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RichardCoulter · 02-05-2012, 21:48

I'm not sure about that Carl, as we had NTL here.

It has now been confirmed that the Sony Movie Channel will be FTV on Sky.

It looks like Sky are putting them on the one year probationary period to see what the ratings are like, before giving them a cut of the subscription money.

Hopefully, as Sony will obviously want to maximise their ratings* and the fact that SET is on VM, it will appear on VM.

*Unless BARB figures are broken down per platform and any cable viewers won't push up the satellite figures. Does anybody know if this is the case?

Maybe that's why we got SET, to push the figures up as that channel also appears to be on a probationary period. Perhaps Sony let VM have SET for free to help the aggregated figures (purely speculation on my part.)

02-05-2012, 21:48	#501
RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,803	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2012) Vol. 2. I'm not sure about that Carl, as we had NTL here. It has now been confirmed that the Sony Movie Channel will be FTV on Sky. It looks like Sky are putting them on the one year probationary period to see what the ratings are like, before giving them a cut of the subscription money. Hopefully, as Sony will obviously want to maximise their ratings* and the fact that SET is on VM, it will appear on VM. *Unless BARB figures are broken down per platform and any cable viewers won't push up the satellite figures. Does anybody know if this is the case? Maybe that's why we got SET, to push the figures up as that channel also appears to be on a probationary period. Perhaps Sony let VM have SET for free to help the aggregated figures (purely speculation on my part.)