Thread: General Virgin Media & UKTV+ITV Channels
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Old 26-07-2018, 15:14   #386
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Re: VM loses UKTV channels
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Another possible repercussion that VM have not taken into sccount. If the clause in the contract allowing them to remove channels with nothing that customers can do about it is found to be unfair, it will have to be removed of amended.

This could mean that, in the future, even the removal of something minor like a shopping channel could allow customers to leave within contract without financial penalty.
Which would be stupid, right?

Let's not over-react. Carriage disputes like this go on all the time in the US.

It has happened before between Sky and Virgin. Sky almost had its Discovery channels dropped barely a few months ago.

The TV industry is now under threat from the global streamers, and whether we like it or not, the telcos have to respond. They cannot afford to keep paying channels sky high prices for their content when all the content on providers like Netflix can be had for under a tenner.

I am afraid it is UKTV who are in denial.
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