Virgin 1 is the flagship television channel that Virgin Media Television broadcast. The channel was launched on 1 October 2007 at 9pm on Freeview, Virgin TV and Sky Digital UK, replacing Ftn. The channel is intended to be Virgin Media's attempt to create a rival to Sky One with the advantage of having a wider reach of viewers. The channel will intially have a £40 million budget as well as being funded through advertising revenue. The One account Ltd is single-brand subsiduary financial services company offering offset and flexible mortgages in the UKs. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ... Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) is a British television company and is entirely owned by the British cable company Virgin Media (previously known as NTL and Telewest) and acts as its television programme production arm. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... For other uses, see FTN. Ftn (Flextech Television Network) was a television channel from Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital. ... Virgin Media Television is set to launch Virgin Central, a TV channel which is based on video- on- demand, on Virgin Media, from 20 February 2007. ... This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... BT Vision is a service provided in the United Kingdom supplied by BT Group. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... UPC Ireland N.V. is Liberty Global Europes operation in Ireland. ... Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) is a British television company and is entirely owned by the British cable company Virgin Media (previously known as NTL and Telewest) and acts as its television programme production arm. ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ... This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... For a wider corporate history and profile, see British Sky Broadcasting. ... For other uses, see FTN. Ftn (Flextech Television Network) was a television channel from Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

The channel is broadcast 24 hours on Freeview, cable and satellite complemented with the Virgin 1 +1 service (not available on Freeview). As Ftn only broadcast for 12 hours on Freeview, Virgin 1 will broadcast on Freeview from 6pm until 6am, contrary to belief that it would broadcast 24 hours a day. However, as abc1 has closed, Virgin 1 may use this space on their multiplex to extend the hours of Freeview broadcasting. ABC1 is a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney utilizing the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC. The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on September 27, 2004. ...

The www.virgin1.co.uk website will have schedules, programme information as well as social networking facilities.

Launch Night

The Channel started by showing three hours of looped previews accompanied by a countdown between 6pm and 9pm. The rest of The Virgin 1 launch Night schedule is as follows:

• 18.00: Previews
• 21.00: Criminal Minds
• 22.00: The Riches
• 23.15: Penis Envy
• 00.15: Dog the Bounty Hunter
• 00.45: Dog the Bounty Hunter
• 01.15: 2006 World Cup Poker
• 02.15: Ultimate Poker Challenge
• 03.10: Gadgets and Stuff
• 03.35: Gadgets and Stuff
• 04.05: Takeshi's Castle
• 04.30: Takeshi's Castle
• 05.00: Home Shopping

Programming

The schedule for Virgin 1 currently consists of a mixture of American and British comedy, drama and factual programming. The channel is pitched towards its female-targeted channel Living and the male-targeted channel Bravo. The channel also shows commissioned content from Living, Bravo, Challenge and Trouble. Virgin 1 is expected to also show some of the better content from Ftn and current content of which Virgin Media Television holds the terrestrial rights to. Living is a British television channel owned by Virgin Media Television. ... Bravo is a British television channel, owned by Virgin Media Television. ... Challenge is a British digital TV channel owned by Virgin Media Television. ... Trouble is a television station in the UK and Republic of Ireland, owned by Virgin Media Television. ...

Some programmes that are shown on Virgin 1 include:

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References

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External links

• Virgin 1
• Virgin Media TV
• Virgin 1 Pre-launch Promotion on YouTube