Virgin TV
Virgin TV is a digital pay cable television service in the United Kingdom, owned by Liberty Global (50%) and Telefónica (50%) after the merger its UK businesses to form Virgin Media O2. Its origins date from NTL and Telewest, formerly two of the UK's largest cable operators, which merged on 6 March 2006. All NTL:Telewest services were rebranded as Virgin Media in February 2007. Since the acquisition of Smallworld Cable in 2014, Virgin is the sole national cable TV provider in Great Britain.[1] Currently about 51% of UK households have access to Virgin's network, which is independent from BT's Openreach network.[2][3]
For other uses, see Virgin TV (disambiguation).Type
Cable television
March 2006
(February 2007 as Virgin TV)
United Kingdom
Liberty Global (50%)
Telefónica (50%)
Virgin ranks as the UK's second-largest pay TV service, and the service is provided in conjunction with Virgin Media broadband and phone.[2] As of Q3 2007, it had 3.6 million subscribers, compared to 8.2 million on its traditional rival Sky.[4] As of 2009, Virgin's digital cable television currently uses the Nagravision 3 conditional access system.[5][6] The service was fully digitalised in 2013.
Since November 2016, the service's flagship set top box is the TiVo-powered Virgin V6 Box, or the Virgin TV 360 which has an updated HORIZON interface,[7] competing with Sky Q.[8]