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Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil
Exactly; when the Sky basic channels came back in 2008, they had placeholder channels up within a few days and the channels launched the week after. There's no reason to announce this now and then make us wait so long, especially as they're mainly promoting having the F1 in HD, and the F1 season has only just started.
If the channels don't launch within a short timeframe then they really need to ask themselves, is it better to announce now and then make people wait until an unspecified date, or announce it closer to the time?
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It may be the timing of the announcement was mainly driven by Sky, perhaps as a reassurance to their shareholders ahead of other announcements about takeover plans, and Virgin weren't quite ready?
However the implication from it was that the Sports HD channels would come more or less immediately, with the other two 'later'.
Having signed up to that announcement, Virgin really do need expand on what their plans are, otherwise they are missing the opportunity to capitalise on the deal, as well as fuelling "speculation".