Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Thanks :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

You got my head spinning with that sentence, MB lol :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

They have red hot :p:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Cost probably, although it could be added at a later date. Discovery has dropped the Quest +1 slot on Freeview, replacing it with a 3 hour placeholder channel, so maybe the time shift channels aren't a priority at the moment.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

On BBC Parliament right now is the debate about the Fox/Sky merger.

Edit: debate now over. The Sky takeover is being referred to Ofcom.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

I know it prob isn't the same but funny how there was none of this when LG took over VM.
Nope SKY and BT are the bad guys i hope Fox do buy sky tbh.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Yep, there are huge differences between the UK assets controlled by John Malone at the time of the LG/VM takeover and what Murdoch stands to control assuming this deal goes through - which it seems all but certain to do.

Fox News will be on Virgin one way or another in the coming years.

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LG don't operate newspapers or a network of radio stations and didn't acquire control of a major TV news channel in their take over of VM. There is genuine concern over the Murdoch empire's control of the media.

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After several more years of limited "testing" on VM's internal networks. ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

You're meaning, I think, that you reckon Sky News will be converted into "fair and balanced" "news".

I hope NOT.

By all means have Fox News on VM, I'd welcome that, but Sky News shouldn't be changed into Fox News UK.

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But still they have the monopoly over cable.
But yeah i can see what you mean given what pies Murdoch has his fingers in there is indeed a concern over his monopoly in media.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Do you have any information about VM getting Wurl TV, theone?

https://www.rapidtvnews.com/20170316...#axzz4bV7NXj8Q

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

No info yet mate.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

They have a monopoly over their own infrastructure which has been funded by VM and its predecessors rather than by the taxpayer. A monopoly which is becoming less significant as other companies build their own fibre optic infrastructure.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

So SKY was funded by taxpayers then?
I know BTs network was i remember back when the big players were Mercury telecoms, BT and cable and wireless.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Not at all, Sky doesn't even own the satellites, they use space on the SES Astra fleet. BT, however, is another matter, originally being publicly owned as a part of the GPO.

Indeed.

As mentioned previously, the concern with the Sky takeover is the Murdoch empire's control of and influence over the media. Bearing in mind the reasons for the fate of the Murdoch controlled newspaper "News of The World", the concerns are well founded.