Virgin Media channels

Virgin Media TV channels

Player TV

This is the basic Virgin Media TV (www.virginmedia.com) package - but don’t let that put you off. With Player TV you get a good range of free-to-air entertainment, factual, and local channels, along with a ton of radio and ten HD channels included as standard. Plus, loads of them come with '+1' version too so you can catch the stuff you missed an hour ago. Here are the channels you get:

Type	Channels
Entertainment	BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, 4Seven, 5Star, 5 USA, 5 USA +1, BBC ALBA, Challenge, Dave, Drama, E4, Forces TV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVBe, More 4, My5, Pick, Quest, Really, S4C, Spike, TruTV, regional channels, radio
Movies	Film4, Movies4Men, Movies Mix
Factual and lifestyle	The Community Channel, Home, Yesterday
Kids	CBBC, CBeebies, CITV, Pop
Music	4Music, VIVA
News	BBC News, BBC Parliament, CNBC, CNN International, Sky News/p>
Shopping	Create and Craft, Gems TV, Ideal World, Jewellery Maker, QVC, QVC Beauty, QVC Style, The Jewellery Channel
Regional and international	RTE One, RTE Two, TG4
HD	BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5

Mix TV

Upgrading to Mix TV gives you a hefty load more TV. That’s more entertainment, more music, and more news. There’s also a bunch of international channels thrown in too.

Channels include everything in Player TV, plus:

Type	Channels
Entertainment	Alibi, BET, CBS Action, CBS Reality, Comedy Central, DMAX, E!, FOX, GOLD, Horror Channel, MTV, Real Lives, Sky Arts, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky Living, SONY Channel, Syfy, TLC, True Entertainment, Universal Channel, W
Movies	Movies 24, TCM
Sports	Bike, Copa90, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Motors TV, Sky Sports News HQ, Sky Sports Mix
Factual and lifestyle	Food Network, I.D., PBS America, Travel Channel
Kids	Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Kids Extra, Tiddlers TV, Tiny Pop
Music	The Box, Clubland, AKA, Now Music, Kiss, Magic, MTV Music, Vintage TV
News	BBC Worldwide, Bloomberg, Euronews, NDTV 24x7
International	&TV, Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English, ARY News UK, B4U Music, COLORS, France24 English, France24 French, Hum Europe, NDTV India, Nollywood Movies, Rishtey Europe, SONY SAB, UMP Movies, Worldbox, Zing

Fun TV

Fun TV isn't much bigger than Mix TV, but it serves as a very nice boost. There are more factual and documentary channels, a bit more kids' TV, and more music.

Channels include everything in Mix TV, and:

Type	Channels
Factual and lifestyle	Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Discovery History, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, Eden, GINX, God Channel, Good Food, H2, Home and Health, National Geographic Channel
Kids	Nickelodeon, Nick Junior, Nicktoons
Music	Box Hits, Box Upfront, Kerrang, MTV Base, MTV Hits, VH1

Full House TV

This is Virgin Media’s biggest TV package of all, and it lives up to its name with more than 245 channels - a whopping 45 of which are HD. Plus, you get BT Sport.

Channels include everything in Fun TV, plus:

Type	Channels
Entertainment	CBS Drama, Nordic Noir
Sports	BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2, BT Sport 3, BT Sport ESPN
Factual and lifestyle	CI, History, Lifetime
Kids	Cartoonito, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney Original Movies, Disney XD, Sesame Street
Music	MTV Dance, MTV Live, MTV Rocks
HD	All BT Sport channels, Alibi, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Dave, Discovery, E4, Eden, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Film4, FOX, Good Food, H2, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVBe, Lifetime, More 4, MTV, MTV Live, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, NHKworld, Nickelodeon, Sky Arts, Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky News, Sky Sports Mix, Sky Sports News HQ, Syfy, TCM, TLC, Universal Channel, W

You can also upgrade a Full House TV package to VIP, which adds on Sky Cinema and Sky Sports.

Premium channels

Whichever Virgin Media TV package you go for, there’s always the option to add on premium channels for an extra cost - namely kids, international, and adult TV. Here’s what you can get:

Type	Channels
Kids	Baby TV
International	ARY Digital, B4U Movies, NDTV Good Times, NDTV Spice, SONY Max, SONY TV Asia, Star Gold, Star Life OK, Star Plus, Zee Cinema, Zee Punjabi, Zee TV
Adult	Adult Channel, Filth XXX, My Ex Girlfriends, Playboy TV, Red Hot XXX, Television X, Wives XXX, XXX Mums

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