Thread: Guardian: "Sky Atlantic won't be on Virgin Media soon, says BSkyB boss"
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Old 10-02-2011, 18:01   #150
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Re: Guardian: "Sky Atlantic won't be on Virgin Media soon, says BSkyB boss"
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Unless it's about regulating Virgin Media in which case it's bad, bad, bad. As expected given most of this forum's population are VM retail customers!
That's true. Mass regulating pay tv would lead to VM suffering regulation too . E.g. the competition on a platform only basis argument fails quite simply because VM have a superior platform. Unless off course platforms themselves are regulated to make them homogeneous. In which case VM lose out because Sky's marketing budget would blow VM out of the water on a like for like platform basis. But then we have regulators dictating what a company can and cannot do. It ends up being the DTV version of a communist lada car.

And this is before the very hilarious fact that in the context of this regulation argument, VM gave Sky even more power by selling them its channels. Yet VM don't mind so I doubt any regulator ever would.
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