Thread: SKY VS Virgin Media
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Old 02-03-2007, 21:44   #305
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Re: SKY VS Virgin Media
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Originally Posted by gooner4life View Post
Also Sky may have asked for slightly more from Virgin Media but they were taking into account the fact that they previously had arrangements with NTL and Telewest and now the companies have merged the price had to reflect the fact they would receive a SINGLE fee.
So if NTL had 100k customers and Telewest had 100k customers, and each paid 50p per customer, why should the costs double? Or have I misunderstood something in the accounting?

And is that the same reason why Sky paid £5m instead of £35m for the channels from Telewest?
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