TV3 is now Virgin Media Television

0ph0rce0 · 30-08-2018 09:09AM

Could they have made the logos any bigger???

Horrible things

MikeyTaylor · 30-08-2018 10:07AM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Well, shiver me timbers...

https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/

Only the name has been changed...and the branding.

tv3tg4 · 30-08-2018 11:23AM

Pointless rebrand - TV3 was still recognignised as an Irish Station.

Virgin One is a sort of ITV lite.

Lord Glentoran · 30-08-2018 11:25AM

tv3tg4 wrote: »

Pointless rebrand - TV3 was still recognignised as an Irish Station.

Virgin One is a sort of ITV lite.

Couldn't they have renamed it ITV Ireland? Would have been a more accurate description.

Gooser14 · 30-08-2018 11:36AM

The white text on the light blue background news ticker on the Ireland am show is terrible. Very difficult to read. Black text might work better.

Suckit · 30-08-2018 11:42AM

So will TG4 become TG3? :pac:
Wasn't the reason TnaG became TG4 becaause TV3 started and took the 3 as their name?

Mr E · 30-08-2018 11:45AM

tv3tg4 wrote: »

Pointless rebrand - TV3 was still recognignised as an Irish Station.

Virgin One is a sort of ITV lite.

You're just sore because it makes your username redundant.

w/s/p/c/ · 30-08-2018 12:20PM

As I do each morning, I watch the 7am news on Ireland AM. Had to laugh at Ciara Doherty giving the details on how to text and email the show, she started saying "Send your emails to [email]Irelandam@T.....Virginmedia.ie[/email]", I am sure there will be a few slips like that. They also referred to their new studio as their new "hub" and handed over to the "news hub". Buzzword overkill!

Are they totally ignoring their past (other than the documentaries they will show about the 20 years) going forward?

sonic85 · 30-08-2018 01:32PM

Gooser14 wrote: »

The white text on the light blue background news ticker on the Ireland am show is terrible. Very difficult to read. Black text might work better.

That was the first thing that struck me when I turned the TV on this morning. That and when they put their email etc on screen it was white writing on a bright yellow background. Who the fcuk designs this stuff

Go Harvey Go · 30-08-2018 04:23PM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Could they have made the logos any bigger???

Horrible things

The DOGs at the top right corner of the screen are rather big too - wouldn't surprise me if they're *deliberately* big to draw attention to the new names.

As for the idents... well, I don't have to eat a pair of socks, because they're not as good as the Carlton 1999 idents (see post #36).

Nor are they as good as what they've replaced - I quite liked the huge perspex '3' standing over Rathmines and Cobh. (Obviously it was computer-generated, but I assume it was supposed to resemble perspex.)

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Only the name has been changed...and the branding.

Well, clearly the site has changed too... and, as I said in post #119, almost in the blink of an eye (it changed shortly before 11pm last night).

Lord Glentoran wrote: »

Couldn't they have renamed it ITV Ireland? Would have been a more accurate description.

Only if it's owned by ITV plc.

Mind you, they haven't ditched the UTV name just yet.

Suckit wrote: »

So will TG4 become TG3? :pac:
Wasn't the reason TnaG became TG4 becaause TV3 started and took the 3 as their name?

Do people actually *want* TG4 to become TG3?

I certainly don't - even if it made more sense than this act of Virginisation.

iseegirls wrote: »

The Ireland AM set looks a lot better on screen than it did in those promotional pictures yesterday. The music stays the same.

The music has been the same ever since the show began in 1999 - there would probably be war if they changed it now.

lertsnim · 30-08-2018 04:24PM

Same ****, different packaging.

Go Harvey Go · 30-08-2018 04:49PM

lertsnim wrote: »

Same ****, different packaging.

Well, obviously there'll be another series of Ireland's Got Talent, and another series of Gogglebox Ireland - as well as the millionth series of Livin' with Lucy. :rolleyes:

Mickey Mike · 30-08-2018 06:19PM

Have Virgin Media any notion in improving the picture quality? its fine on smaller TVs, 720 × 576i must be made the new standard definition, I've given up on HD a long time ago.

