General : Changes to Virgin TV (2021)

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Cuts to BBC Parliament are on the way soon though.

In the past they have normally shown repeats eg reruns of General Election coverage.

Yes, but repeats do not add value. Take away the repeats from scheduled TV and you will have a lot fewer channels while losing nothing.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, but repeats do not add value. Take away the repeats from scheduled TV and you will have a lot fewer channels while losing nothing.

In turn saving energy and 'saving the planet'

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

The BBC Parliament cut has started - the party Conferences season will not be shown in full live on BBC Parliament this year.

Also the BBC Scotland broadcasting BBC Two thing may not happen on July 31st after all as my Freeview TV Set EPG says "This is BBC Scotland" and the listings for BBC Scotland on the BBC web site says that BBC Scotland will just join up with BBC Two when BBC Two joins BBC News overnights.

They'd be better showing This Is BBC Scotland as it's better for the transmission of other channels on the relevant multiplex.

When Prince Phillip died and all the BBC channels started showing the same thing they ended up taking some channels off-air to stop the ill-affects of what happens when all channels show the same thing on a multiplex. At least that was what I heard from some techy folk, who are more techy than me, at the time.

Not that this is really a problem as BBC Scotland channel doesn't have the ten zillion regional variations of BBC1 which was part of the problem on some platforms at that time.

Anyways I'm blabbing in my own wee world offtopic. Ignore me.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, but repeats do not add value. Take away the repeats from scheduled TV and you will have a lot fewer channels while losing nothing.

They do for people that don't see things the first time around, or aren't techy, or have internet.

I know many people that have discovered shows a long time past original transmission, and can't use on-demand.

Everyone uses TVs differently.

[ozsat]

The schedules up to 7th Aug do not show BBC2 being carried on BBC Scotland.

They are still as usual 7pm to midnight only then 'This is BBC Scotland' from midnight to 7pm.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Also the BBC Scotland broadcasting BBC Two thing may not happen on July 31st after all as my Freeview TV Set EPG says "This is BBC Scotland" and the listings for BBC Scotland on the BBC web site says that BBC Scotland will just join up with BBC Two when BBC Two joins BBC News overnights.

[Media Boy UK]

From August 9th the listings for Eurosport UHD and Eurosport 3 to 9 HD Channels all say coming soon so it maybe nothing but when the channel closes Virgin EPG say "Channel No Longer Available" or is Virgin set to launch 7 HD Channels and an UHD Channel?

Here is the make up list of channels that may launch after August 9th.

Sky Sports UHD

1) Create & Craft HD
2) Ideal World HD
3) MUTV HD
4) CNBC HD
5) Nick Jr. HD
6) Boomerang HD
7) CNN International HD

Or Virgin can reuse the slots to launch 8 SD Channels:

GREAT! movies action +1
GREAT! movies classic +1
GREAT! movies +1
POP Max
POP Max +1
POP +1
Tiny Pop +1
B4U Plus or Nick Jr. +1

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

From August 9th the listings for Eurosport UHD and Eurosport 3 to 9 HD Channels all say coming soon so it maybe nothing but when the channel closes Virgin EPG say "Channel No Longer Available" or is Virgin set to launch 7 HD Channels and an UHD Channel?

Here is the make up list of channels that may launch after August 9th.

Sky Sports UHD

1) Create & Craft HD
2) Ideal World HD
3) MUTV HD
4) CNBC HD
5) Nick Jr. HD
6) Boomerang HD
7) CNN International HD

Or Virgin can reuse the slots to launch 8 SD Channels:

GREAT! movies action +1
GREAT! movies classic +1
GREAT! movies +1
POP Max
POP Max +1
POP +1
Tiny Pop +1
B4U Plus or Nick Jr. +1

This perhaps: https://www.timeanddate.com/events/s...pic-games.html

[ozsat]

Or perhaps they will be use for the Paralympic Games later in August?

