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Gunslinger · 20-07-2018, 09:34

Read between the lines.
At the end of the day, it is not about 'on demand' rights for back catalogue BBC stuff - which are retained by the BBC and which they are pretty obviously not keen to give away for peanuts - as licence fee payers we should hopefully expect no less.
It is really about VM imposing a fees reduction on UK TV for the stuff we already get - or got. The perception is that it is over priced for what is currently on offer, and I suspect there is an element of truth in that. On that basis an 11th hour resolution is always possible - as with the previous ITV standoff which now seems to have gone away.

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Gunslinger cf.addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oxfordshire Age: 77 Services: VM XL, Tivo, BB, Prime, Now TV, Tennis TV Posts: 152	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018) Read between the lines. At the end of the day, it is not about 'on demand' rights for back catalogue BBC stuff - which are retained by the BBC and which they are pretty obviously not keen to give away for peanuts - as licence fee payers we should hopefully expect no less. It is really about VM imposing a fees reduction on UK TV for the stuff we already get - or got. The perception is that it is over priced for what is currently on offer, and I suspect there is an element of truth in that. On that basis an 11th hour resolution is always possible - as with the previous ITV standoff which now seems to have gone away.