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muppetman11 13-07-2014 16:49

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35713875)
Sky's core television business has totally reached saturation point so they have much more to gain if they agree carriage terms with other providers in my book.

Haven't they already done that ? :confused:

The only Sky channel exclusive to the Sky platform is Sky Atlantic all the rest are avalble on VM or will be soon

denphone 13-07-2014 16:50

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35713884)
Haven't they already done that ? :confused:

The only Sky channel exclusive to the Sky platform is Sky Atlantic.

That's the channel l am talking about MM.

trevrpb 13-07-2014 16:51

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 35713879)
be same price until sky put prices up in September VM will put sports up in October

Cheers. :)

telegramsam 13-07-2014 16:52

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
[QUOTE=Dave42;35713831]as you well know Howard mate that a sky inforced charge not a VM so cant blame VM for that as for not paying extra for SA that's a basic channel as you well know as well and Sports is Premium so yes that's a extra charge

But didn`t I read on here somewhere that virgin also add a couple of quid on for themselves?

muppetman11 13-07-2014 16:56

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35713887)
That's the channel l am talking about MM.

The powers that be within BSKYB obviously deem it more beneficial as exclusive currently , no doubt over time this will change.

azbazlol 13-07-2014 17:01

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35713436)
All will be reveal in the coming days.

When are these dnp orders going to be revealed mb??

Dave42 13-07-2014 17:02

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
[QUOTE=telegramsam;35713889]
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 35713831)
as you well know Howard mate that a sky inforced charge not a VM so cant blame VM for that as for not paying extra for SA that's a basic channel as you well know as well and Sports is Premium so yes that's a extra charge

But didn`t I read on here somewhere that virgin also add a couple of quid on for themselves?

for sports yes think so not sure if they did that with the £7 HD premium charge though

spankysmagicpian 13-07-2014 18:37

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by azbazlol (Post 35713894)
When are these dnp orders going to be revealed mb??

The DNPs are still under NDAs and quite possibly ALOOB

Superblade7 13-07-2014 19:23

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35713374)
Rumour: I hear that Virgin Media are set to launch an new offer soon.

Was the Sky Sports season ticket the offer you alluded to MB?

Full details - https://my.virginmedia.com/customer-...on-ticket.html

Itshim 13-07-2014 19:48

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by Superblade7 (Post 35713922)
Was the Sky Sports season ticket the offer you alluded to MB?

Full details - https://my.virginmedia.com/customer-...on-ticket.html


It could not be this :erm:

neilo 13-07-2014 20:02

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
That's a really good deal over the 10 months.

theone2k10 13-07-2014 20:37

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by neilo (Post 35713935)
That's a really good deal over the 10 months.

It is a very good deal as it's only £40 more than the Bein sports service i use.




ps i think a lot of you will be very disappointed Tuesday a 3rd source has now said the Skysports hd channels aren't launching this week they will be here before the new season.
I really hope they are wrong.

OLD BOY 13-07-2014 20:44

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35713945)
It is a very good deal as it's only £40 more than the Bein sports service i use.




ps i think a lot of you will be very disappointed Tuesday a 3rd source has now said the Skysports hd channels aren't launching this week they will be here before the new season.
I really hope they are wrong.

Yes, well they are not listed for Virgin in the TV magazines, and given the lead in time, you would have thought the channel numbers would be there. So I'm not optimistic it is going to be this week, but wouldn't rule it out.

theone2k10 13-07-2014 20:52

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35713948)
Yes, well they are not listed for Virgin in the TV magazines, and given the lead in time, you would have thought the channel numbers would be there. So I'm not optimistic it is going to be this week, but wouldn't rule it out.

I've been told end of july but one has said middle of august.

OLD BOY 13-07-2014 20:56

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
 
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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35713755)


Curiously you said otherwise then. When did the doubts set in?
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35...-post3107.html


The contract was signed the evening before the channels launched. I got a call at 22:15 to say "go".

I don't doubt that the contract was signed when you say it was, Spiderplant, but the sneaking suspicion I had was that there was already a gentleman's agreement between VM and BT that the channel would be made available. That's not to say either that there weren't further discussions taking place over the detail, based on how many people were subscribing to BT and VM trying to push down the asking price right up until the last minute.

Obviously, I don't know the precise detail because I was not involved in the discussions and don't know anyone with inside knowledge. However, you may recall that there were indications from VM that BT Sport was coming and VM had to take down information quite quickly after putting them up on our TV screens. There are a number of posts about this on the Forum that were added at around about that time.

It was always clear in my mind that VM were going for a Setanta-type deal and it was only a question of the price.


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