Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
28-10-2016, 17:36
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Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
As per the July Ofcom bulletin.
It appears that Filmflex (Now renamed Virgin Movies) failed to supply details of their turnover.
As a result, Ofcom have put them on notice for this "serious breach of the broadcasting code".
How on Earth can a company of this size risk their business by being so inept?
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28-10-2016, 17:47
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
Maybe ofcom confused:
Virgin Movies end of year balance:- 0
As Virgin withholding, when the service probably took no money, to go with all those rubbish channels that have 0 viewers.
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28-10-2016, 19:19
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by DaMac
Maybe ofcom confused:
Virgin Movies end of year balance:- 0
As Virgin withholding, when the service probably took no money, to go with all those rubbish channels that have 0 viewers.
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You may well have a point 
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06-12-2016, 12:16
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
Sky Box Office is to close down after Christmas; I wonder if all the other alternatives to watching films are now impacting on PPV services like these.
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06-12-2016, 19:08
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
As per the July Ofcom bulletin.
It appears that Filmflex (Now renamed Virgin Movies) failed to supply details of their turnover.
As a result, Ofcom have put them on notice for this "serious breach of the broadcasting code".
How on Earth can a company of this size risk their business by being so inept?
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We are talking VM here...you'e no doubt seen the other thread about the utter shambles of people trying to order the V6 and the myriad of different prices being touted.
If they can screw up launching the biggest revolution in television why should this be any different?
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06-12-2016, 20:26
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
Totally agree.
They can't seem to get anything right, they're a total embarrassment.
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06-12-2016, 20:27
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
But yet you continue to give them your custom...
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06-12-2016, 20:46
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by OhReally
We are talking VM here...
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No we aren't. VM are nothing to do with Filmflex, apart from being one of their customers.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
FilmFlex, is an on-demand movie rental services provider, claiming to be largest outside of the US. It is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television and The Walt Disney Company.
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06-12-2016, 22:00
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
But yet you continue to give them your custom...
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Only for broadband.
---------- Post added at 22:00 ---------- Previous post was at 21:57 ----------
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
No we aren't. VM are nothing to do with Filmflex, apart from being one of their customers.
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If you are going to quote from wikipedia
"On 13 September 2012, the FilmFlex service was rebranded as Virgin Movies on the cable platform."
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06-12-2016, 22:46
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...ideo-on-demand
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Sony and Disney have sold FilmFlex, the video-on-demand service with clients including Virgin Media, to US-based company Vubiquity, which also supples on-demand services.
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Vubiquity have both Virgin Media and Sky as customers, along with TalkTalk and BT.
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06-12-2016, 23:27
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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The VM deal was renewed in September 2016 so I can't see the Virgin Movies service is threatened. Maybe Ofcom wrote to an out-of-date address or something.
http://www.vubiquity.com/news/vubiqu...hain-services/
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07-12-2016, 00:41
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
But yet you continue to give them your custom...
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I was offered a retention deal to stay.
I already have a V6 and don't use PPV movies, so whilst these issues don't affect me personally, I recognise that they've got yet more things wrong.
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07-12-2016, 09:14
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
Well you were on the verge of leaving them, then pestered them for a deal to get a V6.
Wasn't like they just offered you it out of the goodness of their hearts.
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07-12-2016, 09:47
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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But yet you continue to give them your custom...
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A plethora of differing contradictions it seems. 
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07-12-2016, 15:17
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Re: Filmflex/Virgin Movies may have broadcasting licence revoked.
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Originally Posted by Stephen
Well you were on the verge of leaving them, then pestered them for a deal to get a V6.
Wasn't like they just offered you it out of the goodness of their hearts.
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I didn't pester them at all. I simply laid out my requirements in order to keep the custom of various accounts.
They were free to accept my requirements or not and chose the former.
I think that you're right about them not not offering this out of the goodness of their hearts, until I escalated the matter frontline staff effectively shrugged their shoulders.
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Originally Posted by denphone
A plethora of differing contradictions it seems. |
Like what?
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