Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

How you do define Sky having market share over TV content?

Sports? Yeah. Movies? Yeah. TV content? :confused:

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Without the sale of VMTV, VM wouldn't have any Sky HD channels, Sky VOD content or I suspect, Sky Sports Red button.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

Looks like a good deal for Virgin.

If this means more HD channels, and more on demand content, then I'm a pretty happy customer.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

The deal has nothing to do with content. The new HD channels were coming anyway.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

Denphone i read an article through a link on here in which a top sky executive stated "sky atlantic will not appear on virgin nedia anytime soon"

They wanted a period of exclusivity for their own subs as they advertised it as added for free,so although they offered it i suspect it was offered at a price virgin could and indeed should have refused.

Once it goes into skys paid for packs they may be more willing to negotiate methinks.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

Interesting marketing ploy for sure personally i doubt wether the talk unlimited price would fund all the XL tv content on its own,but if the deal was take talk unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband and get TV XL for free then that would sound very realistic to me.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

They wanna try getting there lower speeds working properly first , and sorting the Superhub out.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

Seems too much too give away free. I'd say increasing the loyalty discount by X amount per year would be sensible, up to a point of course. It would give incentive for people to stay and would essentially negate price rises that new(er) customers would receive.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

A fine idea apart from that this kind of package would struggle to make Virgin a reasonable profit.

The 100Mb tier is quite subsidised enough in terms of the load on the network the customers using it create without throwing loads of paid for TV, as in VM pay for each customer receiving it, for free at them.

Re: Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m
 

Scripps Networks Interactive and Virgin Media Complete UKTV Transaction

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scr...ion-2011-10-03