Originally Posted by Media Boy

From August 9th the listings for Eurosport UHD and Eurosport 3 to 9 HD Channels all say coming soon so it maybe nothing but when the channel closes Virgin EPG say "Channel No Longer Available" or is Virgin set to launch 7 HD Channels and an UHD Channel?

Here is the make up list of channels that may launch after August 9th.

Sky Sports UHD

1) Create & Craft HD
2) Ideal World HD
3) MUTV HD
4) CNBC HD
5) Nick Jr. HD
6) Boomerang HD
7) CNN International HD

Or Virgin can reuse the slots to launch 8 SD Channels:

GREAT! movies action +1
GREAT! movies classic +1
GREAT! movies +1
POP Max
POP Max +1
POP +1
Tiny Pop +1
B4U Plus or Nick Jr. +1

[gba93]

Originally Posted by ozsat

Or perhaps they will be use for the Paralympic Games later in August?

Sounds more likely.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by epsilon

This perhaps: https://www.timeanddate.com/events/s...pic-games.html

Originally Posted by ozsat

Or perhaps they will be use for the Paralympic Games later in August?

Originally Posted by gba93

Sounds more likely.

Channel 4 has got the rights to the Paralympic Games 2020 and they confrimed that it will be shown on Channel 4 HD, More 4 HD and All4.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...es-programming

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Paralympic Games will be shown on Channel 4 until 2024.
Discovery will show Olympic until 2024 and also sub-license the rights to BBC.

[ozsat]

C4 will have 16 streams - so perhaps they plan to put some on satellite and cable.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...on-studios-and

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by ozsat

C4 will have 16 streams - so perhaps they plan to put some on satellite and cable.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/...on-studios-and

As you said "perhaps". Maybe the 16 streams Channel 4 is on about will be on All4.

I have not see reports yet on anything testing on Sky from Channel 4. Unless they close their music channels for the few weeks.

[ozsat]

I've never known 'Coming Soon' to be displayed in the EPG when a channel is being changed from one to another.

If they do the same on Sky they could use the existing Eurosport streams there.

But your list of HD channels would be nice.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

As you said "perhaps". Maybe the 16 streams Channel 4 is on about will be on All4.

I have not see reports yet on anything testing on Sky from Channel 4. Unless they close their music channels for the few weeks.

[cheekyangus]

I didn't realise there was a Eurosport On-demand area until I noticed the Catch Up With Tokyo 2020 at the bottom of my V6 Home menu.

Bound to disappear after Olympics. Shame.

[Phunkenstein]

Here’s a big one…

https://deadline.com/2021/07/comcast...se-1234800769/

Sky One is off to the EPG in the erm, Sky… Showcase and Max are the new channel brands…

[cheekyangus]

Originally Posted by Phunkenstein

Here’s a big one…

https://deadline.com/2021/07/comcast...se-1234800769/

Sky One is off to the EPG in the erm, Sky… Showcase and Max are the new channel brands…

Beat me to it!

Another article on the topic.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sky-on...ve-newsupdate/

It reads to me like Sky has basically moved all Sky Original shows to Sky Max and Showcase will basically be showing bits from all the other channels.

They don't mention Sky Replay but Sky Showcase sounds like Replay in concept, even though it's getting Sky 1's slot on Satellite. So maybe Replay is being axed? Pick is basically SkyReplay+1or2Years, so isn't really needed, so it makes sense to me.

They mention Sky Originals going to Sky Max but not what is happening to all the 3rd party imports like The Flash, Supergirl, Legends Of Tomorrow etc. Are they being rehomed or are they being cut loose?

Wednesday 1st September is the date given.

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I wonder if VM will think "What's the point of Sky Showcase? We'd rather have Max and/or Atlantic".

If Showcase is going to show content from all Sky's channels, VM customers will get a selection of Atlantic content via it if Showcase is directly replacing Sky1.

Since this is all 2 months away presumably VM will know about this all already since it involves a service they carry ending.