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Originally Posted by vincerooney
no i doubt we are old boy but the worrying thing is theyre free channels. they wont be asking for much to come onto vm. so the urgent questions are
1) why are we not getting freeview channels?
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There is no such thing as 'free channels'. The channels may be advertiser rather than subscriber funded, but there are still significant costs in distributing them over and above production and content. It's not just a matter of someone pressing a button.
I assume in practice the money often flows the other way - the channels are expected to pay VM to carry them, just as they have to pay transmission and access costs for carriage on terrestrial TV.
It may be they are unwilling (or can't afford) to pay what VM charge for distribution over and above what they may be paying for transmission on Freeview and Sky.