Sky Channels On Virgin Media (aka NTL)

[Lolly]

As some of you may have seen on the news Sky and Virgin could not come to an agreement about the amount Virgin should pay for showing certain Sky Channels. As a result those of you with Virgin (NTL) are now missing Sky One & Sky Two, Sky News & Sky Sports News & Sky Travel.

No big loss really. To me anyway, i suppose it is if you watch 24 or Lost and have NTL.

But what is brilliant is on the TV Guide on Virgin where the channels used to be, they have been renamed, Sky News is now Sky Snooze. On Sky Sports News if you press information it says "Sky has packed up its balls and gone home"

I just thought that it was very funny, theres a couple more sarcastic comments aswell. I always thought Richard Branson had a sense of humour!

[slinky]

LMAO!!! classic.

[accymel]

nice one Branson hehehehehehe, shame i cant get cable to save me from greedy robbing crappy sky, good on him hope he'll give em a huge smacker of competition, so get improving the area for cable hehehe Nice to have someone with a brill sarcastic humour LOL!!

[jedimaster]

well done virgin

lmao

[Lolly]

Whenever i've been flicking through channels today, when i go past those certain channels it makes me giggle!!

[accymel]

Hehehehehe i want those virgined channels fpmsl Sky's sence of humour is to cut u off or keep u on hold with expensive bills!

[SPUGGIE J]

Nice sarcastic remarks. Now should Sir Ricky B take lessons of Chav or should it be the other way round?

[accymel]

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Nice sarcastic remarks. Now should Sir Ricky B take lessons of Chav or should it be the other way round?

errrr other way round !! then maybe not we cant too many smart arses can we

[mani]

u know i'd still go to virgin if they ever get around to diggin my st up

cable is awesome

[lancsdave]

I think everyone should back Sir Dicky up on this. If Sky break the other companies imagine what will happen wehn they have the monopoly, you will be paying twice as much for Sky.

Disclaimer : This post holds no bias for Sir Richard Branson

[Neil]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

If Sky break the other companies imagine what will happen wehn they have the monopoly, you will be paying twice as much for Sky.

Sky have the monopoly on satellite now. They have created there system so you need a sky box to receive channels and their box does not really like you adding extra channels. Yes there are channels that your sky box can get that are not on the epg

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Neil

Sky have the monopoly on satellite now. They have created there system so you need a sky box to receive channels and their box does not really like you adding extra channels. Yes there are channels that your sky box can get that are not on the epg

Yes they have a monopoly on satellite but strangely enough not on Sky channels. However if they keep hiking the price up to those competitors who take there channels then they will have a complete monopoly. They are already withdrawing some channels from Freeview in the summer.

[accymel]

I sooo hope Branson is going to cable enable all places cos im sooo sick of the sky dish interferance with bad weather, stuck sky boxes & cant change channels till u switch off & back on. Rib off sky in every sence, i wanna be virgin as is me phone.........hehehehe cheers Dicky for the xtra credit bonus as promised on time - wish every company was as prompt & customer minded

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by accymel

I sooo hope Branson is going to cable enable all places cos im sooo sick of the sky dish interferance with bad weather, stuck sky boxes & cant change channels till u switch off & back on. Rib off sky in every sence, i wanna be virgin as is me phone.........hehehehe cheers Dicky for the xtra credit bonus as promised on time - wish every company was as prompt & customer minded

Pretty sure there are no plans in the immediate future to lay more cable.

[Lolly]

We should then start a petiton for those that cant get Virgin at the moment, i'll start a myspace and let you all know!!!