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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I was told a while back (not long after Viacom bought Channel 5) that Viacom had approached VM and were keen to get 5* +1 back onto VM. This has taken much longer than I thought, so if I was a betting man i'd say that the negotiations were protracted by the inclusion of carriage negotiations for other Viacom owned channels.
At a guess i'd say that the channels will be 5* +1 (approached VM already about this), Spike TV (due to start around Easter time) and two other timeshift Viacom channels (going on the basis that Viacom appear to value +1 channels as one of the first things they did after buying Channel 5 was to get 5* +1 back on air).
However, we may see new parent music channels as they have had a large loss of viewers. Viacom will be keen to boost viewership with cable customers and VM will get them for a song as per my post earlier this year about music channels needing VM more than VM needs them.
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I hope Viacom axe Channel 5 +24 soon (All you see is Tellyshopping).