The Virgin Media Television thread

All I said that when The Dunphy Show premiered over 20 years ago, it might have survived had it aired on Saturday where it would not have had the competition of TLLS or any other RTÉ chat show. You can pick at Pat's Failures as much as Eamonn's and you can also point to their successes.

IMO at the time TV3 didn't really want an kind of expensive programming and the used it as a scapegoat not to make TV.

I think his crying is the empathy, can cry that much with out empathy. Unlikely RTÉ run much training now.

I did the Bil Keating course should I apply now ! get my own show ! He sadly passed away a month or so ago.

I've read the listings for VM4 and I think: What the hell is the point of that channel?!

I've tried to keep track of their listings, but literally every day is different. There is no pattern to the listings.

Have noticed though that there is a big change when a new month occurs. If you take a look at 30th Nov to 1st Dec, a number of programmes or certain series of shows stop. Biggest & Baddest, The Chase USA amongst a few. Which makes me believe its a way to squeeze out every last inch of a show before they lose the rights.

They're showing a lot of Six Nations Rugby from 2022 in full, and then classic ones from over the past 20 years. Highlights from the Autumn Rugby games, Sport Stories repeats, ROI football highlights. So really it's another VM More daytime which has the sports highlights & archive stuff.

They did actually have a new Irish production on it yesterday - The Travel Show. (They really need to get more imaginative with these names). By Ed Finn, he's done a few Northern Ireland specials for them in the past few years. Not sure if UTV show them as well. https://www.sofftproductions.com/recent-work/the-travel-show

VMMore are showing some new British drama's this week - Four Lives, The Walk-In and Suspect.

How does WWTBAM retain its audience and how do they get away with it repeating every weekend... perhaps this weekend was a new series, I am kind of lost. Has it ever taken a break on VMTV one?

I don't think VMTV have the movies for a big movie slot on Sunday and haven't in the last 15 or so years.

Sunday and Wednesday nights a by-gone era.

VM More airing ITVX programming like Tell Me Everything and Litvinenko over the coming days. These are programmes that haven't aired on ITV yet, but launched on their new streaming service in the past week.

Will he be replaced? The random program selector is doing an acceptable job.

Or that VMTV have found its market? It could be that VMTV as a "group" (like I suppose "the TV3 Group" if you want) is only ever going to average between 18 and 20% of the audience.

VMT Total

• Oct 18.84% (with FOUR)
• Sept 19.27% (with FOUR)
• Aug 19.89%
• July 19.89%
• June 20.71%
• May 17.74%
• Apr 17.95%
• Mar 17.95%
• Feb 18.88% (with SPORT)
• Jan 17.80% (with SPORT)

MORE is not provided.

Irish TV channels tend to cannibalise themselves. 45% - 50% of the audience move between the Irish Channels, if RTÉ2 has a good month most likely it is reflected in a bad month for VMTV channels, if VMTV ads 1% RTÉ ONE sees a slight drop.

The highest audience share for Irish TV channels was in Nov 2020 with 49.65% share of the audience the lowest was in July 2015 with 41.77%.

Going back to UTV Ireland, even with plans for other content it was only ever going to eat into what little audience Irish channels had, with perhaps some retention for UTV proper audience, which by 2014 had dwindled to about 2 to 3% of the audience share in any given month.

Out of interest is ITVX available in ROI without a VPN?

I was watching the tv channel Challenge (don’t ask) but Virgin Media are advertising the virgin player on that today. Haven’t noticed them advertise on other channels before

It does have Irish ads but I just thought it was strange VM player was being advertised on other channels. It was advertising rupaul's drag race , G Norton, the soaps etc You’d never see the RTÉ player advertised outside of RTÉ channels