Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

The Tonight Show was on E! in the UK - but they stopped showing it in October. Nobody else has picked it up.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Have you searched for Late Night With Seth Meyers on CNBC ?
Although it appears to be only broadcast at weekends in the UK.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Will VM be creating a news channel to replace this?

A few years ago, just before the Irish version of Freeview started (Saorview), TV3 (which of course Malone now owns) wanted to open a news and a childrens channel, but scrapped the idea because the carriage costs were too high.

In February 2016 the Irish Times reported that Malone said he was going to open three Irish channels in the genres of news, children and sport.

He's invested heavily in Ireland in property and land, not just television and intends to retire there.

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Re: The rebranding of his existing Irish channels, apparently, VM are awaiting the results from marketing and media consultancies before making any decision.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Episode 7 "A Gay Olde Christmas" from the new season of Will & Grace is now available on Virgin Media as a special preview ahead of the new season on Channel 5 from 5th Jan.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Brilliant :rolleyes:

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To be honest, I doubt very much that VM would establish its own news channel. They are expensive to run (I believe Sky News operates at a loss) and in any case goes against his philosophy of not owning content but taking it from other providers.

Of course, people do often change their principles when it comes to their own personal interests, so maybe if he is retiring in Ireland, he will make an exception in this case!

Don't hold your breath though, Richard, I think the odds are against it!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

spot on, OB

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Well, it's what Malone said in an interview; whether it comes to fruition or not is another matter.

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Is BBC Alba on channel 188 in Scotland?

It's on 161 on my box, but after tonight's rugby it said Freeview 7, VM 188, Sky 142, Freesat 109 :confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

It would be difficult for any broadcaster to make a rolling news service attractive in Ireland. I suppose they could take more filler items from international news rather than items such as the fire service rescuing a cat stuck in a tree in Cork. Then again, RTE could have done that too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Someone is using out-of-date info. It used to be on 188.

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Wasn't helped by the fact that they were forbidden from advertising on the channel.

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Thanks, looks like the BBC are unaware and are still showing 188 on their closedown slate.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

:xmas: hope everyone has a great one

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

The slate always said temporary and it is back on VM only. No sign on Sky.

Perhaps they still have a contract with VM to fulfil.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

As far as I remember, and Richard's original post should confirm this, the "This channel is temporarily unavailable" was only on the PPN service "advert" on EPG slot 971. The actual subscription channel on EPG slot 979 carried the "Channel No Longer Available" description on the EPG and the "service replacement" slate would have been displayed 24/7 to any subscribers able to view it.

That, sort of, made sense as the NVOD channel linked to the advert on slot 971 is a VM internal service with no (visible) direct link to the EPG. So VM could have replaced the PPN service with any other PPN service, explaining the "temporarily unavailable message".

Perhaps, although I thought I covered that scenario in post #3795.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

On the regular channel (979) the listings said "Channel No Longer Available" but the slate said "temporarily unvailable". I think it remained behind the subscription wall too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Did it really?

The scan data shows that, as I have stated previously, several times, the service replacement slate was displayed 24/7. The service replacement slate is done through SDT linkage, which indicates that the replacement service was SID 2101, "Channel Off Air Slate". The "Channel Off Air Slate" is the (static) video stream displayed when any channel is off-air. It doesn't state "temporarily unavailable", it states "We'll be Back. This channel is not on air right now. Check the GUIDE to find out what's on when." So, basically the slate refers the viewer to the guide which, as you have pointed out stated "Channel No Longer Available".

That's not a temporarily unavailable message, it's a loop of confusion. The standard off-air slate used on a service (SID 1709) which was, indeed, no longer available.

Well, the SDT flags for subscription and PIN access for adult channels remained in place.

I'm not sure why you even brought this up when it is clear from the thread that the "new" Playboy service (SID 1710) had been testing from around Dec 12th and, in any event had totally replaced the original service (SID 1709) by Dec 19th. I think this subject has been exhausted.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Closed.

2018 thread here ;

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...php?t=33705858

(A little early I think, MB)