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Originally Posted by howardmicks
Recent developments have not been suprising to me at all,When it emerged that sky were buying vm`s channels i felt it would come back to haunt them.Vm were looking desperate to sell and sky knew it and vm are now and for the forseable future going to see the backlash of there actions,tivo looks very promising (tad overpriced) but its all well and good having a new platform but you have got to have the channels for people to watch.
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And they will, the carriage agreement runs for the next 9 years.
And lets not forget, thanks to that deal, VM got most of the Sky HD channels as well, along with Sky Red Button and Sky VOD content.
Both sides got something out of the deal. And bear in mind what happened to Sky 1's ratings when that channel was removed from cable. VM are Sky's wholesale biggest customer and Sky will think twice about doing that again.
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Originally Posted by Chris
VM won't get it any time soon. Sky Atlantic is a classic BSkyB tactic: now all its other channels are available on VM it simply creates a new channel where it can put its exclusive content.
I won't be at all surprised to find many new US programmes that previously would have been screened on Sky1 now finding their way on to Atlantic instead.
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The only import moving from Sky 1 to SkyA is nBSG.