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Old 13-02-2013, 20:48   #1489
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 1.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu View Post
What l think a problem is that customers wont pay the extra money to get these channels. Last year VM increased charges, but without new channels.
So Virgin Media must have got it right, then? They don't provide the channels because we won't pay extra for them!

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu View Post
Hopefully, with this new company we will have new channels especially with this rivalry with Murdoch.
I doubt you will see much change. Liberty have confirmed that they will broadly follow VM's strategy.

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Originally Posted by Qtx View Post

Back on topic, why is Virgin not investing in making their own decent Sky Atlantic alternative?
Because they are not concerning themselves with the content side any more, as you well know.

They could, of course, commission other providers to set up exclusive channels on Virgin Media, but I don't think they want to go down that road.

I think they may be of the view that one platform hogging exclusive programmes, films and sport for themselves is not in the interests of consumers. If VM went down that route, we'd all have to pay for both Sky and VM to access all the channels on which exclusive programming appeared. With BT coming into the fold big time, you can see where this would lead.

Unfortunately, Sky don't seem to care about such niceties as to what is best for the consumer. They might have to re-think if BT start playing hardball with them. If BT withheld exclusive programming (such as football!) from them, we'd never hear the end of it.
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