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Originally Posted by TheDon
Confirmed this, the BBC don't pay anything to VM for the carriage of any of their linear channels.
No wonder Sky can afford to offer so many more channels when the BBC alone send £8m their way and VM gets nothing.
I'd really love to see sky try to justify that charge as well.
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I guess it's merely a business decision. To be honest even as a licence fee payer I don't really see why the BBC with their £3.5bn plus guaranteed income shouldn't pay the same as ITV for provisioning regional services, EPG slots and the likes given that's the system in place right now. However on the other side of the coin I can also understand the argument (like Murdoch uses in the USA) that platforms should pay carriage costs for the network channels. However unlike in the US the networks benefit from due prominence rules in the EPG so you cannot have it both ways. It is interesting though that as far as I know the BBC have not complained about the fees they pay Sky.
Did you find out how much VM charge other broadcasters for the services I referred to in my original post, I have looked everywhere but cannot find them.