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**Chris** · 16-05-2012, 14:02

See my post above. Sky Atlantic is just another ploy to get round past rulings regarding availability of Sky channels on other platforms. There was plenty of room among the endless re-runs of The Simpsons for all the HBO stuff to go on Sky One. It would have cost them less to do it that way. They didn't do it that way, because Sky Atlantic is all about maintaining a level of exclusivity for the Sky platform that the regulator has previously attempted to curb. The HBO deal was IMO just a convenient fig-leaf to allow them to launch the channel without it being quite so blatant an attempt to put one over the folks at Ofcom.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,083	Re: Underhand devious Sky See my post above. Sky Atlantic is just another ploy to get round past rulings regarding availability of Sky channels on other platforms. There was plenty of room among the endless re-runs of The Simpsons for all the HBO stuff to go on Sky One. It would have cost them less to do it that way. They didn't do it that way, because Sky Atlantic is all about maintaining a level of exclusivity for the Sky platform that the regulator has previously attempted to curb. The HBO deal was IMO just a convenient fig-leaf to allow them to launch the channel without it being quite so blatant an attempt to put one over the folks at Ofcom.