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Originally Posted by mersey70
I broadly agree re. Sky 1.
By all accounts Sky are looking to considerably beef up their own commissions for Sky 1 and well they should given their track record, it will have a more British feel to it so it could be a win, win for their own customers who have Atlantic too but we will just have to wait and see.
I'd be happy with them investing in more British drama for Sky 1 for now.
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Given there enormous resources their track record is very poor in my opinion and I have heard stories about them considerably beefing up their commisions before.
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Originally Posted by nialli
Sky will be advertising the launch of Sky Atlantic at considerable expense, and that, coupled with the the money it has invested in procuring programmes, will mean that they want to keep it exclusive for a period - an expensive ad for Sky Atlantic is also a free ad for Sky.
Once the dust has settled they will probably drop the price for other platforms and we'll see it on Virgin and maybe BT too. I fear that this won't be in time for season 5 of Mad Men, which means I will end up watching my favourite show on my laptop rather than my HD TV 
Like Old Boy, this channel really appeals to me, but I'm not prepared to switch platforms for it. I still can't quite figure out why Sky didn't add it to the Sky Movies packages (that's how they premiered The Pacific last year) - I would have thought that would have driven more folk to take up more premium subscriptions and paid back quicker - but they've gone a different route, c'est la vie. |
You could be right but there is actually nothing to stop them keeping this channel exclusive to satellite. I wonder if there is any precedent for this. Has any other broadcaster started a general entertainment channel before with a view to restricting the amount of people who can actually view it? Not including just HD channels.