the same TV & Radio Channels on both lineups.

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The following channels may close on Ex-NTL


epg Channel Name
143 More4 +1
153 Challenge +1
231 National Geographic +1
235 History Channel +1
345 Bliss
347 Scuzz
348 Flaunt
350 Classic FM TV
545 Motors TV
350 Zee Music
833 PCNE Chinese
863 BBC One Northern Ireland
864 BBC One Wales
921 Radio: The Arrow
926 Radio: Fun Radio
928 Radio: Magic Radio
929 Radio: Q Radio
931 Radio: BBC Radio Wales
932 Radio: BBC Radio Ulster
936 Radio: BBC Radio Cymru
962 Radio: The Hits Radio
963 Radio: Kiss 100
964 Radio: Kerrang!
966 Radio: Smash Hits!
967 Radio: Oneword

May close on Ex-Telewest:
epg Channel Name
209 UKTV Documentary +1 [ Testing on Ex-NTL Boxes ]
261 UKTV Food +1 [ Testing on Ex-NTL Boxes ]
830 Deutsche Welle
832 Leonardo
911 Radio: BBC Radio 4 LW
917 Radio: RTE Radio 1
920 Radio: WRN Europe
951 Radio: Virgin Radio Xtreme*
952 Radio: Virgin Radio Classic Rock*
953 Radio: Virgin Radio Groove*

* = Virgin Radio are own by Scottish Media Group [ SMG ] not Virgin Media.

Last update 28th of July.

[havaska]

I'd expect Challenge +1 to appear on ex TW and all the missing UKTV to appear on both networks.
I would also expect More 4+1 to appear along with the new Ch4+1 (they are under negotiation).

As for the other channels, you may be right they may just disappear. We'll find out in due time.

[huxleypiguk]

Don't mind +1 channels going, but Classic FM TV and Motors TV are the two I watch the most. As for chopping everything Welsh, can't see the Assembly allowing that !!!!

[busboy125]

I hope that they don't get rid of Motors TV. It is a great channel

[Arthurgray50@blu]

It always makes me laugh, when we have all this talk, over the various companies out there and they give all these deals, to get the customers, that pays silly prices, l am not praising Sky or anything, l go for the company that gives the BEST deal, and l believe that if Sky knocked all there sub's down to say £10.00 per month FOR ALL the products, they could sustain that costs for a few years, as they have the big guns, compared to VM, BT Vision etc, as they could not keep up the pressure, we already have VM being sold off, to the highest bidders as they are so much in Debt, ( and Sir Richard listening to offers, now if that wasn't someone who has given up, l don't know what is ) and remind me, how long have they been going - less than a year, what the customer - that forum members - has to worry about is going in for a silly deal, and after the contract is up, the price goes up, and get hit in the pocket, I think that VM will get there fingers burned in the court battle, as the courts will probabely say, that Sky have got a product to sell, and they will go for the best price possible, but VM don't want to pay the price, thats business.

[Media Boy]

Europe's largest cable operator Liberty Global is considering a bid for Virgin Media.

Liberty Global chairman and US mogul John Malone told the Financial Times that the group was 'doing [its] homework' with regards to entering the £12m auction for the US-listed British cable firm.

Any deal would involve taking on around £6bn of debt.

'The UK market is big and complex and [Virgin Media] has a lot of interesting financial attributes to it,' Malone said.

Virgin Media was up for sale earlier this summer after receiving a £5.5bn takeover bid from private-equity firm Carlyle Group.

A $32-$33 per share proposal from Carlyle triggered a formal auction the company.

Virgin has asked for indicative offers by August 8 with bids exepcted from a host of private equity firms and fellow cable companies.

Virgin Media's Nasdaq-listed stock has fallen from above $29 ten days

Info from Broadcast.
For on this story see here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadc...StoryID=170327

[darkm]

having experienced what the liberty service is like I would reconmmend vm staying well clear.

[ufitm]

[quote=TV Boy;34362364]Europe's largest cable operator Liberty Global is considering a bid for Virgin Media.

Liberty Global chairman and US mogul John Malone told the Financial Times that the group was 'doing [its] homework' with regards to entering the £12m auction for the US-listed British cable firm.

Any deal would involve taking on around £6bn of debt.

'The UK market is big and complex and [Virgin Media] has a lot of interesting financial attributes to it,' Malone said.

Virgin Media was up for sale earlier this summer after receiving a £5.5bn takeover bid from private-equity firm Carlyle Group.

A $32-$33 per share proposal from Carlyle triggered a formal auction the company.

Virgin has asked for indicative offers by August 8 with bids exepcted from a host of private equity firms and fellow cable companies.

Virgin Media's Nasdaq-listed stock has fallen from above $29 ten days

Info from Broadcast.
For on this story see here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadc...StoryID=170327
/quote]
Is this the same Liberty that provides the software fot the set top boxes ?

[Media Boy]

I think they are.