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If anyone was wondering, Premier Sports is free until 28th February
my.virginmedia.com/customer-news ... ports.html
Enough for the Auckland Nines but not for the start of the NRL. I've not seen any indication of how much the subscription will be after that date.
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If anyone was wondering, Premier Sports is free until 28th February
my.virginmedia.com/customer-news ... ports.html
Enough for the Auckland Nines but not for the start of the NRL. I've not seen any indication of how much the subscription will be after that date.
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Quote ="Pemps"If anyone was wondering, Premier Sports is free until 28th February
my.virginmedia.com/customer-news ... ports.html
Enough for the Auckland Nines but not for the start of the NRL. I've not seen any indication of how much the subscription will be after that date.'"
I've been told that it will remain free to anyone with the XL package and £9.95 for everyone else. This isn't a certainty but it was a Virgin employee who told me that. I hope it's true as it'll mean I get it free!
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Quote ="Pemps"If anyone was wondering, Premier Sports is free until 28th February
my.virginmedia.com/customer-news ... ports.html
Enough for the Auckland Nines but not for the start of the NRL. I've not seen any indication of how much the subscription will be after that date.'"
I've been told that it will remain free to anyone with the XL package and £9.95 for everyone else. This isn't a certainty but it was a Virgin employee who told me that. I hope it's true as it'll mean I get it free!
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"I've been told that it will remain free to anyone with the XL package and £9.95 for everyone else. This isn't a certainty but it was a Virgin employee who told me that. I hope it's true as it'll mean I get it free!'"
Sounds reasonable. When I rang Virgin last week to enquire, the young lady I spoke to had not heard of Premier Sports! I patiently tried to explain and all she could tell me is that an invitation to subscribe will appear on the screen if it is no longer free. She couldn't be bothered to look up my contract details to say whether I will get it free or not.
Definately want it as Sam's debut is I think on live on March 9th against the Eels (7.30am), and hopefully Mossop will be in the opposition.
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| Quote ="Aboveusonlypie"Sounds reasonable. When I rang Virgin last week to enquire, the young lady I spoke to had not heard of Premier Sports! I patiently tried to explain and all she could tell me is that an invitation to subscribe will appear on the screen if it is no longer free. She couldn't be bothered to look up my contract details to say whether I will get it free or not.
Definately want it as Sam's debut is I think on live on March 9th against the Eels (7.30am), and hopefully Mossop will be in the opposition.'"
The customer service from Virgin has always been pretty poor in my experience. But I'm on mate's rates for my XL package so I can't complain too much!
I'm planning on watching quite a few NRL games this year, looking forward to it. Gonna watch 9's too I think but a lot of them are on at silly o'clock so won't be watching live!
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"The customer service from Virgin has always been pretty poor in my experience. But I'm on mate's rates for my XL package so I can't complain too much!
I'm planning on watching quite a few NRL games this year, looking forward to it. Gonna watch 9's too I think but a lot of them are on at silly o'clock so won't be watching live!'"
Not keen on the 9's but will be following NZ Warriors for Sam and Tommy, Eels for Mossop, Wests for Pat and of course Madge's team for the Burgesses as well as Canterburry for Graham. So quite a bit of interest in the NRL. Part of me hopes Sam does really well and proves himself to be world class, and part of me hopes he is poor and comes back to Wigan pronto!!
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| Isnt it free on the XL-TV package anyway?
(Pemps' link is blocked at work)
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| Id heard £7.99 a month, but I hope Yellow Giraffe is right.
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| Quote ="[Gareth"Isnt it free on the XL-TV package anyway?
(Pemps' link is blocked at work)'"
That's what I have been told but nothing has been announced yet.
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| Quote ="Aboveusonlypie"Not keen on the 9's but will be following NZ Warriors for Sam and Tommy, Eels for Mossop, Wests for Pat and of course Madge's team for the Burgesses as well as Canterburry for Graham. So quite a bit of interest in the NRL. Part of me hopes Sam does really well and proves himself to be world class, and part of me hopes he is poor and comes back to Wigan pronto!!'"
Same here, plenty to be interested in this year for fans over here. Not sure my missus will enjoy all 8 games every weekend but there's always the telly in the kitchen for her!
