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ITV threatens to blackout flagship channel on Virgin Media
Cable company unhappy at proposed £80 million retransmission bill
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Virgin Media launches kids TV app
App offers more than 2,000 episodes of on-demand kids TV programming, plus games and books
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Sky, Virgin Media announce partnership
Strategic partnership aims to accelerate brand-safe targeted advertising
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Virgin Media to acquire UTV Ireland
Virgin Media has received regulatory and competition approval to acquire UTV Ireland. The free-to-air channel, launched in January 2015, was bought out by ITV...
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Vubiquity seals Virgin Media extension
Vubiquity has signed a multi-year contract extension with Virgin Media to manage content licensing and digital content supply chain solutions for all of their...
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Virgin unveils V6 box
Virgin Media has revealed new details about its upcoming set-top box. The Liberty Global EOS box, which will be marketed as the Virgin TV...
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Sky extends Vubiquity deal
Vubiquity has secured an exclusive multi-year extension to their wholesale content supply chain contract with Sky. The deal will see Vubiquity manage and deliver...
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Liberty seals major All3Media original programming deal
Liberty Global have agreed a major multi-territorial original programming partnership with All3Media. The deal secures four major original drama series over the next two...
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Atresmedia coming to the UK
Spanish service Atresmedia is bringing two of its channels to the UK. ‘Spanish Viva’ will be available through Virgin Media, making Atresmedia the first...
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Virgin dropping eir Sport
Virgin Media Ireland customers are set to lose out on eir Sport coverage after the company failed to agree a new deal for the...
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Virgin strikes UKTV deal
UKTV has agreed a deal with Virgin Media to deliver its live, catch-up and box set content offering to Virgin customers. The deal will...
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Virgin launching new 4K box
Virgin Media is set to launch a new 4K set-top box in the second half of 2016. The new box will have an upgraded...
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Liberty Global acquires Cable and Wireless for £3.5 billion
Liberty Global has announced its acquisition of London-based Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), in a £3.5 billion deal which the company hopes will boster...
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TV sports packages tempt consumers to premium offers
New research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – has revealed that premium...
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Tony Hanway to head up Virgin Media’s Ireland operations
Virgin Media has appointed Tony Hanway as CEO of its operations in Ireland. Hanway has held a number of roles with Telefonica across Europe
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UPC Ireland to rebrand as Virgin Media
UPC Ireland, provider of digital TV, broadband and phone services in the country, has announced it is to move to the Virgin Media brand
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EBS wins BT Sport contract for multi-platform EPG data support
EBS has been chosen by BT Sport to facilitate the supply of EPG data listings for all its channels: BT Sport 1, BT Sport...
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Liberty Global increases stake in ITV
Liberty Global has increased its stake in broadcaster ITV to 9.9 per cent. The US cable company acquired 138.7 million shares in ITV, thereby...
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Retail OTT STBs to out-sell telco IPTV boxes
Global shipments of over-the-top (OTT) set-top boxes (STBs) sold at retail including Apple TV, Chromecast and Roku boxes, will overtake shipments of IPTV STBs...
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aQ at the Big Centre of Birmingham broadcaster
Big Centre TV (BCTV), Birmingham’s new local TV stations, has gone live with a combination of aQ Broadcast’s QNews newsroom system, aVS video server...
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Virgin Media announces Project Lightning in UK
Virgin Media has announced a £3 billion investment to expand its network, with the support of parent company Liberty Global, giving up to 4...
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Liverpool FC invests in Space
Liverpool Football Club has invested in a new 32TB central video storage unit from GB Labs to power its LFCTV high definition channel.
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Virgin Media expands with Globecast
Globecast has partnered with Virgin Media to supply seven channels for the platform’s expanded international TV content.
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Northern Ireland’s local station goes live
Northern Ireland’s first local TV channel, Belfast-based NvTv, went on air this week.
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Sony Pictures Television to acquire CSC Media Group
SPT has reached an agreement to acquire CSC in the UK
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Vubiquity acquires FilmFlex
Multiplatform video services provider Vubiquity has acquired UK-based FilmFlex Movies
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Arqiva launches 24-hour coverage of Community HD
Community HD will benefit from 24-hour coverage on Freeview, using Arqiva technology.