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Originally Posted by Saneboy13
The cost was just shy of £40million extra sky wanted for VM to carry those channels. As for your quote about sky offering to carry the feed themselves, I don't know where you get that from, but it's total rubbish.
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James Murdoch is quoted as saying...
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We operate an open platform. We prepared for them, prior to the renewal of their retail carriage agreement, a whole open access package that would have allowed them to retail their Flextech channels. They did not want to do that, perhaps because they did not want to take the risk. We offered to do the same deal with our channels on Virgin. We have said "look we'll provide your customers with the channels, we'll take the risk, it won't cost you a penny". But they seem to like having a closed platform.
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Also, in the same article, he refers to the 3p per customer per day deal - it is not, as you say, supplementary to their previous price. The 3p per customer per day is the total price.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2026790,00.html