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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
If you were Sky, would you have agreed to let your competitor have all future channels? For ever? for Living TV/Bravo/Challenge and Channel one?
Especially when you've just given them Sky1HD, Sky Movies HD, red button access & Sky VoD.
(Sky Sports HD as a seperate deal from Ofcom pressure)
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No.
Virgin/Sky agreed a carriage deal for their basic channels, for the next 10 years, correct? Virgin should have asked them to agree to a set price (similar to whatever they agreed on for Sky1) for any future basic pay channels - if for no other reason than because Sky could now potentially reduce the budget right down on Sky 1/2/Living, move all their popular/first-run content to a new "Sky Zero" and they wouldn't be compelled to sell it to Virgin
at any price - not that I'm saying this will happen, but it could!
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Originally Posted by clinteastman
Even if they did we still wouldn't have Sky Atlantic as it's only being offered free at the moment, it goes behind a pay wall in August, making it not a basic channel. ersonally I don't give a hoot about Sky Atlantic. 
Also it's good to hear that VM are looking to use there networks bigest plus over Sky to bring about my utopian dream, the death of linear TV, it's so old hat |
It's going in to Sky's Variety pack isn't it? Which means it could feasibly go in to any of VM's TV packages (M+/L/XL). When VM lost carriage of these channels in 2007 they were called "Sky Basics" - call them what you like!