Brand Republic are reporting Virgin Media are planning to add adverts during On Demand programmes and they say “testing is currently underway for pre-, mid- and post-roll ads to be placed in VoD content”. This will be the first time ad breaks have appeared in On Demand programmes. Virgin Media will also be rolling out [...]
The three CSTV channels are still going strong in the ex-NTL areas of Virgin Media, despite rumours they would be removed on the 30th October if a new carriage deal wasn’t reached. Ex-Telewest customers have never been able to receive Flaunt, Scuzz or Bliss. If a new carriage deal has been signed, this should mean [...]
MTV’s new channel – MTV R – will be launching on the 8th November 2007. On Virgin Media, the channel will be available on channel 196. MTV R will air repeats of old MTV programmes (so it will act as an “MTV Gold” type of channel). Shows on the channel will include The Real World, [...]
Three channels have been added to the Virgin Media TV lineup today – Diva TV, Movies 24 + and UKTV Drama +1. Diva TV is on channel 192, Movies 24 + is on channel 425 and UKTV Drama +1 is on channel 130. On some other Virgin Media related news, Setanta Sports News (the Setanta [...]
Dave launched on Freeview this week – as well as cable and Sky (replacing UKTV G2). UKTV History now runs from 7am to 6pm on Freeview. Dave airs 7am to 3am. UKTV Bright Ideas has closed down. There are also some rumours that shopping channel Gems TV is joining the DTT platform soon. On Virgin [...]
There was a huge Virgin Media TV service outage across the majority of the country last night. All channels returned in the early hours of this morning. Certain areas were unaffected by the outage – others had their TV service disrupted for several hours. As of this morning the TV channels are now back in [...]
MTV On Demand has now appeared on Virgin Media. Press your On Demand button to view the new content.
Two new channels have been added to Virgin Media’s lineup today – Pop and Tiny Pop. These channels cater for children (Tiny Pop for very young audiences and Pop for older children – similar to CBeebies and CBBC). Pop is available on Virgin Media channel 736 and Tiny Pop is on channel 737.
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