Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 1.
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Old 24-01-2013, 21:34   #722
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 1.
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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
That's the thing, not everyone is a sports fan. Are you a XL or VIP customer? If so would you like to have the option of opting out of having ESPN and HD included in your packge if it meant saving roughly £16 per month? Personally I always valued having access to ESPN at no extra cost.
It's not as simple as that though (sadly). As a non sports fan, I have thought that it is unfair that XL subs pay for a premiun channel that would cost extra on Sky; a channel that is of no interest to non sports fans. But presumably the reason that VM does that, is to get more overall subscribers to XL. If they got rid of ESPN 'for free' in the XL pack, there would doubtless be fewer XL subscribers, and therefore less revenue to spend on new HD channels anyway.

If that isn't the case, ESPN should be charged for separately as a premuim channel, but I suspect that it is.
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