Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

All of which already air on Sky Sports so no point.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

If you go back to my post at 4pm today I did say One of the Sky Sports channels (Sky Sports name here) may* close for NBC Sport to launch.

*"-One Sky Sports Channel may replace by NBCSports."

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

May be wrong but just don't see it , Sky Sports is a far more recognised brand in Europe.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Just passing on information we was given today by an Media Boy Source.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Are you sure about this, MB? It doesn't sound right to me.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

"You MAY win Lotto BUT get hit by the bus on your way to get it".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Sky absolutely did.

https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/m...of-tv-channels

This agreement is a further step in Sky’s strategy to maximise distribution of key channel brands and to monetise its content investment further across all TV platforms. By adding Now TV to the heart of BT’s TV offering, Sky’s portfolio of TV entertainment brands will be available to all UK consumers through each major Pay-TV service, reaching new customers and expanding the appeal of our channels to advertisers.

Sky's own website, that was.

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Well, that's a great help.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

They didn't.

That's your interpretation of "major platforms", it's a press release and use of the term has no legal standing. If Sky want to be snide in their use of the term excluding Virgin Media from their definition then they absolutely can, and did.

Some of Sky's portfolio is on Virgin, however it was entirely predictable that they didn't mean Sky Atlantic was coming to Virgin Media.

If those terms had legal standing they'd have to remove that news release as misleading. If you were to email and ask for a correction they'd laugh you out of town.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Of course Virgin Media is a major platform! Black really is white in your head, isn't it?

A better argument would be that they didn't necessarily mean their complete portfolio, but it would be surprising that they have relented their exclusivity of SA on BT but not on Virgin Media.

Yet another possibility is that Sky were prepared to make the channel available at a price VM were not prepared to pay.

However, despite all of this, I am not sure I believe the information MB has been given, but we won't know anything for sure until there is an official announcement or it just suddenly appears. I still think it is likely that we will get Atlantic.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

You can think Virgin is a major platform, I can agree, but that's utterly irrelevant to Sky's use of the term.

You read what you wanted to in their statement. Not what it actually said.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

I read the words. You are trying to spin them. You are very good at that, I must say.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

I'm not trying to spin them at all. You're interpreting it incorrectly to support what you think will happen.

I'm telling you there's enough leeway in the wording that it doesn't guarantee Sky Atlantic on Virgin. Not by a long shot.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

You can only really interpret it one way which is Virgin Media is a major platform. If Sky didn't mean that, that isn't Old Boys fault.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

Does anyone have a link to the Sky press release about Atlantic that is being discussed here please?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
 

With a Sky press release as a Virgin Media customer I tend to frame it though a lens of "how am I likely to be disappointed by this?".

I've warned against the Atlantic coming to Virgin interpretation since they published it. The obvious question is why wasn't it added back then?

I don't buy the Game of Thrones argument, seven years in the number of folk subscribing on that basis will be miniscule. A three month Now TV pass would suffice, and for such a small number the revenue would be dwarfed by a wholesale deal to four million Virgin subscribers.

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https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/m...of-tv-channels