Viridian Cablevision

Viridian Cablevision is a cable network, run by media company Viridian Media. It has been in operation since 1993. It expanded from five to six in 2000 after the launch of Mega Movies 2. In 2001, Viridian expressed a desire to have the five main terrestrial channels available on Cablevision. BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4 were added in early 2002, Five followed in August 2003, and ITV1 was added earlier this year. Unfortunately, due to a rights issue, Network Six could not be added, but Viridian hope to rectify this in the near future. Recently, it has started to grow, with channels that are not owned by Viridian, or are the normal terrestrial channels, such as BBC3. The channels it added were the ones available on Freeview.

Channels
The five channels available at launch were:

Channel One, Viridian's flagship channel, its general entertainment channel.

Viridian News is a rolling news channel, in a similar vein to Sky News, and Taff Media News Channel. It is also available on Sky Digital and Freeview.

SportsZone, the network's sport channel. It owns rights to NFL, Super League and the Cricket County Championship.

Mega Movies (now Mega Movies 1), showing new film releases, soon after they are released to buy at home. It competes with Sky Movies and Film4.

Viridian Superkidz, the children's channel, showing the best in kids' comedy.

In 2000, Mega Movies 2 was added to the line-up, showing classic films, much like TCM.

In 2008, Channel Two was added to the family of channels. It shows repeats of British comedy and American import dramas, already shown on Channel One.

On April 20, 2009, the empty space titled Channel 7, broadcasting a testcard, became Blast!, a music channel.