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Originally Posted by mersey70
And not conclusive to me.
I don't know what Neil Berkett's team could be negotiating if what you say is indeed correct. I have no reason to doubt his word.
He seems a pretty upfront sort of guy to me.
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VM will of course tell there customers we are trying to get this channel. They don't want people who want this channel to leave. What we are not seeing from Sky is a company who thinks they are negotiating with anyone. Quite the opposite. They are quite up front about the fact that this channel is going to be an exclusive at least at launch. They have said to VM customers on twitter that they are not going to get the channel at launch. What companies say who are willing to let their channels appear on a platform is, you had better talk to your platform about this and get them to agree a deal with us.
Sky are being totally up front about it being only available on their platform. They of course want customers of other platforms to know it's exlusive to Sky for an obvious reason.
Also if you think that Sky is such an open platform company that they actually mean the opposite of what they are saying, how come VM subscribers are paying for the Sky sports package and £7 HD premium channel charge but not getting sports 3 & 4 HD? Why did VM have to sell their channels to Sky to get VM sports subscribers access to the red button content they were already paying for? Sky have plenty of form for this.