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Virgin TV Customers to See the HD Clearer Picture for No Monthly Fee [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 22 hours 57 minutes ago
Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED)(LSE:VMED), the UK's leading digital entertainment company, is to make HD TV more affordable by ensuring customers do not need to pay extra for stunning High Definition.


Virgin Media Launches Process to Refinance Senior Facilities Agreement [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 16 hours 42 minutes ago
Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VMED) (LSE:VMED), a leading UK entertainment and communications business, today announced that it has entered into a new senior facilities agreement, under which Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, BofA Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, GE Capital, Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, RBS and UBS have agreed to make available to certain subsidiaries of Virgin Media a term loan A facility in an aggregate principal...


Watch the World Cup in HD with Virgin Media and ITV [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 20 hours 57 minutes ago
Virgin Media’s (NASDAQ:VMED)(LSE:VMED) digital TV customers will be able to enjoy football’s World Cup in full High Definition (HD) glory as the ITV1 HD channel joins the company’s TV line-up on April 2nd.


SCI FI HD to be beamed up to Virgin TV viewers [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 21 hours 56 minutes ago
Virgin Media, the UK's leading digital entertainment company, has signed an agreement with Universal Networks International to make the SCI FI channel available to its digital TV customers in High Definition.


Virgin Media to Trial Ultrafast Broadband over Telegraph Poles [Press Release]
Business Wire | 9 days 22 hours 57 minutes ago
Virgin Media (LSE:VMED) today announced a pioneering new trial using telegraph poles to deliver ultrafast 50Mb broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton. By connecting homes directly to Virgin Media's fibre optic network, the trial will effectively increase broadband speeds more than ten-fold* in a rural community that has previously relied on BT’s copper network. As well as ultrafast broadband, villagers will be offered Virgin Media's TV service, including around 5,000 hours of catch...


Film4 HD To Launch Exclusively On Virgin Media [Press Release]
Business Wire | 12 days 22 hours 11 minutes ago
Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED) (LSE:VMED) today announced the upcoming launch of Film4 HD and E4 HD on its digital TV platform. Virgin Media’s digital TV customers will be the first to watch Film4 in glorious High Definition (HD) as the channel launches exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.


Virgin Media Expands Kids Line-up with Cartoonito [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 21 hours 57 minutes ago
Virgin Media (LSE:VMED)(NASDAQ:VMED) today announced a new agreement with Turner Broadcasting to make available the popular preschool kids’ channel Cartoonito to its 3.7 million digital TV customers for the first time, as well as a range of Cartoonito shows on demand. As part of the expanded line-up of content, Virgin Media has also secured the rights to bring a range of Turner Broadcasting content available to its customers, both online and through mobiles.


Virgin Media - Fourth Quarter 2009 Results [Press Release]
Business Wire | 24 days 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) announces results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009.


Virgin Media Customers to Get Discovery HD Channel and More HD Programmes on Demand [Press Release]
Business Wire | 38 days 22 hours 56 minutes ago
Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED) (LSE:VMED), the UK's leading entertainment and communications company, has confirmed its TV customers will soon be able to enjoy Discovery HD as well as more HD shows on demand, as part of the company’s growing High-Definition offering.


Virgin Media to Launch Flagship 100Mb Broadband [Press Release]
Business Wire | 24 days 1 hour 56 minutes ago
Virgin Media, the UK’s leading internet service provider, today announced it would begin the roll-out of a 100Mb broadband service, the fastest available commercial product in the UK, by the end of 2010.


Research and Markets: Virgin Media Inc. - SWOT Framework Analysis [Press Release]
Business Wire | 22 days 18 hours 24 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e21601/virgin_media_inc) has announced the addition of the "Virgin Media Inc. - SWOT Framework Analysis" company profile to their offering.


Virgin Media Announces Pricing of 1.5 Billion Equivalent of Senior Secured Notes Due 2018 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 66 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VMED)(LSE:VMED), a leading UK entertainment and communications business, today announced the pricing of the offering of approximately £1.5 billion equivalent aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2018, split into a $1.0 billion U.S. dollar denominated tranche and a £875 million sterling denominated tranche of its wholly-owned subsidiary Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A und...


Virgin Media Selects TiVo For Next Generation TV Platform [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 116 days 5 hours 56 minutes ago
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Virgin Media Announces Closing of 1.5 Billion Equivalent of Senior Secured Notes Due 2018 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 60 days 18 hours 17 minutes ago
Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VMED) (LSE:VMED), a leading UK entertainment and communications business, today announced the closing of the offering of approximately £1.5 billion equivalent aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2018, split into a $1.0 billion U.S. dollar denominated tranche and a £875 million sterling denominated tranche of its wholly-owned subsidiary Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A un...


Virgin Media Announces Offering of 500 Million Equivalent of Senior Secured Notes Due 2018 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 68 days 10 hours 55 minutes ago
Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VMED)(LSE:VMED), a leading UK entertainment and communications business, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, approximately £500 million equivalent aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2018 in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and outside the United States to cer...





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Company Overview


Company: Virgin Media Inc.
Industry: Cable TV System Operators
Website: http://www.virginmedia.com

Virgin Media is no novice when it comes to keeping Britons connected. Through its operational subsidiaries in the UK, the company is a "quadruple-play" communications services provider, offering cable TV, Internet, fixed-line voice, and wireless services to more than 10 million total consumer and commercial customers. It serves more than 4 million wireless subscribers through its Virgin Mobile arm, while about 3 million customers use cable broadband Internet service provided by Virgin Broadband. The company's Virgin Media Television business serves more than 3 million pay TV subscribers and it supplies entertainment and news content, as well as interactive digital services, to other providers and media outlets.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 6,058.9 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Sales 4.2 (2009)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -569.8 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 (2009)
Number of Employees 12,107 (2009)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -17.1 (2009)
Fiscal Year-End December