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Originally Posted by Chad
Not really. A Virgin employee confirmed here last year that the deal for ESPN costs Virgin no more than 20p per XL customer per month. If Premier Sports does arrive as part of the XL package, Virgin will undoubtedly be paying them roughly the same as ESPN. 20p from my £24.50 subscription each month for a premium channel is fantastic value for money, in fact that's less than 1% of my monthly subscription charge for the XL package.
Now non sports fans on XL package may complain however general entertainment channels such as SKY Arts 1 & 2 HD have been added to the XL package in recent months, and dwindles the £24.50 XL money too, however not too many people complained when they were added. Sure SKY Arts 1 & 2 HD are not classed as premium channels however I'm sure Virgin will be paying a fair carriage price to SKY.
In reality any new channels or content added to the XL package dwindles the £24.50 XL charge. I'd much rather see Virgin invest the money in new channels to strengthen their packages than adding nothing at all, which has been the case more often than not in the last 6 months... if you excuse the arrival of SKY Arts HD.
XL customers who are not sports fans can look forward to SKY Anytime being added to their package in the coming months. This too dwindles the XL £24.50 charge however based on your reckoning is unfair on anyone on the XL package who doesn't like SKY programming.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that Chad , I'm sure the majority on here would much sooner see other content arriving before this , but I agree it's new content if it happens and to me that's a big IF.