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Originally Posted by denphone
Yes l agree most of these other channels are useless but l suspect Virgin got them quite cheaply when they signed the carriage agreements.
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Yeah probably. I'd imagine there is a lot of channels that fall into that category. Wonder if Virgin will renew the deals if and when the current contracts run out?
Upon closer inspection of the channel list, I'm astonished at how many channels I get that I don't ever watch. I'm all for choice and content but I want quality not quantity. The below channels don't ever get viewed in my house:
BBC Parliament
Best Direct
BID TV
Bloomberg
Boomerang
Boomerang + 1
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network Too
Cartoonito
CBBC
CBeebies
Challenge + 1
CITV
CNBC
CNN International
Community Channel
Current TV
Disney Channel
Disney Channel + 1
Disney Junior
Disney XD
Disney XD + 1
DMAX
Eden + 1
Euronews
Extreme Sports
Film4 + 1
5 USA + 1
5* + 1
Gems TV
GOLD + 1
Home
Home + 1
Home & Health
Horror Channel
Ideal World
Jewellery Maker
Liverpool TV
Motors TV
Movies 24
Movies 24 + 1
National Geographic +1
NDTV
Nick Junior
Nick Jnr 2
Nick Replay
Nickelodeon
NickToons TV
Pick TV
Price-Drop TV
QVC
Sky LIVING +1
Sky LIVINGit +1
Speed Auction TV
Syfy +1
The Box
Tiny Pop
Travel & Living
True Entertainment
True Movies 1
TV5
Universal Channel +1
Watch + 1
Yesterday +1
That's 65 channels, more than a third of my current package, that I never watch. I couldn't even tell you what programmes air on some of these channels. If Virgin asked me would I be happy to lose these channels and in return they would deliver all the non-SKY missing HD channels, SKY Atlantic, Premier Sports and more On Demand content I'd bite their hands off.
I'd imagine most XL customers could identify between 30 to 50 channels they could live without.