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Originally Posted by heavyside
The point about Sky Atlantic that's easy to overlook is that Sky have already stated that they are also moving their new and best home-grown drama from Sky One to the new channel. That's going to mean that the likes of the Terry Pratchett and Andy McNab dramas will find a new home there. I, too, hope that VM manage to strike a deal on Sky Atlantic.
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Wow. You mean BOTH of their homegrown series for 2011 will be on Sky Atlantic??
I dont' think that's true, and it's hardly the end of the world. Much as I enjoyed Thorne, there is far more superior UK-produced series on even BBC4 than Sky has on all of its channels.
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Originally Posted by ahardie
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.
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.
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Sky1 was satellite only during the big bust up a few years ago. Advertisers forced Sky to put it back on Virgin. I think VirginOne may have been exclusive to cable for a few weeks, not sure on that.
Sky has 10m TV customers, VM has shy of 4m. Advertisers want the eyeballs, they don't care about platforms, and as Sky isn't generating any additionals subs revenues with Sky Atlantic and platform jumpers are likely to be insignificant, they'll broaden the audience for Sky Atlantic at some point, it's just a matter of when. Or they'll charge for it.
I don't pretend to understand some of Sky's logic. I would have thought they would have dropped the £10 a month HD sub by now, but they haven't.
All off topic for this thread - why doesn't Media Boy start a "Not coming soon to Virgin Media" thread for this kind of discourse?
