Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:35 pm  

Still keep sending my monthly groan to Virgin Media about providing a platform for Premier Sports and actually had a phone call from them yesterday afternoon to say that they expect to announce that Premier Sports will be available in the next few weeks.

Extract 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.....
Kind regards Emma

Emma Jones - General Manager
Future Entertainment Sàrl

Will update if I hear anything else.

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:28 pm  

I'm pretty sure I saw a post containing an almost identical statement from Virgin a few months ago. Be good if they do strike a deal, be even better if they put the Channel in the "XL Package"

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:45 pm  

Brew wrote:

I'm pretty sure I saw a post containing an almost identical statement from Virgin a few months ago. Be good if they do strike a deal, be even better if they put the Channel in the "XL Package"

Yeah hope they make it free to XL TV customers. They did it with Setanta Sports and they now do it with ESPN so hope they do the same with Premier Sports

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:46 pm  

Halifax RLFC 4eva wrote:

Yeah hope they make it free to XL TV customers. They did it with Setanta Sports and they now do it with ESPN so hope they do the same with Premier Sports

Free to XL customers would be a bonus, we can live in hope

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:55 pm  

Sent another email to them lets hope, keep hassling them folks.

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:26 pm  

Mon 09/01/2012 17:32 Latest response via Twitter:
virginmedia Virgin Media
@Sinton1 We've got no news at the moment, but if anything changes we'll keep you posted. KD

Yes, let's keep badgering 'em.

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:05 pm  

I'm with Sky, but thought i'd send one anyway...hope it helps!!!

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:38 am  

Even if you get it with the sports package its a Bonus.
I'm gonna tweet them!

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:09 pm  

From our website: http://www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=6758 We're Starting a Virgin Campaign Friday 6th January 2012 We're Starting a Virgin Campaign Story in brief: Help get Premier Sports on Virgin Media With the season now so close we're continuing our push for people to sign up for Premier Sports, but so far many comments have been made about the package not available on Virgin Media. So we're starting a campaign to get added to the media platform, and you can help by posting on their social media and sending them emails. Help out today, whether you use Virgin or not. Key points: Rugby League fans have missed out on the NRL for the last 2 year and now with Premier Sports picking up the Championship Rugby League coverage they won’t be able to view 32 live Rugby League games from England not to mention all the NRL. As a Rugby League fan, if Premier don’t get onto Virgin I am go to move everything to Sky. Contacts: Forum: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/TV/bd-p/tv Twitter: @virginmedia Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/virginmedia

From our website: http://www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=6758 We're Starting a Virgin Campaign Friday 6th January 2012 We're Starting a Virgin Campaign Story in brief: Help get Premier Sports on Virgin Media With the season now so close we're continuing our push for people to sign up for Premier Sports, but so far many comments have been made about the package not available on Virgin Media. So we're starting a campaign to get added to the media platform, and you can help by posting on their social media and sending them emails. Help out today, whether you use Virgin or not. Key points: Rugby League fans have missed out on the NRL for the last 2 year and now with Premier Sports picking up the Championship Rugby League coverage they won’t be able to view 32 live Rugby League games from England not to mention all the NRL. As a Rugby League fan, if Premier don’t get onto Virgin I am go to move everything to Sky. Contacts: Forum: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/TV/bd-p/tv Twitter: @virginmedia Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/virginmedia

Re: Premier Sports Virgin Campaign : Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:24 pm  

Got a reply: Dear Michael

Thank you for reaching out to us about Premier Sports, we always welcome feedback from our customers.
Virgin Media does not typically comment on commercially sensitive negotiations with channel providers, however, we can confirm that we are in talks with Premier Sports and as soon as there is something to announce we will do so. We continuously strive to provide our customers with the best quality and most popular channels in the market, but we have to balance cost and potential demand when we assess new channel launches.

We are delighted to offer our customers a fantastic line up of sports channels which includes all four Sky Sports channels plus Sky Sports News, Eurosport, ESPN (at no extra cost to XL customers) and a growing list of specialist sports channels, including Racing UK, Man Utd TV, Liverpool TV, At the Races, PrimeTime, and the recent launch of Box Nation. We’re also delighted to be offering all our basic TV subscribers a free month of ESPN in January. We hope that you enjoy the service.

Thanks again,
Kind regards

Emma