General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2012) Vol. 3.

[Chad]

Could the +1 channel coming soon be SKY1 +1 of has it 100% been confirmed as Channel 5 +1

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Chad

Could the +1 channel coming soon be SKY1 +1 of has it 100% been confirmed as Channel 5 +1

Channel 5 +1 is the only '+1' that will come in October and has been confirmed.

but if Sky1 +1 is just an rebrand of Sky Livingit - Sky1 +1 May also be on Virgn Media.

but I think if SA +1 is just an rebrand of Sky Livingit +1 - Virgin will remove this channel.

[andy_m]

Could we see Sky Atlantic+1 on Virgin so that Sky can continue to tell their customers that their platform is the first place they can see Atlantic programming? Is that really clutching at straws???

[denphone]

Originally Posted by andy_m

Could we see Sky Atlantic+1 on Virgin so that Sky can continue to tell their customers that their platform is the first place they can see Atlantic programming? Is that really clutching at straws???

Oh Andy if only others had your positivity about things.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Chad

It's funny you should mention that.

In the recent deal with Talk Talk SKY 2 was not included.

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...f_sky_channels

Also in the recent enhanced deal with UPC, SKY 2 which was missing from their previous agreement was not added.

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press..._upc_agreement

That to me suggests either Talk Talk and and UPC are not interested in SKY 2, or SKY 2 doesn't have too much long left. You'll also notice SKY Living it was not part of the Talk Talk deal either.

You are maybe right about Sky2.

Sky2 may close make way for Sky Sports 3D to launch???

Info thanks to stuff.tv

http://www.stuff.tv/news/tv-and-hi-f...rts-3d-channel

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by denphone

Sky's Stuart Murphy announces the launch of two new channels.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/vide...=ILCNETTXT3486

Originally Posted by andy_m

Could we see Sky Atlantic+1 on Virgin so that Sky can continue to tell their customers that their platform is the first place they can see Atlantic programming? Is that really clutching at straws???

Just listened to the interview that Den posted and Stuart Murphy said that 25% give SA the reason for choosing Sky. Sounds like a good reason to keep SA exclusive to Sky. But I refuse to give up hope!

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Just listened to the interview that Den posted and Stuart Murphy said that 25% give SA the reason for choosing Sky. Sounds like a good reason to keep SA exclusive to Sky. But I refuse to give up hope!

It also works the other way , it's the reason I stay.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

It also works the other way , it's the reason I stay.

Loyalty and the master know no bound it seems.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

You are maybe right about Sky2.

Sky2 may close make way for Sky Sports 3D to launch???

Info thanks to stuff.tv

http://www.stuff.tv/news/tv-and-hi-f...rts-3d-channel

How an earth do you come to that conclusion , Sky 2 is an SD channel , Sky Sports 3D is HD , there is plenty of available space on satellite for new channel launches.

[nstokes]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

You are maybe right about Sky2.

Sky2 may close make way for Sky Sports 3D to launch???

Info thanks to stuff.tv

http://www.stuff.tv/news/tv-and-hi-f...rts-3d-channel

That will be a good move if that is correct

Originally Posted by muppetman11

It also works the other way , it's the reason I stay.

same here, as well as other things

VM should try offering them 106, 107 & 108 and see if they would offer it with the higher slot.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Just listened to the interview that Den posted and Stuart Murphy said that 25% give SA the reason for choosing Sky. Sounds like a good reason to keep SA exclusive to Sky. But I refuse to give up hope!

Thats an interesting number. I think I'm right in saying Sky have about 10 million households. This of course means that significantly more than 10 million have access to Atlantic, but even allowing for there to be just one person in each of those houses, 25% of Sky customers is at least 2.5 million. And yet, again I think this is right, the highest ever audience for any Atlantic show was about 750,000? I'm sure Muppetman will be quick to correct my figures if they're wrong, but it sort of suggests that more people say they want the channel than actually find anything to watch on it. Of course, if even despite that its still driving 25% of new subs and presumably preventing a significant amount of churn then yes, I agree thats a very good reason for Sky to keep it an exclusive.

Originally Posted by passingbat

Just listened to the interview that Den posted and Stuart Murphy said that 25% give SA the reason for choosing Sky. Sounds like a good reason to keep SA exclusive to Sky. But I refuse to give up hope!

Strange - the viewing figures don't seem to reflect this, as 10 million households have Sky Atlantic, as the Borgias had 243k viewers, the Newsroom 141k viewers, and Alan Partridge had 131k viewers on the week of August 12th

I imagine its 25% of new customers, then the ones that actually filedl in the survey asking why they joined Sky. So about 1% of all customers.

[Telly_]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Strange - the viewing figures don't seem to reflect this, as 10 million households have Sky Atlantic, as the Borgias had 243k viewers, the Newsroom 141k viewers, and Alan Partridge had 131k viewers on the week of August 12th

Sky Atlantic contents is always on Skys top 5 downloads from Anytime+ and has very large time shift figures. In some cases you can quadruple total viewings from just "live" audience figures.