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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

Amazon adding adverts unless viewers pay a £2.99 a month premium to remove them.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36167257)

For the record, here's how much each leading streamer's parent company is valued at on the stock exchange. I'm pretty surprised at WBD and Comcast - I expected Disney to be ahead of Comcast and WBD to be worth a lot more.

Apple $3.00 trillion
Amazon $1.59 trillion

Netflix $214.98 billion
Comcast $176.82 billion
Walt Disney $166.47 billion

Warner Brothers Discovery $28.04 billion
Paramount $10.01 billion
AMC $1.21 billion

Amazon, Apple and Comcast's valuations will be held up somewhat by their other operations (retail, tech and as a cable operator in the US). Netflix valuation is out of step with its revenue, profit and debt levels - there's no real underlying asset. Disney have decades of content, theme parks, etc.

Everyone else is nowhere.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36167257)

It will be more interesting to see what WBD does with its HBO content - will it licence it exclusively to Sky as now? Will it keep it in-house and launch it via its Discovery + streamer? Or will it licence it to Sky and add it to its own streamer?

For the record, here's how much each leading streamer's parent company is valued at on the stock exchange. I'm pretty surprised at WBD and Comcast - I expected Disney to be ahead of Comcast and WBD to be worth a lot more.

Apple $3.00 trillion
Amazon $1.59 trillion

Netflix $214.98 billion
Comcast $176.82 billion
Walt Disney $166.47 billion

Warner Brothers Discovery $28.04 billion
Paramount $10.01 billion
AMC $1.21 billion

WBD hired a Original productions chief for Max that covers Italy which is a Sky territory as part of their new Southern Europe team
https://deadline.com/2023/12/warner-...ia-1235679584/

Certain content may well be shared, Sky apparently have life Of series rights to House Of Dragon non exclusively , I suspect Sky will want to keep showing HBO documentaries & Warner Bros movie premieres aswell for example

I'd prefer if they kept the Discovery+ name & 'upgraded' to MAX technology platform but they seem intent on this name unless threatened with Legal action like the Netherlands/Belgium.

Max in France will stream Eurosport live for example
https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/m...ry-1235755287/

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36167258)

Amazon adding adverts unless viewers pay a £2.99 a month premium to remove them.

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Amazon, Apple and Comcast's valuations will be held up somewhat by their other operations (retail, tech and as a cable operator in the US). Netflix valuation is out of step with its revenue, profit and debt levels - there's no real underlying asset. Disney have decades of content, theme parks, etc.

Everyone else is nowhere.

I was suprised to learn WBD actually acquired all of Blu TV in Turkey so will likely get rebranded as MAX

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

That's TV 2 starts on 3 January. I wonder if we will get it on Virgin?

I hope so as I enjoyed watching Black Mirror and other programmes over Christmas.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36167330)

That's TV 2 starts on 3 January. I wonder if we will get it on Virgin?

I hope so as I enjoyed watching Black Mirror and other programmes over Christmas.

Seen no tests starting in Virgin Media HQ - appearing on Digital Bits Rate web site.

Also That's 60s also has listing up to January 10th.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

WWE Fans:

WWE NXT is not longer being shown on TNT Sports every Tuesday nights at 1am.

It moving to the WWE Network

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25185...gn=sharebarweb

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

This thread should be renamed Going Soon From Virgin TV (2024)
With all the decent content and numerous channels, we've lost in the last year, will 2024 be nearing the end of Virgin TV as we've known it. Perhaps it would be wiser now for VM to concentrate OTT and Streaming Services with Broadband and relaunch its Stream service.

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Originally Posted by fox35 (Post 36167421)

Understand what you mean ,however personally haven't missed anything :shocked:

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Originally Posted by fox35 (Post 36167421)

Your point is noted, I think the next one should just be "Virgin TV 2024" then it can cover all elements, coming, going or other.

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36167435)

Your point is noted, I think the next one should just be "Virgin TV 2024" then it can cover all elements, coming, going or other.

OK Boss - Next year thread will be called "Virgin TV 2024" and will launch after 8pm tomorrow.

Busy after Saturday night.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy UK (Post 36167367)

WWE Fans:

WWE NXT is not longer being shown on TNT Sports every Tuesday nights at 1am.

It moving to the WWE Network

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25185...gn=sharebarweb

To confirm what MB has posted WWE have sent out emails stating NXT will be exclusive to WWE Network in the UK.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

The "Virgin TV (2024)" thread is now online @ https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...4#post36167504