Thread: Virgin on getting ITV on VOD; Sky One
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Old 20-02-2007, 16:40   #1
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Virgin on getting ITV on VOD; Sky One
From MediaGuardian (http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...017360,00.html)

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Virgin's head of content, Malcolm Wall, suggested negotiations may have been muddied by last year's attempt to merge with ITV - a move thwarted by BSkyB.

"We were having positive discussions with them but me and others probably complicated our relationship with them," said Mr Wall, who was the architect of the planned £9bn merger between ITV and what was then known as NTL.

Virgin is also locked in talks with Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB to renew a soon-to-expire deal for the satellite giant to supply it with Sky One. Mr Wall said that barring any surprises, hit shows 24 and Lost would not go off-air mid-season and that talks were continuing.

Describing meetings so far, Mr Wall resorted to a boxing metaphor: "There have been some low blows but no-one went down like Audley Harrison. Both sides are negotiating in good faith."
Okkkayyyy.....VC doesn't have content from Five either - why no fuss about that????

Looks like Sky One isn't going anywhere......and come to think of it, Sky didn't bombard us with their pleads to beg Virgin to keep Sky One on air last weekend, did they?
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