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Originally Posted by richard1960
As i recall arthur the aggro over the basics also centred on the fact sky tried to get Living,Bravo off virgin on the cheap (carriage deal) citing the fact the channels were worthless whilst wanting top dollar for their own basic channels,sky of course have gone on to buy living from virgin media proving of course how worthless a channel it was.Of course in the basics dispute sky soon came back after much negotiaitng with a much more realistic offer for their basics.
So its not always only vm wanting channels on the cheap. 
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According to some on here Sky pay silly money (post 51) which is clearly not true and why would they with the benefit of 10.1 million subscribers on their platform. They have more money to play around with than VM but I suspect both try and negotiate the best deals for their customers.