VIVA to be removed from Freeview

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benriggers 9 February 2015 9:22pm

The Aussie soap omnibuses seemed to have failed to turn up this year, after a fairly long campaign about it.

I thought they had been showing them? Don't watch Viva (or soaps in all) but did read on listings websites that they were showing them. Perhaps they were dropped last minute?

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watchingtv 9 February 2015 9:25pm

Definately not on last couple of weeks, and not on this week. UKTOP 40 tends to be on Saturday mornings & this week a comedy series is on the Sunday.

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This Is Granada 10 February 2015 5:05pm

benriggers posted:

watchingtv posted:

The Aussie soap omnibuses seemed to have failed to turn up this year, after a fairly long campaign about it.

I thought they had been showing them? Don't watch Viva (or soaps in all) but did read on listings websites that they were showing them. Perhaps they were dropped last minute?

Neighbours and Home & Away have not been shown on Viva at all this year.

They lasted all of 3/4 weeks during December 2014, and have been axed by the channel due to turkey ratings.

You would of thought 5* would show them as a quick and cheep filler for 'dead airtime' on Saturdays/Sunday afternoons.?!?!

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Brekkie 10 February 2015 5:53pm

On demand has arguably killed off the soap omnibus.

(October 2014)