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Could that be the real issue re: existing contract between espn and virgin media irrespective of new owners.

I would guess Probably not because BT mention in their marketing strategy that after 31st July virgin will no longer have access to espn so would disagree with that assumption that vm "has" to carry it

@richardcoulter: may I ask why you personally should be informed of whether sky workers are not following supposed direction from management. Surely that would be up to sky to deal with much as virgin media workers following direction from their management regarding advice they give in retentions