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I wonder how Sky knew this...

That means one of the Sky crew has Virgin Media at home? lol

I don't mind it. MAde me chuckle. Sky Snooze.

I'm sure it wasn't an instruction by Virgin, more a practical Joke.

Still, they rewrote the names! Wow! Not illegal, is it?

What have they (Sky) done?

Refused Virgin to Continue to show the channels while an agreement is made, thus showing no willingness.

Asking for money for flagging channels. (Oh! Hello Sir Alex Ferguson! My name is Sven Goran Eriksson... and my son plays football. He is 27, and plays for a local Sunday League. He is 279lbs and runs like a woman. Give me £60m and he is yours.)
In real life: 'Oh! Hello Sir Richard Branson and Steve Burch! My name is Greedy Murdoch, and I have a bunch of Channels that have been dropping 20% audience figures on Cable over 3 Years. We run repeats of crap shows, all available on DVD, and we have 2 Flagship Shows that people actually watch (24 and Lost) yet LivingTV have Most Haunted, CSI, Americas Next Top Model and so on, so, In contrast, pay us almost £40m a year for Sky One, Sky News (we won an award you know... BBC news kicks our asses but hey! we are Sky!) Sky Sports News, Travel and Travel Extra...

Virgin: No. Sorry. Your channels are crap, and in the bunch of 5 channels, you have 2 shows we are slightly interested in, and we can get them on VOD this Year anyroad.

lol

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You have to think also, how much will Virgin make from this?

It will definitly contribute to the Q1 2007 results from Jan 1st to March 31st, and that's just the £35m they aren't paying.

Put that towards contracts on VOD for Lost and possibly 24 (note: no-one has second run rights on 24, like Ch4 has for Lost.) as well as the money Virgin are making from our Subscriptions without these channels... (I know everyone is saying 'you get it if your telephone, bla bla bla' but come on, there are 5 channels, not one, and they are worth something to Consumers.) Say its £1 for Sky One etc, that's £3m further to add.

Maybe we could even get exclusive rights to something up and coming in the states, and give 24/Lost a run for its money.

I believe Lost has Lost (no pun intended) its glitter now. Its not as Hyped up, and is running its course.

Series usually only survive about 6 seasons, then it becomes repetitive.

Prison Break is on Season 2, and that's better... Five got that, up and coming. Get that on VOD possibly?