Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

That little troll was a skyhd customer anyway,clearly new nothing and as now crawled back under is rock:mad:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Yes but the channel closed at the same time said wholesale agreement was up, all of this is of no choice to virgin. ESPN shut down and was transferred to a new broadcaster, the existing ESPN contract would be worth diddly-squit.

Who says BT have made an offer?

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No they haven't. ESPN have shut down. How is that Virgins decision?

The name ESPN has transferred to BT, therefore any existing contract for ESPN doesn't exist. Again it is not in Virgin Medias control as to whether the channel shut down.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

On the plus side, you can all go outside now - none of you have seen any sunlight in days! Take your sunblock - it's going to be a hot one!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Libertys earnings call starts at 9, will dial in and see if they have anything to say on the BT thing.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

It doesn't matter if its in their control. Jeesh.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

I hate to say told you so but this is defiantly the reason VM have phoned, mail shotted and emailed me constantly over the last 3 months so they can tie me into a new deal so I can't bugger off the day they became 3rd rate (today).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

They do need to get their act together now and sort it out. It's bound to be £12 a month, I guess they just can't agree on who gets what out of that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Who says BT have made an offer?[COLOR="Silver"]

Well you can't really have negotiations without an offer! Or have Virgin and BT just been sitting in room saying nothing to each other for last x months? BT would have to at least put their starting offer on the table £12 for SD and £15 for HD and discussions would have gone from there?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

BT bought the rights to ESPN therefore VM lost them. All VM would have to show is that the cost of retaining those rights or getting the channels through BT was not in their shareholders interest (a legal requirement) and they could justifiably claim the loss of the rights was outside of their reasonable control.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

You hope.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Read J3. There is nothing about it being in or out of their control.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Just logged on but its tomorrow at 9am damn!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

Yer totally agree been saying that for weeks,they were telling customers only yesterday that espn was staying just to get them on new contracts or stay.disgracefull behaviour but I suppose that's how they operate in America we are now yank owned remember

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

I'm more angry with BT than Virgin over this. IMO we would have had a deal long ago if VM had just done what Sky did & added it as an extra sub for £15 a month like Boxnation. How many people would have subscribed to it though? I'd fall into the category of a mad sports fan but I wouldn't pay it. What VM are trying to do, is engineer a move whereby Virgins product (VIP/XL) offers the best deal possible to customers (better than Sky). This would also boost viewership for BT, problem is, unlike most TV operators they don't seem that worried (right now) about the lack of people watching the channel. They're more concerned with selling broadband & BT vision or whatever it's called. BT's numbers will significantly drop off next year once the people with broadband stop getting it for free. Sooner or later I think BT will come round, how long that will take is anyone's guess though, could be 2 weeks or maybe a year, possibly even longer than that!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.
 

This is the latest from someone who has close knowledge on the in's and out's of what is happening at this present moment.