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Originally Posted by Mobes
I'm in two minds about this.
On one hand i find it utterly ludicrous that VM would WANT to sell it's stations to Sky given thay, in the future, it could have trouble securing a reasonable price to broadcast them (i.e the Sky 1 debacle).
It also means VM giving up any "card hand" in negotations with Sky (i.e Living HD and BTW will this mean VM no longer able to broadcast Living HD if it becomes owned by Sky???)
BUT i GUESS it could mean we are closer to having Sky HD channels on VM.
I hop ethat VM have made sure in any sales contract that the channels they sell to Sky can NEVER NOT be shown on the VM platform.
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I find it hard to imagine they would sell to sky without safeguards against being screwed by sky in future negotiations. I also find to equally hard to imagine for such a deal not to be tied in with more sky channels coming to virgin.
After all these months of hardball by virgin they surely wont simply say to sky "okay we will sell the channels to you and of course we will trust to you to be fair in future negotiations".
It would be madness.
But then again never say never!