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Originally Posted by TheDon
No, they don't.
Sky only publish them because their EPG is "open". Anyone can get an EPG slot, and they have to offer them on fair and reasonable pricing. As such it's all standardised pricing and completely transparent.
VM on the other hand, is an entirely closed system, and their carriage agreements (like Sky's where they pay the channels money to carry them or subsidise the platform costs) are confidential.
Sky's platform contributions are only half the story really. Sure all the channels "pay" these fees, but many of them will get more in return from Sky for them carrying them. So it's really only half a story, and the fees are only able to be taken at face value for FTA channels.
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If you are saying Sky's charges are unfair then that's fine, I would have some sympathy with that in the sense they perhaps charge too much, not that they charge at all though. That's the system.
But really you have no idea whether VM actually charge even more than Sky do you, by your own admission no one does. It would explain why so many FTA channels don't bother with VM if they do though and broadcasters swap rather than add channels from their portfolio.
Who knows but without the information regarding VM's charges there's no comparison to be made for me so I cannot really criticise Sky.
I'd be doing so half blind.