Virgin Media drops Sky channels

Confirmed - as of midnight on 1st March, the Sky channels, Sky One, Sky Two, Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel vanished from Virgin Media's Cable TV lineup.

This happened after Virgin Media failed to agree to Sky's terms for ongoing broadcast of the Sky channels on Virgin's Cable platform.

We covered this story on Show 12 of FrequencyCast, our podcast, which was released just after Virgin's Sky channels went dark.

If you want to continue to watch Sky One, for shows like 24 and Lost, you'll need to sign up to Sky - £26 a month gets you Broadband, Home phone, and more channels than are available to Virgin Media customers. See www.sky.com/skycom for more on this package.