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Great cheers Howard... don't want to get greedy but History HD and SSN HD would be ace!!!

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I didn't doubt VM for a second. Look at all the great channels and deals they got that were announced at the last minute.

Also don't forget VM did get Setanta and ESPN included with XL. So was only natural they would try to get the same deal for BT Sport.

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Gloating is a sin..;)

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All I need now is Sky News HD and I'm set :)

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it has been added to xl for free from xl customers

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but Maggy this is to good not to have a little gloat ;)

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100% correct.

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Not sure is good, but SOME (nowhere near all) who were so angry and convinced that VM had goofed over BT Sport were not terribly nice to those who were calmly saying let us wait and see so am gloating in a non gloaty way.... ;)

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Should be soon though

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../1951120#M4624

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So ESPN America programming has just shifted to ESPN, what other sports will be shown on the channel if any?

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Do Sky or BT have a cooling off period? I wonder how many VM customer who jumped ship will use that as an excuse to come back to VM if they do?

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I don't see why some people are surprised at it being on XL. BT would have lost out on millions without giving it to Virgin and will be getting much more money on a guaranteed 3 year contract on the XL package than they would as a stand alone subscription, as well as the extra ad revenue from the additional viewers.

All the delays were purely to get as many customers to switch to BT as possible. Praise Virgin all you want but I reckon BT had them in the palm of their hands all along and probably got exactly what they wanted.

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Most of the old ESPN programming like MLS Ligue 1 Serie A etc is on BT Sport now...

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did they offer you it when you phoned...

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Yeah UK Law states 28 days

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Not true BT had the upper hand. They wanted a subscription system on VM as they keep trumpeting their desire to sell their broadband. Quote from Telegraph in late July:

"On top of its historic strength in landlines, BT is investing £2.5bn to upgrade its broadband network to fibre, and has made a foray into TV, through YouView. BT Sport is designed to help attract and retain broadband customers. “Fibre is the absolute heart of our strategy,” says Petter, whose remit covers telephony, broadband and TV."

Or they didn't have VM in any palm anyway. This deal smacks of a climbdown to get more advertising money and viewers rather than the oft stated aim (which doesn't seem to be working if figures are to be believed) of using the sport to sell fibre....

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Actually it's 7 working days if sold over the phone or online (technically it can be less if the services are activated before the end of that period). Anything more is down to the company you are dealing with

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Woah i should have come on earlier, only just found out via a tweet by digital spy

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It takes two to tango,let's just thank both sides for using common sense,it does prevail sometimes.

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Well Done Stokesy for fronting up

Well done Den for keeping the cheer leading going.

Well done Howardmicks, who hinted that he knew the facts (turned out he did)

Well done Virgin, best ever, excellent :D

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Let hope VM marked down every customer who cancelled but mentioned BT Sport and now phone them all back!

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Even though you no longer have a house? ;)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35...-post2620.html

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...bt-sports.html
Tut tut,always use CF for the fastest info not DS.

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From what I hear not many jumped ship, the BT approach had too many potential challenges whichever route you took. Ie move to SKY and take BT broadband meant 2 bills no multi room for BT Sport, potentially poorer BB speed etc. If you went the full BT route, no additional outlet, less HD etc etc.

What they did get was 1 million sign ups to a free service, which isn't great in the scheme of things and that probably helped VM cut the deal which they did.

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Doug P,

Why would they have needed to climb down? They will have known that they needed more subs revenue and ad money right from the start. They will also have known that Virgin do not allow direct subs the way Sky do, allowing BT to take their details and try to sell them BB, so the benefit of a stand alone sub would not be there and would not gain anywhere near as much revenue for them.

They already managed to get plenty of people re-contracting or switching to BT BB so that part of the strategy worked to the extent it was ever going to. Fact remains the amount of money they paid for sports was not sustainable without wholesaling the product and they would have known this from the get go.

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Any Virgin customers who cancelled and didn't wait must be gutted now! Well done Virgin Media!!

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Virgin Tv Anywhere it will be on as well, is that even on android yet?

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well done virgin just logged on to check if we have bt sports and was greeted with this fantastic news...was worth holding on to my xl pacakage

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So glad BT Sport has finally arrived and all the doubts expressed by so many people have been put to rest. I am especially pleased to see the channels arrive in the XL pack (which I thought might happen but wasn't 100% sure) and with the HD channels as well. Good negotiating from VM there as BT would have been trying to extract a bit more for the HD channels.

