What about stuff like Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, The Dresden Files, Bones, The 4400, & Cold Case?
Ok well my nan likes watching Lost which I believe its on series 2 which at the moment VM is showing Lost series 1.
However lets not forget that this only happened on 1st March
Its still early days, Virgin are not going to pay out $Millions to obtain the legal copyright rights to broadcast Lost Series 2 on demand for free along side...
Stargate, Attlantis, Battlestar Galactica, The Dresden Files, Bones, The Simpsons, Futurama, The 4400, Cold Case, Star Strek and so on.
If a DECENT negotiation can be made with Sky that benefits ALL customers or 90% of customers then they will move towards that
However a super complaint so SkyNews have stated has been initiated by the fair trading office.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...570032,00.html
Sky News can be watched online along side Sky Sports News along side with many other channels available on the basic package for FREE.
Why should Virgin pay out rights at a blink of an eye if there is still room for negotiations even if its past the deadline of the contract for broadcasting
Before you know it the channels could be back in 7 days for all you know, only because the channels have gone doesnt mean Virgin Media have ceased trying to negotiate, instead for what I hear, Virgin tried to get a 3rd party who was non biosed involved for an opinion on the prices Sky was asking for to which Sky refused (See BBC Link)
As for the price option,
You have to consider there, the time it takes to do a poll
Website & TV Poll- Programming and paying the IT team to do this (Even tho its part of their job and wages they would have to stop projects already in development just to attend to this one, therefore postponing the tasks already set out and having to pay out more)
Phone Poll (Call Tree Options)
No one really wants to listen to a 2minute recording about Sky channels before calling up and the earlderly customers complaint about the call tree full stop can you imagine what it could be like with a poll on it.
and customers who may have experianced a fault would be more encouraged to disconnect if they hear there is a potential issue with the channels also.
The Time:
Finally the Time to gather the poll together, Sky like to leave things to last minute to force customers a loss of service so they would want to go over to Sky if a negotiation is not meet, so nothing new there.
and lets say 90% said yes I want to pay Sky's offering it would more than likely be sky would then change their price so that if VM agreed customers would still be hacked off.
or if they didnt agree to the channels increase then there would still be a minority that would be complaining
and during contact with people from VM I would say its the minority that are complaining about it.
Without trying to get personal or offensive I would state, that watching as much TV as your making out to sound with all those programmes listed above is not healthy, I watch maximum 6hrs a week TV, its there for times I dont have anything to do or to kill time before going out.
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Sky One is NOT on Freeview and never has been. Just to clarify.
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Your quite right its sky news and sky sports news (sorry for the confusion there peeps)
I thought it was Sky one and Sky 3but that was NTL not freeview as it was the ITV channels that where on freeview (ITV4) and that takes me back to when ITV4 was on freeview and not on Telewest
People complained and disconnected, whilst negotiations where going on with ITV, once an agreement had been reached customers where having to call back for the service because they heard it was now available on cable and how their Freeview box didnt pick up a good signal (Once again sorry for the confusion there peeps)