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Virgin Media Television




  network Type Broadcast Television
  available National & International
  owner Virgin Media
  key People Catrin Jones (Production Associate)
  launch Date 2007
  past Names United Artists Ltd, Flextech
  website wwwvirginmediatvcouk


Virgin Media Television (formerly known as '''Flextech''') is a British Television company owned entirely by the British cable company Virgin Media (previously known as ''NTL:Telewest'') and acts as its television programme production arm.

Virgin Media Television owns a number of British channels, available on Digital Terrestrial ( Freeview ), Satellite ( Sky Digital ) and Cable platforms. Virgin Media Television also owns Minotaur International , which is responsible for international sales of most programmes commissioned by Virgin Media Television.1

Virgin Media Television started life as United Artists (Programming) Ltd, a division of Croydon-Based United Artists Cable. As part of the formation of Telewest, it was the subject of a management buy-out and was re-purchased by the (then much enlarged) Telewest Communications in 2000.

On February 8 2007 Flextech was renamed Virgin Media Television as part of a rebranding exercise covering NTL:Telewest, Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net.

Virgin Media TV will launch a new entertainment channel, Virgin 1 , in the autumn. This channel will replace Ftn on Digital Terrestrial Television . 23


CHANNELS OPERATED BY VIRGIN MEDIA TELEVISION


Virgin branded channels



Other channels

The company operates ten television channels plus a number of time shifted channels, all available on Satellite and Cable television services, with Ftn also available on Freeview .


Through Sit-Up TV , the company also controls:

Virgin Media Television own 50% of UKTV (along with BBC Worldwide ), which runs a further eleven channels.


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