Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:48 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

For this to really be successful the RFL and clubs need to get this channel on Virgin Media as a lot of us are Virgin Media customers and won't be able to get it, I have written to them and they just say they will look at it if the demand arises so get writing everybody please!

What did u put in your e-mail to them?!

Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:06 pm  

Details of my own email to Virgin and their response:

sent Fri 28/10/11

In view of the latest news that Sky Sports will no longer be covering Championship Rugby League and that it is going to be screened exclusively on Premier Sports from 2012, is there any chance that this channel could become available on the Virgin Media platform at some stage in the near future?

If not, there may well be a scenario whereby thousands of rugby league fans in the north of England would look to move their services direct to Sky. I have been with yourselves for many years but I, for one, would not be particularly happy to make such a move but the fact that Virgin Media are not even considering the pay-per-view of Premier Sports will definitely make me reconsider.

I understand that Premier Sports show a wide variety of sports including non-League football. This is a very appealing feature as not everybody follows the Manchester United's, Arsenal's and Liverpool's of this world.

Regards

response Wed 02/11/11

Ref : 26616082

Your query regarding Premier Sports channel has been passed to me to take a look at for you.

We currently have no plans to add this channel to our line-up, should demand for the channel increase and an arrangment with the provider be agreed will we add the service.

We do add new channels and services all the time, most recently we have added the PBS channel to our current line up.

Kind Regards

Marc Voller
Virgin Media Complaints Team

THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT INTERESTED!

CAN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS WITH VIRGIN PLEASE FLOOD THEM WITH EMAILS

Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:32 pm  

Fax Bluenose wrote:

THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT INTERESTED!

CAN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS WITH VIRGIN PLEASE FLOOD THEM WITH EMAILS

OR even could EVERYBODY bombard them with emails (not Just Virgin users)

Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:44 pm  

DewsburyFAX wrote:

OR even could EVERYBODY bombard them with emails (not Just Virgin users)

even better

Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:53 pm  

Premier Sports have been asking people to do that for the last 2 years. Virgin got bombarded when NRL games went to Premier sports, looks like Virgins stance hasn't changed.

Re: tv deal : Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:16 pm  

Someone pen an email and post it on here with an address to send it to so everyone can copy, paste and send. In fact, I've seen Facebook pages for more pathetic reasons so why not exploit that avenue as well?

Re: tv deal : Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:06 pm  

Update, extracted from Virgin Media Forum:

I am responsible for the content proposition for sports and Premium channel offerings at Virgin Media. I appreciate hearing your views on Premier Sports and your interest in having this channel available on Virgin Media. I agree with you in that Premier Sports provides some great coverage of live sporting events and it is evolving into an impressive channel, I am pleased to say that we are in fairly advanced negotiations with Premier Sports and we really hope to launch this channel in the coming months, I’m afraid I don’t have a set date at the moment but if you keep an eye on our website we will keep it updated with launch news. We do constantly review and evolve the channels we make available and try very hard to give everyone something they really want so it's really useful to hear comments from customers like you. This really helps us develop our future thinking and product roadmap.

Kind regards

Emma Jones - General Manager
Future Entertainment Sàrl

AT LAST, SOME POSITIVE NEWS FROM VIRGIN

Re: tv deal : Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:40 pm  

Fax Bluenose wrote:

Update, extracted from Virgin Media Forum:

I am responsible for the content proposition for sports and Premium channel offerings at Virgin Media. I appreciate hearing your views on Premier Sports and your interest in having this channel available on Virgin Media. I agree with you in that Premier Sports provides some great coverage of live sporting events and it is evolving into an impressive channel, I am pleased to say that we are in fairly advanced negotiations with Premier Sports and we really hope to launch this channel in the coming months, I’m afraid I don’t have a set date at the moment but if you keep an eye on our website we will keep it updated with launch news. We do constantly review and evolve the channels we make available and try very hard to give everyone something they really want so it's really useful to hear comments from customers like you. This really helps us develop our future thinking and product roadmap.

Kind regards

Emma Jones - General Manager
Future Entertainment Sàrl

AT LAST, SOME POSITIVE NEWS FROM VIRGIN

Hope that turns out to be true

Re: tv deal : Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:26 pm  

Hope if it is true, they put it on the Virgin XL Package, so I don't have to pay anymore

Re: tv deal : Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:54 pm  

Well done, your next task is get it in HD