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At last Sky Atlantic concrete news [Not] coming to Virginmedia [Anytime Soon]
Yep thats right concrete news about Sky Atlantic and when it is coming to Virginmedia.
My sources have indicated that as a 100% Virginmedia want Sky Atlantic and would love to add it when it becomes available..BUT THAT WILL NOT BE IN 2012 FACT!!!!! Mod Edit - thread title amended with square bracketed words to clarify misdescription |
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I don't have a source I can link too but.........
I rang to cancel Sky today and was basically told NO F1-HD and NO SKY ATLANTIC anywhere else in 2012. Now if this is a lie it would be the first time Sky have lied to me. Virginmedia lied to me when I left and they told me Sky Atlantic would be on the network with 6 weeks ( 2 DAYS AFTER IT LAUNCHED ON SKY AND STILL NOT ON VM) They also told me the itv2hd/3hd/4hd contracts were for 12 months only but they still aren't on VM:D |
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First thing is staff would not be know whether a channel is coming until the last moment and the second thing is speculation is speculation and nothing more then that. |
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*****EDIT***** Thanks MODS for correcting the title *****EDIT***** |
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So the concrete news is in fact It's NOT coming to Virginmedia. I don't regard it's happening sometime after 2012 as being coming in any sense of the word, indeed the only thing you have confirmed is what we know, VM want Sky Atlantic, but Sky have yet to allow them to have it.
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Is that concrete :) ,whats so special about sky atlantic anyway just another channel full of repeats with maybe one or two shows we haven't seen in the uk yet but are still repeats in america |
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Another Atlantic thread :shocked:
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With respect mate the last part of that is Jackson Pollocks. Edit to say in hindsight the lot of it is Jackson Pollocks. |
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7.30 ER 8.00 Anthony Bourdain 9.00 big love 10.20 The Wire 11.30 strike back project dawn 12.30 The borgias 1.45 big love 2.05 big love and then the previous is repeated all of these are repeats and i beleive most if not all have been cancelled .Im not saying it's all crap just nothing new and the likes of seinfeld and ER have been repeated ad nauseum in VM ---------- Post added at 20:04 ---------- Previous post was at 20:04 ---------- Quote:
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Well when i left sky the agent told me that atlantic was available to vm but they wanted it on the cheap and sky will only be offering future channels in sd.hd versions are going to be sky exclusives,seeing what as happened recently with f1 and the lack of ssnews looks like what i was told is indeed true.
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Hm, £30 or UFO... |
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It only costs 30 quid for a box set if you buy it new and then choose not to stick it back on ebay after you're done.
I have to agree with Marty, the amount of fuss is not proportionate to the content we're missing. |
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Incidentally, this week sees the first anniversary of the launch of Sky Atlantic (Feb 1) and the following week has Virgin Media's Full Year and Q4 2011 Results and Strategy Update on Feb 8th. If there is going to be any carriage announcement for Atlantic expect it in the next few days. |
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Hmmmmm. I don't think they've been calling it exclusive to Sky for a while now have they? Recently I've heard the channel described as the exclusive home of hbo stuff, but that would continue to be the case even if it appeared on other platforms.
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Yeah right!!!:D:D:D |
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The word "exclusive", heavily used in the early days, is gone though. I know that's splitting hairs, but there'sa big difference between loudly proclaiming something as exclusive and quietly putting "only on Sky 108" underneath the channel logo. It does suggest that they are open to the idea that it won't be exclusive for ever.
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Not moving from Sky to Virgin until they get Sky Atlantic. Game of thrones and Boardwalk Empire are enough reasons for me to want to keep Sky Atlantic.:)
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And you registered on a cable forum and resurected a 5 month old thread just to tell us, cheers mate. :rolleyes:
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No more baiting of other members.Just stick with the topic.
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Sky owners don't watch it. Take the stories about Mad Men only getting 50k viewers. When we get it (And we will as they are gonna need the advertising revenue) we will probably not watch it, and move onto the next shiny thing Sky has that we don't.
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How is it overhyped? May be on here it is by VM customers but Sky market this channel as a niche channel with high quality first runs of critically acclaimed shows. Sky have Sky One and Sky Living ad their main stream pay tv offerings.
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So Atlantic may be good for some people, but for me I'm far too busy to have time to go looking for new things to watch, when there are enough channels already. Especially as the Tivo records programs that are similar to what I like anyway. |
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My son wants to swap to Virgin from Sky. However won`t until Virgin get a version of Sky Go & get Sky Atlantic ( His wife wants this more than him ) I wonder if there are many more out there that feel like this .
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But I believe it is overhyped, just like most advertising overhypes things. It's known as marketing. There are 100's of channels on Sky, and they make it out in the adverts to be better than all the others put together.....now that is over hyping in my opinion. |
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Yes I have seen the adverts.
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I wouldn't say the channel is crap but last night was the first thing I actually have ever really wanted to see that was only shown on there.
Alan Partridge. Oh well will have to use my in laws Sky Go account or other means to see it instead |
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Before you ask UK drama I like at the moment Silk, Lewis. & for light relief Midsummer murders & Stella . Other than these can not think of a single UK show I watch ( Starlings is the only other recorded - I hate it :shocked:) |
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Yes it would be nice to have had the choice, but I refuse to pander to Sky's silly games - I'd rather go without than let them have the satisfaction. If this is the first time this has meant "going without" since Sky Atlantic launched, then it's probably not worth getting stressed about... it'll appear again sometime I'm sure |
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God forbid a business what actually tries to get a return on something it's invested millions into. None of us on here actually know the ins and outs of the discussions to carry the channel so it's all merely speculation on both sides. |
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Nope, not showing on Sky Anytime, not that I can see anyway. Tried that before posting originally. DigiGuide isn't picking up any repeat showings either.. oh well.
Has any Sky Atlantic show made top-50 digital-only recently? |
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It really is about time that Sky recognised that its customers included those subscribing to its channels via Virgin Media, and pricing them out of the equation is no way to treat your customers. ---------- Post added at 19:28 ---------- Previous post was at 19:27 ---------- Quote:
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I think the first Alan Partridge on Sky 1 was a bit of a teaser, Mrs M seems to think this has happened before when the first episode of a series was broadcast on Sky 3 when that was on freeview but the series continued on Sky 1. I can't remember that myself but the second Partridge is due on Atlantic this week and I can't find it on anywhere else, so I guess it's a tried and tested tactic. Shame, it's the first thing I would have liked to have seen on that channel since I'm a big fan of KMKY etc. Hopefully it'll be available on dvd at some point.
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It's a USP for the Sky platform weres the big issue with that ? As I recall TIVO is exclusive to VM in the UK and one of their USP's.
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Wasn't a complaint, was an observation.
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sky not gonna let anyone have it so everyone have to get used to that not that im bothered about SA
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The "Sky Atlantic is exclusive to Sky customers" was very noticeable-I'm inclined to agree, it's not coming anytime soon. I think the simple fact is that increasing the exposure to another 4 m probably wouldn't bring the supposed benefits in increased advertising revenue that some seem to think since, taking the current viewing figures as a representative sample, opening it up to Virgin would only likely add relatively few actual viewers. It's worth more to Sky as a usp than as a commodity.
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Reaction has been very mixed, which I'm hoping means that my disappointment was genuine and not because I'd approached it hoping it would fail. I don't think that's the case, in fact I think I was looking forward to it, but i, like many, felt it fell short. Given what Coogan has had to say about the Murdoch empire, I find it quite sad that he's chased the Murdoch dollar at the expense of being able to do his best creation proper justice.
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"Flying AIDs" |
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