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Originally Posted by thegrid
I had read that elsewhere as well but I wanted to see if somebody else could confirm it. I had a feeling this would happen. I'm gonna remain skeptical until it's confirmed in writing...but things may be starting to look up!
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You should remain skeptical, a lot of rubbish is floating around.
Perhaps most people on this thread are unaware that Liberty Global, who now own VM, had their Q2 results webcast yesterday.
Mike Fries, Liberty's CEO, mentioned BT Sports and in a nutshell, there is no agreement for the BT sports channels to come onto cable.
Fries explained that he invited BT's CEO and Sky's CEO to meet him and the new VM management board in London last week. Despite the face-to-face contact, no agreement was reached to get the BT channels. Fries hopes to get them in the future but only at the right price, as he perceives it to be.
Another interesting tit bit was to do with Horizon, Liberty's own cable box software which is launching in Ireland and Germany now. Fries explained that he demoed a cloud based version of Horizon, with the hope of eventually doing away with cable boxes altogether.