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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I agree , especially with the amount of Half Price codes knocking about at the moment.
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SKY are going to get even more aggressive with their 50% off codes in the next few months. My SKY insider, yes I have an insider, confirmed all staff just received 10 codes each earlier this week to give to family and friends. Plenty more will be made available to the general public via the usual money saving websites in the coming months.
Put it this way, the codes will be very accessible to anyone who wants to save a small fortune on pay TV over the next 12 months.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So much speculation! You will need to wait until Virgin do the deal! It is likely that we will have to wait for an announcement because VM are negotiating the best possible price.
My guess is that Virgin will take the amount currently calculated for the ESPN deal and just charge the difference between that and what BT are charging. I'm not sure that Virgin have the resources to make the channels completely free.
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I'm not convinced that BT really want to do a deal.
http://www.digitaltveurope.net/54521...gin-talk-talk/
"BT Retail CEO Gavin Patterson said the firm was still open to doing wholesale deals for its forthcoming sports channels with Virgin Media and Talk Talk, but stressed its strategy wasn’t dependent on it.
Speaking at a BT Sport launch event in London this morning, Patterson said that talks were ongoing with Virgin and would “hopefully continue” in the coming weeks, but claimed it was difficult for the cable TV rival to do a “value proposition” until BT was able to announce details of its sport offering.
“We’ve had similar discussions with Talk Talk as we have with Virgin. Philosophically we’re not against, wholesale, we’d be open to it, it’s really about value – what our perception of the value of it is, and what their perception of the value is, and there’s a gap at the moment,” said Patterson.
Asked whether he could imagine a point where BT would simply walk away from wholesale discussions he added: “Our strategy is not dependent on wholesale. It’s not completely within our control – it’s whether or not we can find the right valuation between us and others. We couldn’t rely on it in that respect, so we’ve built a strategy, we’ve built a business plan that doesn’t necessarily depend on us wholesaling this.”
This sounds very much like the negotiations between Virgin and SKY for SKY Atlantic. That channel launched over 2 years ago and still no sign of it on Virgin.