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Originally Posted by TheDon
Sky's are published.
FOI request to the BBC showed they don't pay VM anything.
Sadly there's not really a way to do that. It's easy to find out what the BBC pay who because the FOI act covers pretty much everything they do. For other companies it's going to be neigh on impossible due to it being classed as business sensitive information.
It does make me think though that maybe VM should operate more like Sky. Charge flat rates for channels to be on the EPG and appropriate platform contribution costs, and as long as they're competitive with Sky's then that should mean there's no reason why a channel shouldn't launch on VM?
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And it's also easy to find out what the BBC and every single channel on the Sky platform pay because British Sky Broadcasting publish it, publicly.
So with respect (BBC, aside) how do you know VM don't operate the same as Sky? They might not, I don't know.
I'll ask again in case you misunderstood me. Do VM publicly display their platform charges? I have looked high and low and cannot find them. I merely googled 'BSKY platform charges' and found them immediately, it was the very first result!
I'd love to read them. It might give us a better understanding about why broadcasters feel the need to swap channels and other channel related issues. All I can find is very, very general info on the procedure of channel allocation.
I doubt we will find out though.
http://www.virginmedia.com/about/wor...#05-allocation