Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
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Old 18-12-2017, 13:49   #3732
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
I would be surprised if BT pulled out of the existing wholesale deal with VM. I haven't seen the figures, but gut instinct tells me that BT would get less from VM viewers if they had to subscribe and pay for that service. Currently, they have a guaranteed income stream from VM which must be worth something to BT through the payments made by VM and the extra advertising revenue.

If I was negotiating on behalf of Virgin, I would get UHD and AMC thrown in with the next negotiation!
The info we have is BT are still pretty annoyed at VMs behaviour regarding something that happened with Eiresport, vm went crying to ofcom over something.
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