Virgin TV is a digital and analogue cable television service in the UK, owned by Virgin Media. Its origins come back from NTL and Telewest, two largest cable operators in the country, of which the two companies merged on 6 March 2006. All services (thus including TV) were rebranded as the Virgin name in February 2007. Virgin TV is the largest cable television provider in the country.
Virgin TV ranks as the UK's second largest pay TV service. In 2007, it had 3.6m subscribers, compared to BSkyB's 8.2m on Sky, as of Q3 2007. Virgin's digital cable television currently uses the Nagravision 3 conditional access system.
Currently 55% of UK households potentially have access to Virgin's network, while anyone in the UK with a line-of-sight view of the Astra & Eurobird satellites at 28.2° east has the ability to receive Sky's service.
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