Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
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Old 28-07-2016, 16:22   #1475
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
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Originally Posted by theone2k10 View Post
Ofcourse they make money out of them, they'd like you to think they don't but trust me they make a nice tidy profit out of them.
Maybe things have changed, then. I remember distinctly that some years ago Virgin stated that they could not make a profit from these channels as Sky would not negotiate a wholesale price.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
AIUI they never used to make any money out of them, so never really marketed them. They were only there as a convenience for customers and to compete with Sky via channel parity.

When the Sky basics returned after the dispute, part of the settlement was that the pricing structure for the movie channels would be changed to allow VM to make something from providing them in return for marketing them more aggressively.
Ah, that makes sense.
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