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Originally Posted by Carl J
It's actually the 2nd most watched non-terrestrial channel last week based purely on % share, behind Sky Sports One:
http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary...t=multichannel
The Sky channels as a whole carry an 8.6% share, more than twice that of all non-Sky channels coming in at 3.5%.
You can also get stats for previous month, etc from that site 
So yes I would suggest that the claim that Sky One carries some of the most watched shows on cable is accurate. |
Read my post. I didn't distinguish between terrestrial and cable channels. Therefore my assertion was correct.
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Really?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4496894.stm
NTL and Virgin in takeover talks
Last Updated: Monday, 5 December 2005, 12:18 GMT
http://networks.silicon.com/broadban...9153556,00.htm
BSkyB confirms £211m offer for Easynet
Multiplay ahead for Sky, trouble on the horizon for smaller ISPs?
Published: Friday 21 October 2005
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but October is before December, suggesting that Sky have had this strategy for a while, and before the Virgin / ntl talks were confirmed as in progress. It's fair to say that Sky / Easynet were in discussion for months before this, as the story I quoted from December says 'talks' while the October Sky / Easynet story is an offer, IE legal stuff done and here's the cash.
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OK. So maybe they weren't panicing about the recent name change. Maybe they were not comfortable with the fact that the then merged NTL:Telewest were already talking about a triple play?