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Originally Posted by TheDon
Sky's pricing model means they make a profit on all channels regardless of it anyone even takes the pack they're in.
Every single channel on their epg has to pay them a platform contribution fee.
I'd be interested to see how much it costs the BBC to be on VM, as we know it costs them nearly £4.5m JUST for BBC one to be on Sky. Tempted to put in a freedom of information request to the BBC to find out.
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You are correct regarding Sky's platform charges, the procedure and charges are publicly available to view including EPG slot and encryption charges. The BBC rely on Sky to carry out their regional provisions even though it is not encrypted and they also have to pay licensing costs for red button etc although this may well be to Kudelski rather than Sky. They do not pay transmission costs as such to Sky as they rent capacity direct from the satellite operators. It is debatable if this is right as Murdoch made a hoo hah about the carriage of Fox in the US and got a carriage fee.
What is Virgin Media's procedure for inclusion on their EPG, carriage, encryption and interactve charges?. Genuine question as I have looked and looked but cannot find any information. I have read (cannot vouch for it's accuracy) the BBC do not pay anything (at least for the must carry channels) but I am more interested about other channels really to get a better understanding of the set up.
Freesat's EPG and other charges are also publicly available too if anyone is interested, and is owned of course by the BBC and ITV plc.