The Virgin Media Television thread

And nothing to stop RTÉ doing that for the Winter Olympics coverage but sure that's another argument for another thread.

Just wanted to clarify my views on the CnaM public subvention to Virgin Media TV (And this goes for all media organizations)

1. If public money's are to be given to independent media outlet then it must all be account for, having worked with community groups, everything has to be account for when dealing with auditors that the council send, this isn't for 3million euro of tax payers money.
2. The government must consider what is the best course, do they directly funding the media with grants or do they create a news organisation that the independent media can tap into, an PA or Reuters type organisation, but as a semi-state body.
3. No public money to independent media, in the case of Virgin Media there is a case to be made that they are a large company and should provide some public service to the country, do we develop a separate public service tax on them that can be spread across the media sector, which would be administered by such companies to avoid any political pressure.

If the Week in Review is simply the same format as before, then how does it qualify for this money?

Why didn't VM just put the earlier Champions League game on a different channel to the later game, when there was always a chance of extra time? They've now switched it to the player, instead of taking a decades old episode of A Touch Of Frost off the air, on VM3. Bloody hell..

Oh I actually misheard him. I thought he said the player. I forget that Play Channel exists, because I have Sky, and it's not on it.

Appears to be the case, and that is a shame. Who wants to listen to a group of people who are all quite clearly of the same political mindset discuss the issues of the day? If they had a special guest each week who was in opposition to the panel, or an expert on a topic they were discussing, then it would have made the show into something unique and worth watching.

My view is that it started as a podcast and was decent, but then they changed it to be TV show first which meant the podcast format suffered.

They have rugby and sports ones, but I'm not sure about politics. Attracting and maintaining an audience for politics pods appears to be a big challenge for them.

They will have to replace it, in fairness to RTÉ their Monday night line up of Docs is really too strong for a politcal chat show to compete with, even if Gavin thinks that it fills the void left by RTÉ's Frontline.

Repeated at 11 tonight on 2 which might be more suitable.