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Originally Posted by muppetman11
To be fair Technix broke this one a few days ago he even gave a channel number , credit were credits due with the odd exception he's been bang on the money , anyone know if Premier Sports is to be at an additional cost or included in XL ?
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Originally Posted by denphone
From what l know PS will be a additional cost MM.
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The last I heard was that, following intervention by the Parliamentary Rugby League Group, VM had made "an improved offer" to PS, but that it was still likely to be a standalone channel.
I wasn't told anything about the channel being unscrambled for the RWC.
If it does go into XL and/or the RWC will be made available to all subscribers, it looks like negotiations have gone better that what was hoped. For once, MP's have achieved something positive
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Originally Posted by johnathome
After the grief VM got over the Setanta debacle, i'm talking about the 'unable to cancel' farce and VM CS getting the brunt from disgruntled subscribers, i'd be surprised if they allowed someone else on their platform who controlled the subscriptions.
Doesn't Premier have one of the guys behind it who was involved with Setanta?
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One of the Directors of PS was also a Director of Setanta. This is nothing unusual in business and wouldn't influence any decision by VM on whether to carry PS or not.
I agree that VM won't ever allow any third party to control their own subscriptions, look at what happened with BT Sport! AIUI, channels such as Boxnation are bought wholesale by a subsidiary of VM (Virgin Media Entertainment Services) and then retailed directly to VM customers.