Channel One and Bravo - kaputt

[Matt Damon]

Sky (The Evil Empire) has effectively abandoned FreeView viewers.

What's Chico gonner do now at this time of night now?

Cynical snide is that Murdoch.

 

[chicoazul]

I don't watch TV lid, it's mostly tosh.

 

[Lynne x]

Sky (The Evil Empire) has effectively abandoned FreeView viewers.

What's Chico gonner do now at this time of night now?

Cynical snide is that Murdoch.

Same as Lao probably xx

 

[Matt Damon]

I don't watch TV lid, it's mostly tosh.

Now come on... admit it.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

Just noticed Channel 1 is gone myself. WTF are we paying for?

 

[Matt Damon]

Just noticed Channel 1 is gone myself. WTF are we paying for?

Its typical ANTI COMPETITIVE Murdoch.

Buys up Living TV group ... then closes down several of their stations.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

Its typical ANTI COMPETITIVE Murdoch.

Buys up Living TV group ... then closes down several of their stations.

Bravo was ace too. Always was something on there to watch at 2am.

 

[sharron]

Sky (The Evil Empire) has effectively abandoned FreeView viewers.

What's Chico gonner do now at this time of night now?

Cynical snide is that Murdoch.

off subject but I used the word snide today in work for the first time in years I am blaming you for this turn of events Matt!

 

[Matt Damon]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/04/bskyb-buys-virgin-media-channels

Went from: BSkyB's Jeremy Darroch calling "Virgin Media Television 'an attractive investment opportunity"

in June 2010

to:

Sophie Turner Laing, the managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast operations at BSkyB

It was decided that Channel One, which was rebranded from Virgin 1 in August following BSkyB's acquisition of Living TV Group for £160m in July, was too similar to Sky3, which it sits alongside as a free-to-air channel on Freeview.

BSkyB is understood to have decided to jettison Bravo, which launched as a cable channel in 1985, because it reaches a similar demographic to Sky1 but is not believed to have the same brand equity or reach.


All that in 3 months! :huh:

PULL THE OTHER ONE MURDOCH

The definition of ANTI COMPETITIVE

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/04/bskyb-buys-virgin-media-channels

Went from: BSkyB's Jeremy Darroch calling "Virgin Media Television 'an attractive investment opportunity"

in June 2010

to:

Sophie Turner Laing, the managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast operations at BSkyB

It was decided that Channel One, which was rebranded from Virgin 1 in August following BSkyB's acquisition of Living TV Group for £160m in July, was too similar to Sky3, which it sits alongside as a free-to-air channel on Freeview.

BSkyB is understood to have decided to jettison Bravo, which launched as a cable channel in 1985, because it reaches a similar demographic to Sky1 but is not believed to have the same brand equity or reach.


All that in 3 months! :huh:

PULL THE OTHER ONE MURDOCH

Why? Just why? You could have just quit at your opening gambit.

 

[Nordecke]

off subject but I used the word snide today in work for the first time in years I am blaming you for this turn of events Matt!

I said "Beards" with my friends here in the states and I got a "WTF are you talking about"

Haven't used "Mate" yet, but I'm sure it will slip, as much as I'm on here.

 

[Matt Damon]

Why? Just why? You could have just quit at your opening gambit.

Because everyone's got to be in full possession of the facts man.


Murdoch's a proper snide. And I want him OUT of the UK.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

I said "Beards" with my friends here in the states and I got a "WTF are you talking about"

Haven't used "Mate" yet, but I'm sure it will slip, as much as I'm on here.

You live here.

Because everyone's got to be in full possession of the facts man.


Murdoch's a proper snide. And I want him OUT of the UK.

Ok carry on trucking.

 

[linglong]

It had something to do with sky buying virgins channels up they had to get rid of a couple of theirs etc all ball cocks tbh Bravo in particular had been circling the top of the bowl for years but just for old times sake you'd have thought they'd have kept the name if only for branding etc.

In this case i blame beardy Branson for this,not because he's at fault mainly because he has a beard

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Unbelievable, just noticed after I read this that it's gone. Do one Murdoch you sly snidey git.