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Originally Posted by Chris
Virgin would be extremely stupid to sell them to Sky at any price. They would be completely at the mercy of a company that runs not only the most successful pay-TV delivery platform, but also the most successful channels. Virgin would be left with only a delivery platform, and totally reliant on its major competitor to provide any decent content to show on it.
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But that's what Virgin want, Virgin don't want to be a content provider.
It's the old NTL business plan. NTL made up their minds many years ago that they just wanted to deliver the service over their network.
Viritually all of the TV side of things came over with Telewest, and I don't think it has sat well ever since.
I also agree, I don't think VM need to be a content provider.