Mickey Mike · 30-08-2018 06:31PM

Suckit wrote: »

So will TG4 become TG3? :pac:
Wasn't the reason TnaG became TG4 becaause TV3 started and took the 3 as their name?

Yes that is exactly the reason, and if right is right TnaG should take the 3 position. It should launch as a HD channel also. TG3 sounds better. It cost nothing to change name and swap around.

Go Harvey Go · 30-08-2018 06:39PM

Mickey Mike wrote: »

Yes that is exactly the reason, and if right is right TnaG should take the 3 position. It should launch as a HD channel also. TG3 sounds better. It cost nothing to change name and swap around.

I guess I should create a poll then...

Mr.Nice Guy · 30-08-2018 07:17PM

iseegirls wrote: »

The new Virgin Media One started at 7am this morning. They were still using the TV3 idents and promos before this.

The Ireland AM set looks a lot better on screen than it did in those promotional pictures yesterday. The music stays the same.

3Kids looks to be just called Kids now.

VM3 going with a premiere of the Irish produced film A Date For Mad Mary tonight at 9:30 (late change to the schedule a few days ago)

Don't think calling it Virgin Kids would have gone down too well. :pac:

freshpopcorn · 30-08-2018 07:47PM

I wonder will the Emmerdale viewers switch over to ITV at 8 instead of watching the news.

iseegirls · 30-08-2018 08:41PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I wonder will the Emmerdale viewers switch over to ITV at 8 instead of watching the news.

It may work out better for soap viewers, as that edition of Emmerdale always clashed with Fair City.

RobertKK · 30-08-2018 08:52PM

As said already, the logo is way too big, or they need to move it more into the corner.

arrianalexander · 30-08-2018 08:59PM

Mickey Mike wrote: »

Yes that is exactly the reason, and if right is right TnaG should take the 3 position. It should launch as a HD channel also. TG3 sounds better. It cost nothing to change name and swap around.

To be fair it would have a cost impact and I'm not sure long term it would gain them any more revenue or viewership

That said it would make sense to move it to three and have all the virgin channels grouped together

Meauldsegosha · 30-08-2018 08:59PM

The logos are huge, taking over half the screen. :mad:

mloc123 · 30-08-2018 09:01PM

Logos look terrible. Like some of the third rate channels you find up in the 2-300s

fritzelly · 30-08-2018 09:07PM

With everyone else - those logos are totally distracting, could they have not made them transparent at least - thats not excepting the stupid channel names, why not VM1, VM2...

Mickey Mike · 30-08-2018 10:27PM

Meauldsegosha wrote: »

The logos are huge, taking over half the screen. :mad:

Hopefully with a bit of time they will reduce the size of these annoying logos (I never liked them, any logo for that matter), from a distance all you'll see is a logo.

JP Liz V1 · 30-08-2018 10:42PM

Is Xpose cancelled

bloodless_coup · 30-08-2018 11:06PM

I never realized TV3 had two other channels.

icdg · 30-08-2018 11:28PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is Xpose cancelled

Alas no, but it’s death by a thousand cuts continues, it seems to be down to three editions on Virgin Media Two now.

Meanwhile I’m bemused that my Sky Q app is using the old TV3 News at 8:00 logo (from the first time round) as the thumbnail for the revived version.

31-08-2018 06:25AM

iseegirls wrote: »

The lows of TV3 in my view was the whole Play TV, and Physics Live disaster. .

Remind me please.

iseegirls · 31-08-2018 07:39AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Remind me please.

Plenty of details on the wiki page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media_One#Play_TV_and_Brainbox

Ash.J.Williams · 31-08-2018 07:44AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Remind me please.

Physics live threw me there for a minute... Thought it was like open University

TV3 is now Virgin Media Television

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