Channel One to close, Challenge to come to Freeview
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV Sky is closing one pay and one free channel from the portfolio it bought from Virgin TV, because they match channels already provided by Sky.
Bravo and Channel One (which was Virgin 1 and before that FTN) will close.
This means that the Channel One slot on Freeview will be replaced with the quiz show channel Challenge.
Challenge is now in the Freeview guide on 46. If you can't see it yet, please follow these instructions on your set-top box or Freeview TV: My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong - ukfree.tv.
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Friday, 4 February 2011
Bally python: Yes, Pick TV and Pick TV+1 will be on Freeview.
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Alan7:20 PM
Does anyone know what the financials wire like on Virgin 1/Channel One? Was it profitable compared to other channels or what?
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I just want to add my voice to the general growling discontent. We loose a good channel on freeview and get shit instead.
i thought that competition had to be fair and that there were regulation in place to avoid that kind of despicable behaviour from the big bosses. I believe sky failed to play by the rule with 'Lost' (channel 4).
I thought Virgin wanted to be a finger raised in the face of Murdock, I was wrong then.
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Stephen9:05 PM
Challenege is also only free to view to freeview customers, sky subscribers and freesat viewers either have to pay to view or dont get the channel at all(in freesats case) so how sky can claim its a free to air channel now is something of a joke.
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Saturday, 5 February 2011
Alan: It didn't matter if it was profitable or not (and it was). Sky bought the channel to close it down, so more people would subscribe to Sky directly.
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leah8:14 AM
sky is sly, why not buy all the other channels on free view and have done! think ill stick to books from now on!
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Kim: BSkyB bought the channels from Virgin, it has nothing to do with Virgin at all.
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Stephen: Sky are not claiming the channel is "free to air". They are claiming that it is on Freeview.
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