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Originally Posted by muppetman11
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.
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When the sky basics dispute started virgin had really only just re-branded muppetman11,so what i suspect was happening was sky was trying to spoil the launch party by offering a paltry amount for vm branded channels branding them at the time "worthless" as they did,and after the carriage deal ran out withdrawing their own basics from virgin media customers and asking top dollar for them.
The sky basics dispute was sorted out eventually alledegly when skys advertisers asked for a reduction in fees to balance the decreased viewership of the channels and sky eventually came back to the table with a much more realistic carriage agreement which was duly signed.
