The Virgin Media Television thread

They usually say a shoe is on vm1 or online so I'm sure you can watch back shows online.

Verging media play.

yes but you have to sign up, it is free, https://play.virginmediatelevision.ie/account/login?WebsiteViewerRequest=5

Not sure if this thread is just for general VM news as opposed to individual issues.
But I can't see anywhere more suitable.

I'm Dublin region with VM Horizon Box, subscribe to Sky Sports (SD, not HD).
Since last night the channels display fine but the EPG is borked.
None of the sports channels (401-407 on the EPG) say what is on.

So currently on 402 Cricket I'd expect the EPG to say something like "T20 World Cup England v Pakistan".
Instead it says "Sky Sports Cricket HD on EPG 502 from February 24".
Each of the sports stations has a message similar to this, in 4 hour blocks for the next 10 days.
e,g, Main Event says "Sky Sports Main Event HD on EPG 501 from February 24".

501 and 502 etc are either blank or totally irrelevant (502 is Fashion TV).

Anyone on Horizon seeing anything similar. Have tried factory reboot, no joy.

Week In Review seems to be returning to VM1 on Sat 14th March 5pm according to the new listings. Last seen in October 2008, when it was dropped along with the weekend news at the time.

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Some 'interesting' additions to the schedule after next week:
Monday With Gavan Reilly - 10pm Monday 23rd VM1. I'm sure that'll be just using The Tonight Show studio again. Doubt it'll be audience orientated.

Judge Judy - New Series 5pm Monday 23rd. I've always thought that they must have shown every episode of this seeing they've shown it since Day 2 of TV3 and the series finished in 2021 in the US. However, VM1 has Series 24 of Judge Judy showing as new starting. Surprised they are so far behind - with 2 full series to show still. Only a matter of time that they'll show her newer programme called Judy Justice.

UEFA U21s ROI v Moldova Thurs 26th 5pm VM2. First time them showing a U21s match. Not sure what's going on here, would have thought RTE have exclusivity over ROI's matches. The only theory I have is that RTE are putting their resources into the Czechia v ROI game later in the evening, and the match was offered to VMTV.

Good to see VM using the money they got from Comissiún na Meán. Others don’t like him here but I do like Gavan Reilly so I’ll be watching his show. I’m sure it’ll be a similar format to the Tonight Show. I hope Shane Coleman gets the Tonight Show gig full time on Tuesdays and Wednesdays if he want’s it. In my opinion he’s been the best of the stand-in presenters so far.

They should not get money from the state and at the same time have made redundancies and shipped work out to India.

I’ve no problem with the broadcasting side of VM getting money from the state for their News and Current Affairs content. But they should be accountable to the Public Accounts Committee for how they spend that money and if any salaries are paid using that money then they should be published just like RTÉ.

Isn't a nationalised news organisation the same as a propaganda wing?

If you are going to pay a private company to produce their main public service broadcast requirement I think your starting the idea that a centralized government news organisation that provides the news to the independent broadcaster sector should be established?

Why is the government paying money to private organisations for news and current affairs?

The CnaM should have published before awarding that 3 million to VMTV the total cost of VMTV news before the subvention and how it will improve the service.

To me much of this "work" that the CnaM is doing is funding the license requirements of the Independent Broadcasters.

If we want to nationalise these services, then it is time to do so.

Otherwise they try to earn a curst themselves.