Thursday 30 December 2021

Best of 2021 - The winners and review of 2021

Here is the winners and review of 2021. 

01) The Biggest poster of the year on Cable Forum (NOT Media Boy HQ): 
Winner is - cheekyangus with 197 posts.

Wednesday 22 December 2021

Confirm: 5Action replaces Paramount Network UK on January 19th

ViacomCBS will replaces both Paramount Network UK HD (Virgin UK Channel 150) and Paramount Network UK (Virgin UK Channel 187) with 5Action HD and 5Action on January 19th.

Tuesday 21 December 2021

DS Forum - Rumour: Is ViacomCBS set to rebrand Paramount Network as 5Action???

A poster over on DS Forum has started a thread called 5Action, is it coming to Freeview? early today. But Media Boy HQ have been working to see if we can find anything on the web to back this rumour up with no luck.

Friday 17 December 2021

Virgin Media Forum: Virgin Media to offer Virgin Media UHD channel for free this Christmas

Story from Virgin Media Forum:

From Saturday 18th December until Friday 31st December, Virgin TV customers with a Virgin TV 360 or V6 box can enjoy our Virgin TV UHD channel (CH 228/999) at no extra cost.

Monday 13 December 2021

RXTV: The BBC has confirmed that CBBC HD Channel will close at 7pm from January 5th ahead of the relaunch of BBC THREE on February 1st

RXTV is reporting that CBBC HD Channel will close at 7pm from January 5th ahead of the relaunch of BBC THREE on February 1st.

Sunday 12 December 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Virgin Media did not launch Discovery + last month (UPDATE)

Media Boy HQ has been told in the last few days by two Media Boy Sources that Discovery + was set to launch on Virgin Media in November but for some reason Virgin Media did not flicked the switch.

Monday 6 December 2021

BT Sport Takeover - Media Mole: Eurosport owner Discovery in talks over BT Sport involvement?

Story from Media Mole: 

Discovery is reportedly in talks with BT about getting involved with BT Sport as a joint-venture partner.

BBC News: Virgin Media outage hits UK TV viewers (UPDATED)

Story from BBC News Online:

Virgin Media customers were left without access to TV services, after the firm suffered a nationwide outage.