Quote:
Originally Posted by GuestUK
I did a search and wasn't able to find anything about Virgin One recently on these forums, if it has already been posted, I apologise and please feel free to remove this thread.
According to an article on Broadcastnow it seems that Virgin is getting ready to start a new channel Virgin One to rival Sky, along with it's new Sports News channel. The channel is planned for launch on Freeview, as well as highly likely on cable. It's most likely going to replace the current offering as FTN, and seems to be going to carry mainly US imports.
While this could be good news, I think it will be sad to see FTN go as they did carry some good programming and I thought it was quite a good channel (I guess I won't be seeing Crystal Maze on Virgin One on freeview anymore).
Plus, it almost makes one wonder whether they were truly serious about getting the Sky channels at all, or whether they had plans for all of this and getting rid of the Sky channels on the VM platform was part of the plan. Gives them the money to do these ventures and knocks out the competition on the platform so they get more viewers. |
im not entirely confident we'll ever see the basic sky channels on the uk cable platform ever again...not that i care anyway i only really like sky sports but it goes to show their efforts are concentrated elsewhere ie. broadband upgrades, launching new on-demand/channels and bidding for us shows...doesnt look like they care about sky channels anymore