Virgin Media TV customers get new channels for free – with almost 100 hours of additional shows per day
Four new channels are now available for free on Virgin TV 360 and Stream
Quick Summary
Virgin TV 360 and Stream customers get four new channels for free from today.
They include 24 hour channels for Robot Wars and The Hotel Inspector, so you can watch classic episodes all day if you want.
Virgin Media regularly rewards its customers with new content and channels, and the latest free additions are available from today.
All Virgin TV 360 and Stream customers will find four new channels have arrived on their electronic programme guides, with a sum total of 96 hours worth of TV shows a day to watch at no extra cost.
That's because each of the new channels will be broadcast 24 hours a day, and as they are FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV) stations, you don't have to do anything else to get them. You just need your device connected to the internet.
That's why they are exclusive to the Virgin TV 360 box and Virgin Media's own streaming puck, the Stream.
The channels that have been added (and their respective EPG slots) are:
- Robot Wars (235)
- Demand Drama (236)
- River Monsters (239)
- The Hotel Inspector (253)
How useful they'll be to you depends entirely on how much you enjoy the subjects, of course. Personally, I can't enough of Robot Wars (having been vaguely involved in its conception back in the 90s).
It may have broadcast its last episode in 2018, but you can watch decades of classic battles and seasons on the new channel.
I'm also a sucker for The Hotel Inspector, although I'm not quite sure I can stomach 24 hours a day of finding people's pubic hairs in bed and breakfasts. Maybe it's one to drop in on at time to time.
These new stations join a growing list of other FAST channels, with 40 of them already available on the platform. There will be more to be added later this year and beyond, the provider tells T3, so we'll keep you up to date in any further developments.
