Virgin Media users face major shake-up - here's how it will affect your account

03 July 2023 , 14:39

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Virgin Media users face major shake-up - here's how it will affect your account

Millions of Virgin Media customers face one of the biggest TV shake-ups in years tomorrow with the company confirming to Mirror Online that it is making some dramatic changes to its telly planner.

A total of 86 channels are being moved to new positions which means those who have memorised where their favourite shows and movies are broadcast will now have to learn some new numbers on their remote control.

The changes, which come into force from midnight on July 4, include services such as ITV +1, Discovery HD, MTV and Comedy Central +1 which all get new numbers on the planner. This reboot affects all of Virgin's set-top boxes including TiVo, V6, TV360 and its Stream device.

Virgin says it is making the changes to move popular general entertainment channels into more prominent numbers in the TV guide and +1 channels into a dedicated channel range between 300-399

Sadly, if you don't want things to be tinkered with there's no way to stop the update with Virgin saying things will happen automatically overnight.

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It's worth noting that anyone who has set up future recordings shouldn't find they miss anything with Virgin's box making sure it stores the correct content from the new channel number.

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"On 4 July, we will change the numbers of 86 channels in our TV guide across TiVo, V6, TV360 and Stream," Virgin Media confirmed.

So, if you want to get your brain trained and ready for the change, here are some of the new numbers.

CHANNEL CHANGES FROM VIRGIN MEDIA

• 5 USA - new channel 120 - was Ch 153

• 5 Star - new channel 126 - was Ch 151

• Sky History HD - new channel 133 - was Ch 270

• Great! TV - new channel 170 - was Ch 189

• Discovery HD - new channel 177 - was Ch 250

• Animal Planet HD - new channel 178 - was Ch 251

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• National Geographic HD - new channel 183 - was Ch 266

• Sky Documentaries HD - new channel 188 - was Ch 277

• MTV Music - new channel 280 - wass Ch 310

• E4 Extra - new channel 287 - was Ch 337

• E4 + 1 - new channel 306 - was Ch 146

• ITV 2 +1 - new channel 315 - was Ch 116

• Discovery +1 - new channel 377 -was Ch 258

• National Geographic +1 - new channel 383 - was 267

• Gold +1 - new channel 324 - was 194

Dave Snelling