The Virgin Media Television thread

Although it's been hidden away in the early morning - VM3 broadcast the 2 and half hour of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebration from May 2022. They had it scheduled for a 3pm Sunday slot a few weeks ago too. And they are repeating it on Monday ay 4:30am again.

What an odd thing to show. They didn't even show it originally when it aired in 2022. Also a note that this is the first showing of Philip Schofield on the channel since his fall-out in May 2023. VMTV stopped showing 5 Gold Rings, The Cube and Schofield's South African Adventure at that time too.

Apologies, yes ITV produced and broadcast it in 2022, but none of the VM channels aired it at the time. Last week would have been the first time that Virgin Media showed it.

Just watching the Ireland match on VM Two and they mentioned that the England were 1-0 down, and that it's on VM More. Flicked over and the EPG listings have Monster Jam. How can VM not update their listings for their own channels on their own TV platform. Mind boggles 🙄

The whole virgin media televsion operation is at best amateur. There is absolutely no need for 4 channels that are full of repeats constantly. They try to emulate ITV with their version of Ireland Am and the six o clock show but fail miserably. Everything else is just a constant loop of repeats. How they are getting away with it is beyond me.

Ah but how would be discuss Irish Broadcasting.

TV3/VMTV have been at this for 25 years, they aren't going to stop now.

The 30 million is probably to go HD on Saorview, considering that TG4 got extra funding and that sd is looking more and more outdated. How much are they getting at the moment though CnM to fund programmes and how much are the extra ad minutes worth.

What kind of PSB? Extra to what they currently provide or to pay for what they currently provide. 30M is 20% of the licence fee in a normal year. VMTV is a multimillion euro company, surely it should be providing something toward PSB as Telco.

VM certainly getting their money's worth out of their miniscule film rights package. The Punisher (edited, thanks JDextra pointing out) on VM1 tonight becomes the joint most aired film on the broadcasters history (incl. TV3, 3e). It sits along side 1995's Circle Of Friends as being shown 30 times across the channels.

It's been shown between the starting time of 9pm-10pm 22 times to illustrate the prominence VM gives it, which is quite something for a film that is pretty mediocre.

Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Two are HD only now on Sky. Both SD versions were removed today, following TG4, who closed their SD version last Monday

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Changes-to-the-Sky-TV-Guide-April-2024/td-p/4600061

Virgin Media Three is currently SD only on Sky, while Virgin Media Four is HD only

Presumably VM Three HD will launch soon on Sky

If that happens then they need to be subject to the same conditions as RTÉ such as revealing salaries and been accountable to the Public Accounts Committee.