Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

Vintage TV is top of my music channels list

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Scuzz is mine as there is not enough Metal on VM

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.
 

I agree if VM manage to capture Sky Atlantic I believe it will be a great addition for its customers I also believe it will help with attracting new customers it will certainly bring them back into my reckoning.

To those who claim its full of repeats and filler content your right but which pay TV channel isn't however the fact is over a year it broadcasts some excellent series , Game of thrones , The Newsroom , Boardwalk Empire , Banshee , The Borgias and Blue Bloods to name but a few , throw Netflix with its originals into the mix and you've got an excellent choice of content.

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As it's becoming more and more likely that BT Sports will probably be a standalone premium channel(s) on VM a la Sky, I think Sky Atlantic would be a fantastic replacement for ESPN in the XL pack. I think that would certainly keep the value of the XL pack.

I appreciate that it's a different genre but (as I've said before) I reckon the best tactic Sky and VM can use now is to work together to make both of their offerings better than BT. This way it would discourage people from joining / moving to BT as their whole packages wouldn't be as enticing.

Be an interesting month ahead when presumably all will be revealed! :)

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Yes, it will be very interesting indeed.

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SKY Atlantic is a basic channel on the SKY platform, the same as SKY One and SKY Arts. Why would Virgin customers be happy for it to go into the XL package?

I have SKY just now but keep an eye on what Virgin are doing with their platform. My SKY contract expires in December and I wouldn't rule out coming back to Virgin, especially if they add SKY Atlantic. I wouldn't be happy having to take XL or VIP to enjoy the channel. SKY Atlantic is a good channel with programs my wife and I really enjoy however it shouldn't be exclusive to XL, in my opinion.

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It would have been a good addition as it does have slightly different content, MTV Music and MTV Hits have very similar content and even repeat some of the same shows.

It seems odd that it is the only non-timeshift channel they haven't added. Things were shuffled around a little after MTV channels were removed last time, so maybe MTV has a reshuffle scheduled and will be dropping a channel, MTV Classics could then replace the removed channel. Entirely speculation, of course.

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Pretty much because quite a few of the channels from the XL package have recently been added to lower packages. This only devalues the XL package, loss of ESPN will devalue it further.. they will have to bulk up the content at some point or reduce the price difference.

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Just in case anyone missed this from the article about Sky Atlantic:

"Carriage negotiations for Sky’s other channels on Virgin Media are due to be renewed this month, at which time a deal for Sky Atlantic is likely to be discussed."

May get Sky1+1 and other missing Sky basic channels if things work out.

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Yes things are indeed looking very promising.:)

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Unusual question, but say a deal with BSkyB is done, would it be possible for a deal to be done with the BSkyB part owned channels like MGM HD all in one deal?

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Let's hope so:)

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Nope.

Sky deals are just two.

-Sky Basic (Sky1, Sky2, Sky Arts, Sky Living, Sky Livingit, Pick TV and Challenge) - Broadcastnow says it run out an end of Month.
-Sky Sports/Sky Movies - deal runs out in June 2014.

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If we do get Sky Atlantic (And that an long if) I not think we will see Sky Atlantic HD.

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To me the renewal of the basics package and the Sports and Movies package is more important than Atlantic being added. Bad day if we lost the rest of Sky. Hopefully the talks of "realism" are true....

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It the rumoured that Broadcastnow are saying is true.

This was reported in June 2010 when Virgin Media sold their TV Channels (Living, Bravo and Virgin1) to Sky:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...media-channels

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Same here as it is a excellent channel.