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Originally Posted by paulsouth
end of the day sky sports f1 is free to sky subscribers but not to virgin media subscribers.. thats a joke.. on both networks should be the same prises on all channels and packages to the subscribers..its only fair..
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Sky are the rights holders and can do with the F1 rights as they see fit after paying for them and have done just that,making sure any VM customers wanting to view have to stump up.
I was just trying to say in my earlier posting VM may well still have been in a position to buy/comission rights themselves, had Sky not scuppered the impending deal for VM to merge with ITV,just imagine if sky had not have bought those shares and VM had of sealed the deal the missing ITV HD channels would have been owned by VM, Sky saw Virgin Medias aquisition of ITV as a real threat,so acted to keep market dominence.
The regulator as usual was useless.
If a big company such as ITV was owned by VM just imagine they might even have been able to afford the rights to F1.!!!