As mentioned earlier, the next big thing will be Sky Atlantic. VM have been in negotiations with Sky over the extension to the Sky basics channels and Sky also want VM's agreement to take their new Sky Bravo channel. All of this, together with the recent Fibre deal done with Sky indicates that we should have a good negotiating scenario to acquire Sky Atlantic.

So it now seems to me that Sky Atlantic will appear on cable before Christmas, but to be honest it could be with us any time from now on.

For those of you who are interested in these things, the numbers for the new channels received today are:

529 ESPN
530 ESPN HD
547 BT Sport 1
548 BT Sport 2
549 BT Sport 1 HD
550 BT Sport 2 HD

Happy viewing everyone!

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Super happy this has finally been sorted out. Well done VM, you played hardball and it paid off.

I have my beloved UFC back, as well as the Premiership. I had no other way of viewing UFC, at least there were many options with watching the football.

I knew those placeholders from yesterday were live tests, I knew it. You don't put that stuff up on a live site without it needing to be there.

What a week, personally! ;)

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Catesby, respect your post cannot agree. The deal reeks of VM holding out for either VIP or XL.

Brilliant day for VM customers and well done all who negotiated.

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I told you so!!!!

And you all doubted me!!!

I was a bit after the date but I did say in XL! ;)

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Yeah well, we might never know who got the best deal out of it.

I think we can all agree that we're glad we have it though.

I was quite pleased to negotiate a £15p/m discount last month on the back of BT & Sky's offers as well. I think that most consumers have done pretty well out of it, whichever platform they're on.

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We didn't all doubt you BAF just some of the timing!

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it's amazing how quiet those "we won't be getting it" people are now, have they all gone off to sulk at the fact we was right or at least prepared to see it out before whining that Virgin haven't done anything again .................:rolleyes:

anyway all you Virgin haters :upyours::D

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Media Guardian report shows VM pretty chipper!!

Virgin Media already offers all Sky's sport channels, so following the BT deal has positioned itself as the "only place sports fans can enjoy every goal, try, penalty and heart-stopping sporting moment".


"Virgin Media homes are kicking-off the new season with the most complete sporting lineup around in one simple subscription, from Barclays Premier League football and Aviva Premiership rugby to F1, live golf and the culmination of a great Ashes series," said the Virgin Media chief operating officer, Dana Strong.

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I did doubt a part of what you said, but if you look at my posts, you will see that I've been quite positive about the BT Sport launch on Virgin. All the signs from the more credible sources have been pointing in that direction.

The main doubt for me was whether it would be on the XL pack. That was quite a coup for VM!

Thanks for the intel, anyway Bomber, you came through in the end!

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I was really really confident the moment someone posted that Reuters were reporting a deal.

Thoroughly reliable source and so that was when I thought we'd get the channels!

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You have returned then, How about a sky atlantic prediction then?

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Now the deal has been signed can people now admit what they knew and what they didnt know about the deal i.e when they found out, how it was done etc

i admit i knew nothing :monkey:

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You know what they say it comes to he who waits. A big well done to Virginmedia for getting a great deal for its sport loving customers.
Congratulations to Bomber af who called it all along.

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I knew nothing I am not from Barcelona....but I didn't say I did know anything!

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BOMBERAF!

could this day get any better now. hahaha what an incredible day this truly is. what a turn around. what a chain of events. what a rollercoaster.

BOMBERAF!

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Got a few messages from investment companies saying it may be worth taking a punt on LGI as their view was that VM/LGI were pushing to get BT sports into XL. Obviously they have no more insider knowledge than anyone else but they do tend to be right on many occasions.

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I really didn't think in a million years we would get it on XL.

Virgin have played a blinder here, you have to say

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Agreed Scouser... Superb VM, quite superb!

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Errrm think that was me :blush: but Routers are usually very accurate

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Sorry couldn't credit you as couldn't find the post, but that was the one that convinced me they would come and it was just a question of when.

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Fail to see how this has anything to do with Bomber, he said BT & Atlantic would be here 10 days ago.

Saying BT would come wasn't exactly a out of this world prediction, it was reasonably likely.

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BomberAF still has to prove us right on the Atlantic part though...

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I hoped he was right but had heard nothing from any other source at that time, last week I did start hearing things, so not sure where he was hearing things from or was it simple speculation?

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The best comes to those who wait.:)

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Well looking on VMs facebook, those who are asking about Atlantic are getting suspiciously quiet replies. One person asked, and there reply was "glad to have you for our sports filled weekend"

Change of heart from "we are in talks with Sky on this one"

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Well done with BT Sports - here's to more fun and excitement for the Coming Soon thread - and just for Arthur --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkPxqNPMp8Q

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There is absolutely no way sky will let VM have Atlantic now, apart from a few missing hd channels (which I really want by the way) The complete VM package stacks up very well!

