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Old 05-06-2010, 11:46   #131
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television

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Originally Posted by mertle View Post
With the likelyhood Sky force virgin to drop HD from XL and make new HD subscription service.
The only HD channel that is affected by this sale is Living HD

All the other channels are independent of either Sky or VM when it comes to the carriage agreement so Sky cannot force Virgin to change where they are placed.

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However the likelyhood bravo , living and virgin will become pap hybrid sky channels with the worst garbage. They well make sure Sky will take the best and put it on sky one.
Whatever you think of Sky I'm not sure why they would do this. The value of the channels is in the brand and the viewers. If Sky wanted to programs to put on Sky 1 they could have just bid for them in the first place.

If Sky 'asset strip' they channels then they are making their own purchase worthless
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