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Old 07-10-2017, 21:52   #2917
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
I'm no expert on the 'due prominence' rules, but if ITV was taken off the EPG, then realised their mistake and came back, I think ITV would be within their rights to insist on a prominent slot (not necessarily 103).

106 would have been ideal!
It's difficult to predict how the DCMS would enforce it, it's their rule after all. With local tv the requirement was for the most prominent, unallocated, slot to be made available. Freeview has followed that up by promoting the channels to better slots as they become available. Apparently not the case for VM, as they appear to have allocated 106 to E4. I would have thought that, following due prominence rules, the 106 slot should have been offered to local tv stations and / or other BBC channels before E4. That said, allocating it to local tv, in its present state, would be crazy.