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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
What we have to look at here, is simply DO VM customers want channels ie like SAtlantic on the network, or is Mr Berkett, saying, l only want channels on the network if its good VM.
In the end its the customer, that Mr Berkett should listen too, its them that pays the bill at the end of the day.
What should happen is that VM should have channels that the consumer wants, like Sports, Docs, and drams, And this should be the customer choice. What l think could be happening here, is CAN l include it in the XL package, where the customer gets it within the normal price, or does he make it a premier channel where you have to pay for it.
I think this is what he is waiting for.
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What you say and the reality are completely different. Look at the viewing figures for the channel. If you extrapolate those to VM then which customers should Mr Berkett be listening to? The vast majority or the tiny minority? Because so far this channel is showing no signs of being popular even by pay tv standards.
I'm sure that Mr Berkett values every customer but I doubt he is going to harm the interests of the majority of his customers by looking to please a niche and paying over the odds only to have this money diverted away from projects/content that would be of use to the majority.
If it doesn't go into the XL pack and isn't movies or sport by Sky I doubt Mr Berkett even cares. I very much doubt he is waiting to offer Atlantic as a premium channels because firstly this would mean every few months Sky invent something new and charge XL customers more just to have it and secondly Mr Berkett would look silly trying flog a channel for money when Sky couldn't do it for free.