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Originally Posted by nialli
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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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?  |
It could be they haven't dropped the now £10.25 HD charge as it rakes in around £300 million per year!
Maybe once they have recouped their HD investment they will drop the HD charge like they did with the Sky+ fee, or maybe they won't. Who knows.