Virgin Media is a company in the United Kingdom, that provides TV, internet services, and telephone services to customers. The company is owned by Virgin Media O2, which is a joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefonica, it also owns its own fiber-optic cable network in the united kingdom, in 2012 it had approximately four million subscribers to its cable services and about three million subscribers to its TV services, the Virgin TV, the TV is a digital pay cable service in the UK, it was formed from largest cable operators, the NTL and Telewest after their Merger. Let us know more detail about ‘What Channel Is Fox On Virgin Media?’.
What Channel Is Fox On Virgin Media?
The Cable TV depending on your subscription offers a range of channels for customers to tap into which include the family-loved Fox on channel 158, the channel joined the Virgin TV lineup back in 2009 after which it was rebranded as Fox HD 2013, 4 years later, as the change was enacted, the demographic the channel targeted switched to all genders that were aged between 18 and 35 years (adult content) with the inclusion of new programs like Louie, the Ricki Lake show, Da Vinci’s Demon and other similar shows, as at 2021, Fox also stopped broadcasting to the UK.
FOX closing operations in the UK
On the 17th of May 2021, the adult-targeted channel announced that it would be stopping its operations in the UK and Ireland following a lack of viewers, with most of its content to be moved to star, a content hub within the Disney+ streaming service, which was launched on the 23rd of February, 2021, the channel closed at the end of June with all the channels moving to star hub of Disney+, all the sites, and programming for the channel was being redirected to Disney+, the last show to air on the channel was the republic of Doyle, season 5 ep 12, the show started in 2010 and ended in December 2014, and was a Canadian comedy-drama tv series.
Star+ channel on Virgin Media
If you are a Fox channel fan and you are looking to watch shows and programming that the channel shows on virgin media, you can watch some of the programs on the star and star+ channels which are both subsidiaries of Disney+, the channel is not yet on the virgin TV but will soon be made available on channel 803 on Virgin Media TV.
How to watch Fox in the UK?
If you miss the content Fox provides and you are not just satisfied with the watch a few of the programs that were moved to star on Disney+, you can watch the channel in the UK through a couple of ways, one of which is through the use of a VPN, Fox may have stopped operations in the UK but still have services operable in the United States. To watch FOX from the UK, you can download a VPN – you may need to do research on the best VPNs to use especially if you are looking for a free one, some VPNs to download include Proton VPN, Windscribe, and ExpressVPN – once you have chosen and downloaded a VPN of choice then follow the steps below.
- Open the VPN and select the United States as your server
- Go to the Virgin TV streaming service and click on Fox
- You should be able to watch the shows shown.
The only downside to this is that VPNs do not work on cable subscriptions so you may need to stream the channel using either the Virgin TV app or the on-the-go service, Virgin Media offers to its customers.
Conclusion
If you are wondering why you can’t stream the channel in the UK, it is because the country is blocking your connection, so you either opt for viewing the channel on the star by Disney +, which is just a limited amount of programs shown, the channel, however, is still available in the United States where it still has rights to broadcast its content, the channel blocks all incoming IP addresses coming from the UK and to get around this you would need to mask your address or rather protect it using a VPN if you want to access the channel from the UK.
FAQs
- Why is Fox UK not available to watch on Cable TV?
The channel lost its license to show its contents in the United Kingdom and would be in breach of UK laws if citizens of the country accessed its content.
- Is Fox a free-to-air channel?
The channel is a free over-the-air station licensed to operate in the United States, but you can stream the channel using either HULU+ Live TV, Youtube TV, or Direct Tv, if you are using a VPN you can access it using Virgin TV which is based in the UK.
