[OLD BOY]

Just to put my posts in context, this is the content of post 1329 dated 15 August 2013:

So glad BT Sport has finally arrived and all the doubts expressed by so many people have been put to rest. I am especially pleased to see the channels arrive in the XL pack (which I thought might happen but wasn't 100% sure) and with the HD channels as well. Good negotiating from VM there as BT would have been trying to extract a bit more for the HD channels.

As mentioned earlier, the next big thing will be Sky Atlantic. VM have been in negotiations with Sky over the extension to the Sky basics channels and Sky also want VM's agreement to take their new Sky Bravo channel. All of this, together with the recent Fibre deal done with Sky indicates that we should have a good negotiating scenario to acquire Sky Atlantic.

So it now seems to me that Sky Atlantic will appear on cable before Christmas, but to be honest it could be with us any time from now on.

For those of you who are interested in these things, the numbers for the new channels received today are:

529 ESPN
530 ESPN HD
547 BT Sport 1
548 BT Sport 2
549 BT Sport 1 HD
550 BT Sport 2 HD

Happy viewing everyone!

Clearly, Christmas didn't happen, but I have made it very clear that this was my opinion, not a confirmed fact. I really cannot see why some of you are getting in such a state about this.

I think the common consensus is that we should move on, and I am happy with that.