The Virgin Left Behind

On July of this year, British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB) bought Virgin Media Television for £160m and in doing so acquired Virgin1, a channel offering programming like That 70s Show, I want to Work for Diddy, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which achieved their highest viewing ratings). To help complete BskyB’s acquisition, they have rebranded Virgin1 to be Channel One.Channel One will continue to embody the wit and warmth of Virgin1 and inherits the jam-packed schedule that has propelled the channel to the market-beating growth over the last few years.”— Jonathan Webb, managing director of Channel One’s parent company, the Living TV Group As a final piece of context, it was recently announced that Channel One will be shut down as BskyB has deemed i