Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Great news for you VM guys :) Be interesting to see if it'll be included with XL or an additional charge.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

It will be £5p/m extra for xl and £20p/m extra for none xl i think.
Plusnet still have no idea if we're getting it lol.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

That is the 64 million dollar question and we might have to wait a little while before all is revealed.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

fingers crossed VM have pulled another rabbit out of the hat and it be same as bt sports 1+2 remember everyone thought that be extra too

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

To be fair Dave whether it's included in XL or not you'll end up paying for it , the only plus for sports fans with it being included in a package it generally makes it better value for those who want it as opposed to having to pay for it as a standalone option.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Based on the prices announced so far on other platforms, I wouldn't be surprised if it is something like that theone.

Too right MM, it'd be £23.99 per month for me to add the BT Sports HD channels to my Sky package which is way overpriced for what you get in my opinion. I'm sure, like you say, VM customers will pay for it in some way but can't imagine it'll be as steep as the Sky price.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I wouldn't at all be surprised if it was included in XL however if so I'd expect to see rises on packages at the next annual increase to reflect this. Just my opinion of course.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

l suspects your hunches are probably right MM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Thanks for rumour.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The link states:
That does imply it will be part of a sports package, and not the general XL package, but as usual may just be badly worded.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The new DNP was news on BT Sport Europe given to us early this week.

We seen info on two ideas.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-signs-bt.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I would be extremely surprised if this isn't included in the XL package.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

We know what Virgin Media was in talks for.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

About 2 weeks ago I would have agreed with you but since then BT have released their pricing info for other platforms.

Under the current deal Virgin pay BT £75 million pounds per year to carry their channels. If the new channel is to be included in XL Virgin will need to renegotiate the deal. How much will BT be looking for? £85 million per year? £100 million per year? That's crazy money.

Virgin, in my humble opinion, would be better dropping BT Sports from XL and reinvesting some of the money saved in beefing XL up in other areas i.e SKY Atlantic, all missing HD channels, Netflix included in XL and the likes of Premier Sports and Boxnation for the sports fans. That for me would make XL a much better rounded package making if much more attractive to a wider spectrum of customers.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Do we get BT Sports Europe in SD & HD?