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Old 13-01-2011, 16:06   #16
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Re: Were VM wrong to sell channels to Sky

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Originally Posted by mersey70 View Post
That is a totally different argument, I agree it isn't great when Sky (and UKTV for that matter) only provide some of their own channels to a particular platform. I am talking about content providers owning platforms. ITV and BBC do now. And VM do (for now).

Freesat and Sky have an non discriminatory access policy and that is a fact, VM don't seem to although I accept it is a quite different infrastructure.
What has that got to do with Sky denying cable customers access to this channel. As a cable customer who has had this happen twice I feel disinclined to make excuses for them. Sky could have sold this channel to us and made a nice profit but that would have stood in the way of their drive to be a monopoly. Something that is against all of our interests.
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