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"Same here, plenty to be interested in this year for fans over here. Not sure my missus will enjoy all 8 games every weekend but there's always the telly in the kitchen for her! icon_smile.gif'"
I hope the wife doesnt mind
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"Same here, plenty to be interested in this year for fans over here. Not sure my missus will enjoy all 8 games every weekend but there's always the telly in the kitchen for her!
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Did virgin not show the Aussie games last year? I'm with Sky and paid for Premier.
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| Quote ="Rogues Gallery"Did virgin not show the Aussie games last year? I'm with Sky and paid for Premier.'"
Premier wasn't available to Virgin customers until the day before the World Cup kicked off.
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| Quote ="Rogues Gallery"Did virgin not show the Aussie games last year? I'm with Sky and paid for Premier.'"
No. Premier was only made available to Virgin Media customers just before the World Cup.
In the latest literature the Virgin sent through to me Premier Sports had been bundled together with the Sky Sports channels as opposed to BT and ESPN. It may well be that it becomes part of the Sky Sports premium package going forward rather than a stand alone channel. I seem to recall that was the basis of the dispute stopping Virgin showing Premier previously as Premier wanted to be part of a bundle to widen its potential viewing base so it could increase advertising revenue.
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| [urlhttp://about.virginmedia.com/press-release/9403/premier-sports-launches-on-virgin-media[/url
Noting much on the official website of both virgin and premier sports.
The link is off the virgin site and is the same on the premier sports website, all it states is the pricing will be announced for 2014 in the coming months !
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"Same here, plenty to be interested in this year for fans over here. Not sure my missus will enjoy all 8 games every weekend but there's always the telly in the kitchen for her! icon_smile.gif'"
And she can do the washing up while she's in there, win win situation.
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| Quote ="twosevenzero"And she can do the washing up while she's in there, win win situation.'"
Why do you think I paid for the telly to go in there in the first place!?
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| Quote ="The Yellow Giraffe"Why do you think I paid for the telly to go in there in the first place!?
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| Quote ="Rogues Gallery"Did virgin not show the Aussie games last year? I'm with Sky and paid for Premier.'"
I have been with Sky since the GB tour to Aus in 1992, mainly for the RL even though I watch all the top soccer matches, over the last few years I have come to be very disillusioned about how the prices keep going up.
In fact a couple of times in the last 3/4 years I have phoned Sky up and told them that I could not afford to keep up payments, after much pleading and being passed to and fro between press No1 then press No2 I have been given a reduction of about a tenner a month off for 3 month.
But when it was announced that Sky wasn't even interested in showing the World Cup and BT seemed to be grabbing a good share of the big soccer matches I cracked again and phoned Sky and told them the prices had got to be to much.
I was asked why, so I told him if Sky could not be bothered to show the RL World Cup (I mentioned that RL was my main interest) and that they seemed to be losing a lot of the big soccer games maybe it was time to leave.
The bloke from Sky without even trying to explain Sky's position said "you can have Sky Sports half price until April and when that deal runs out I should phone them again".
I have the feeling that Sky may be running scared.
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| Had it confirmed by Virginmedia(via twitter) that Premier sports will be 7.99 a month no matter what package you have. i am on the top one so not happy at all!
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| Quote ="GazzaPieman"Had it confirmed by Virginmedia(via twitter) that Premier sports will be 7.99 a month no matter what package you have. i am on the top one so not happy at all!'"
Same here im on the XL package and on that basis they will be getting kicked firmly into touch.
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| £7.99 per month for 8 NRL games every week and State of Origin. Absolute bargain.
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| Quote ="GazzaPieman"Had it confirmed by Virginmedia(via twitter) that Premier sports will be 7.99 a month no matter what package you have. i am on the top one so not happy at all!'"
Premier Sports are advertising on Facebook the price of £95 for twelve months which they say is a reduction of £30 from the normal price. Seems as though you have to take a contract for the full year so you can't pack it in when the rugby is over. At the moment it just seems to be one bleedin' ice hockey match after another.
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| Hmmm. £7.99 x 12 = £95.88. I'll leave that offer thanks
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