Virgin Media UK Gives TV Customers 17 More Channels Free
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has today announced that they’re giving their existing Pay TV customers access to a further 17 channels, this time including various popular documentary and entertainment channels, at no extra cost until 16th May 2020 to help keep people occupied during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis.
Over the past few weeks the cable giant has given its TV customers access to more than 50 extra channels showing a range of popular kids, entertainment and Sky content at no extra cost. All were also accompanied by various related on-demand content. The latest channels to join this group include Alibi, Animal Planet, Eden, History and National Geographic among others. All are available from today for free.
Virgin Media is also giving its customers free access to their “Get Fit Today” app until 30th April (found in the Apps & Games section on the Tivo and V6 set-top-box), which has a range of workouts from Andreia Brazier, a four times Fitness Model World Champion.
The 17 Extra Channels Unveiled Today
Alibi
Animal Planet
Comedy Central Extra
Crime + Investigation
Discovery History
Discovery Science
Discovery Shed
Discovery Turbo
Eden
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
H2
History
Home and Health
Love Nature
National Geographic
National Geographic Wild
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Their broadband does not work so you have no option but to watch tv!
That’s probably the real reason they’re doing this. Their TV channels are broadcast and consume the same amount of bandwidth regardless of how many people are watching them, so the more people they can move off of internet streaming to TV, the less congested the network becomes.
It’s a good move from a network management perspective. (But a better move would be to not run a network that’s regularly congested.)
Their TV channels aren’t all broadcast. A bunch are unicast.
Also noted on Virgin Mobile that they have renewed the offer of the 10gb free for another month.
Very good offer on mobile phone usage during lockdown thanks. All the extra channels we have anyway no real bonus there a better Internet wider range would be a great provision poor reception upstairs.
Is it legal to watch these with no TV licence?
No, but who’s gonna stop you?
They could give away every channel for free and I still wouldn’t go back to them.
People already have most of the channels are thay going to give them different channels free
Marketing ploy, once this is over and returns to normal, how many customers will want the “free” channels in there package.
“Their!2
“Their!”
How many customers will be seeing “another” monthly price rise?
Spoke to my mother yesterday who has Virgin, I sorted out her new contract last year (around this time with the retention team) at £50 a month for tv/phone/broadband. Just got her bill and its almost £100 for this month alone!
Absolutely appalling company Virgin is. Totally untrustworthy.
Your Discount expired, that’s on you. Not VM.
Whenever there’s a good news story you’ll always find people who will whinge about it.
Its a single unemployed idiot that got kicked off VM yonks ago and is bitter. Been on here for over a year, obviously has nothing better to do.
How do you get kicked off VM other than for not paying your bill? Genuine question.
Not paying your bill when due, constantly wanting discount and making excuses by playing the disability claim card.
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