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yes think it 7 or 8 days cooling off period but not 100% on number of days

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much as i dont like it but 100% agree with this unless Liberty new ownership has made in roads of progress....

queue coming soon for the rest of the channels :)

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Im still here, i never went in hiding :D

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Got email from an insider at 7.20am today but I was not online until 9.30am.

All it said was 'Yes. Today or Tomorrow.'

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and hope your right about the second part to then you will get lots of apologies and rightly so

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And praise be to you Mr Stokes for that.:tu:

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go on virgin be a devil and give us premier sports as well ...

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Until you see the next price rise :(











Joking :D well done Virgin:clap:

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Credit to mr Stokes for not going into hiding.
I've sent those chips to you MR Stokes but they might not turn up as i used Yodel.

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Now that's being greedy my dear chap.:D

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:)

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oh yes and why not premier sport and sky Atlantic would be fantastic lol

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Ill ring them up and complain if i dont get them

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So, could I get clarification for someone who's asking me about this.

I'm on XL, so it looks to me like the BTSports package has effectively replaced the old ESPN package at no extra charge, including HD. (Yay!)

I assume if you're on one of the other packages, you have to pay extra if you want BTSports, and extra again if you want HD. Is that correct?

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£15 a month for SD/HD

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Yes its £15 for anything lower than XL

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So there's no extra charge for HD at all (apart from Sky Sports)?

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Correct

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Ok. Thanks!

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I'm drinking glasses of wine saluting all you fine people after today's epic triumph. Well done all well done

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Bon Appetit Mr Stokes

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Bon Appetit

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There's already an excellent BT Sports app on Android and iOS with live feeds. Not sure if you can access it though with a VM account though - it may be only for BT broadband customers' accounts

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:D :clap: :clap: :clap:

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to me this as to be one of virgin medias greatest days,was laughing so much this morning when put tv on and saw bt sports thinking about all those poor people who went to sky or bt,well done vm a great great day

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Loving the meal pic for Mr Stokes!! Ha ha! :D

For anyone on TV L who may be considering BT Sports, it's cheaper to go to XL - something like £11 per month more, rather than £15 to get just BT Sports. Another no brainer offer from VirginMedia! :idea:

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A fantastic outcome for Virgin customers with the XL package. My Dad will be chuffed to bits when I phone him later telling him he now has BT Sports in his package for free.

SKY will now come under renewed pressure from their customers to come up with something special. I however don't see SKy really doing anything in return.

Enjoy the start of the Premiership lads :)

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That is absolutely brilliant ; Epic in fact.

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I left virgin for sky in the last few weeks,had a phonecall off sky end of last month saying they could offer me everything(not bt sport) for £44,phoned them back saying i just wanted the tv deal ,offered me my line rental for half price,so got everything for £34 now.

Only a 12 month contract so may go back to virgin in a year. Did ask virgin if they could reduce my sky sports package +movies and they couldn't ,and that was costing me £32 on its own with virgin.I can see now why sky weren't budging with virgin on any deals ......full stop!!!!

Not really bothered with bt at the moment,though ive still got virgin xl till August 31st,i will get it after xmas when the fa cup kicks in,plus they will get first picks on the bigger games in the new year.

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Thanks VM :)

the news of BT sports has brightened us all up!

Greatist Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzMLGH1Rfs

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Anyone got any idea if BT sports will be on VM tomorrow or Saturday :erm: as they said it should be Friday if we hear anything

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Just no :banghead:

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It's on right now!

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It's on now!!

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It's on now;

ESPN 529
ESPN HD 530
BT Sport 1 547
BT Sport 2 548
BT Sport 1HD 549
BT Sport 2HD 550

:)

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Little comedy moments like this make this forum worthwhile !

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All I really would like now is Sky Sports News HD

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I know but having a 2 year old running about and watching show me, show me you just can't check :D.been up since 4 this morning and having to watch in the night Garden for about 7 hours dulls anyone's senses lmao

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yes I can see it now well done VM and in HD as well

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Sky Atlantic HD and Sky Sports News HD to launch on VM at the beginning of September!

Remember you heard it here first! ;)

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Just got home from work and flicked through the channels, one happy bunny here :-)

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What about Sky News HD, Pick TV +1, Sky Atlantic +1 and Sky1 +1?

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That Iggle Piggle has a lot to answer for ;)

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I forgot to add the News part to Sky Sports New.

It is Sky Sports News HD and Sky Atlantic both HD and SD.

Not sure about the others.

As part of the XL package!!!!!