Thread: TiVo How should Virgin offer the Olympics to their customers?
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Old 19-04-2012, 21:38   #85
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Re: How should Virgin offer the Olympics to their customers?
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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
Even if Virgin had offered to carry linear channels, I don't think the BBC would have said yes anyway.

With Sky doing it, it gets carried on satellite, meaning due to the BBC 'non-exclusive' remit, both Freesat and cable gain access. That wouldn't be the case if Virgin carried it.
I wasn't suggesting that VM would ask the BBC for linear channels just for VM. I would assume that any request for linear channels, by whatever providor requested them, would be available to any provider that wanted to carry them. As it stood before Sky persuaded the BBC, there were no linear channels available and confirmed full access was only available only via the web or Tivo.
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