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Originally Posted by denphone
Virgin should offer the customers the choice so if they want certain channels they can pay a little extra and if they don,t want it then customers do not have to pay for it, personally there are still a lot of channels that Virgin should be having and have not got at the moment because they do not want to pay for them or for some other reason.
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As has been explained before, VM don't pay for channels by subscriber (solely) - most channels/packages have a minimum baseline payment, and then topped-up by numbers of subscribers; it would appear that you are asking VM (who would have to pass the charge on to all customers) to pay the basic (which can be quite high) amount, just in case some individual customers may take up that channel/package.
For instance, Sky may have a basic charge of £10 million* for Sky Atlantic, which would cover 500,000 subscribers (with a charge on top per subscriber), and then have escalating bands of charges depending on the numbers of subscribers - that is is how it used to work in the 90's.
*amounts/numbers for example purposes only.