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Originally Posted by ocav
I'm not going to mention again how the letters MP were used in the article to make it stand out. It just happened to be that the leader of a Rugby Group was an MP. His request to Virgin Media was not in a government capacity, and it was a single MP and MPs
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It would be worrying if the Parliamentary Rugby League Group were to be able to force VM to carry a particular channel, but I've no doubt that their influence did help as MP's do have a lot of power.
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute
Premier Sports need Virgin far more than Virgin needs Premier Sports IMO
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Absolutely, VM always had the upper hand during negotiations.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Of course they don't, Dave, but behaving in the way they have been doing in the past is not cricket. In fact, it's downright uncompetitive. What other companies resort to such tactics?
The only thing preventing a deal involving the other missing Sky channels (particularly Sky 3D) is Virgin Media itself. Given that all new large screen TVs are now providing 3D as standard, I don't think Virgin would pass off the opportunity to add Sky's 3D offering because Virgin's is not awfully good at the moment.
So I am pretty optimistic, despite Media Boy's thinking that Sky 3D is not part of the likely Sky deal. We will know for sure within weeks.
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It is certainly not Cricket where Sky are concerned, they do not know the meaning of how to behave like gentlemen.
VM are to increase their VOD 3D offering, so I would be surprised if they didn't try to obtain Sky 3D to improve their niche offering.