Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
11-01-2023, 02:16
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
Heads up: Create and Craft may close by April on Virgin Media.
Base on info I saw online last year [link no longer online] Hochanda deal with Virgin Media is up this year (around March/April time).
Virgin's deal with Create & Craft was set to be up before April 2023 before Hochanda took them last year.
I have no idea on what may happen to ex-sister channel Ideal World via Virgin Media.
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11-01-2023, 12:20
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
It's very difficult for the smaller channels to be on Virgin due to the cost. Out of all the platforms, Virgin is the least cost effective, which is why so many are missing.
Shopping channels receive none of the subscription money, in fact they have to pay to be on the platform. To make it financially viable a minimum number of extra sales have to be generated by being on cable.
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11-01-2023, 16:34
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by Media Boy UK
Heads up: Create and Craft may close by April on Virgin Media.
Base on info I saw online last year [link no longer online] Hochanda deal with Virgin Media is up this year (around March/April time).
Virgin's deal with Create & Craft was set to be up before April 2023 before Hochanda took them last year.
I have no idea on what may happen to ex-sister channel Ideal World via Virgin Media.
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Hooray! The channel is an offence against anyone with a life
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11-01-2023, 17:27
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by Media Boy UK
Heads up: Create and Craft may close by April on Virgin Media.
Base on info I saw online last year [link no longer online] Hochanda deal with Virgin Media is up this year (around March/April time).
Virgin's deal with Create & Craft was set to be up before April 2023 before Hochanda took them last year.
I have no idea on what may happen to ex-sister channel Ideal World via Virgin Media.
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Seen a claim that Ideal World will be closing on Virgin on the 17th Do these two channels have any connection?
Last edited by RichardCoulter; 11-01-2023 at 17:34.
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11-01-2023, 18:11
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It's very difficult for the smaller channels to be on Virgin due to the cost. Out of all the platforms, Virgin is the least cost effective, which is why so many are missing.
Shopping channels receive none of the subscription money, in fact they have to pay to be on the platform. To make it financially viable a minimum number of extra sales have to be generated by being on cable.
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Probably more a case of shopping channels not being able to compete with online only retailers which don't have the same overheads.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Seen a claim that Ideal World will be closing on Virgin on the 17th Do these two channels have any connection?
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The original Ideal World owners sold Create & Craft to Hochanda and later disposed of the Ideal World business to its new owners. Perhaps the new owners acquired the legacy contracts but don't want to renew them, that might explain the timing.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Hooray! The channel is an offence against anyone with a life
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11-01-2023, 22:50
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Hooray! The channel is an offence against anyone with a life
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How do know about it then ?
I've never ever heard of it, as I do have a life.
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12-01-2023, 00:30
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Seen a claim that Ideal World will be closing on Virgin on the 17th Do these two channels have any connection?
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I have found out the claim was started on "Shopping Telly" on Tuesday. with a following post:
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Just went to Ideal World and a banner came up and said it was closing on 17th January.
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https://forum.shoppingtelly.com/thre...january.65413/
Watching IW right now - with no banner.
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12-01-2023, 08:14
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It's very difficult for the smaller channels to be on Virgin due to the cost. Out of all the platforms, Virgin is the least cost effective, which is why so many are missing.
Shopping channels receive none of the subscription money, in fact they have to pay to be on the platform. To make it financially viable a minimum number of extra sales have to be generated by being on cable.
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Wait there while I get the world’s smallest violin out for the shopping channels.
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12-01-2023, 09:45
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by jfman
Wait there while I get the world’s smallest violin out for the shopping channels.
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Are you ordering it from Ideal World?
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12-01-2023, 09:58
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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12-01-2023, 12:36
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
Would it be an "Ideal World" if there were no shopping channels ?
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12-01-2023, 13:39
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
According to VM, Yesterday+1 and Drama+1 are now available in HD on 217 and 226:
https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...-channel-guide
It is, of course, yet another mistake. Only the main versions of these channels are available in HD on 129 and 130.
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13-01-2023, 16:24
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
Next week Virgin Media changes:
Jan. 16th:
*Sky Cinema British Icons HD renames to Sky Cinema Greats HD
*Sky Cinema Twilight HD renames to Sky Cinema HD
Jan. 17th:
*BBC One Oxford HD closes in local area - sub region absorbed into BBC One South HD
*BBC One East W HD closes in local area - sub region absorbed into BBC One East (East) HD
*BBC One East (East) HD changes name to BBC One East HD following the BBC One East (West) HD closure
Jan. 19th:
*Sky Cinema Dystopia HD renames to Sky Sci-Fi and Horror HD
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13-01-2023, 18:35
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
I may have missed this, but is Paramount + coming to Virgin?
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13-01-2023, 19:52
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
I may have missed this, but is Paramount + coming to Virgin?
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https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/par...nel-portfolio/
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