July 27, 2018

Virgin Media signs new ITV agreement

ITV has reached an agreement with Virgin Media to continue to make its channels available to the company's 4 million TV customers for the next three years.

The deal, which ends more than a year of discussions that were acrimonious at times, comes after ITV delivered an ultimatum to Virgin Media to reach a deal this week or potentially face a blackout of shows such as Love Island and Coronation Street.

More info at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/27/virgin-media-reaches-deal-itv-access-channels?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

18 comments:

Royalbeech said...

Now that's sorted, VM will go back to the table with UKTV, expect Dave and Co back on the screen within the next few weeks....

Unknown said...

Please bring back UKTV

Chris said...

I only really watch itv4 but I’m happy they agreed for everyone’s benefit.

Now they can focus on giving us 4K channels, an Apple TV / smart TV app like BT have and whatever else they can do to move forward technologically.

Unknown said...

Let something give give us back our UKTV

RobKing said...

Bt 4k uhd channel now on virgin media channel 555

Unknown said...

Bt sport 4k picture any good?

Believe in better said...

Top picture, if you go from SD-HD-4K UHD, it’s like heaven

Notlenks64 said...

Wow Virgin Media will now put the prices up and we’ll be paying more money for TV that’s already free.
Would be nice to get some content that’s not already available on freeview.

Royalbeech said...

Oh, by the way, if you go onto BT website at the moment to see if you can get it any cheaper (you can't) you will see that they will be putting price's up in September, which believe it or not is their annual increase, Like virgin do in March and sky do sometime once a year. Anyway yes we lost UKTV for the meantime, but it will be back so...

Unknown said...

I thought quest HD and premier sports 2 were launching today any new
s when this will be

Unknown said...

I thought quest HD and premier sports 2 were launching today any new
s when this will be

Unknown said...

I didn’t care about ITV , I think VM should be working harder to sort out the problem with UKTV and do it quickly or end up losing more loyal
VM customers

Unknown said...

This was on their Facebook page .....
Please be informed that Premier Sports 2 will be available on Virgin Media channel 552 as from the 01/08/2018.
Kind Regards,
Sue
Customer service
Premier Sports
Customer

Notlenks64 said...

Isn’t Premier Sports only available for two months then you need to pay?

Notlenks64 said...

CH552 PS2

Unknown said...

I believe that's correct

Royalbeech said...

Quest HD turned up today CH 217

Irishmanc said...

I never had any doubt that ITV would strike a deal being that Virgin Media/Liberty Global are their biggest shareholder.