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Originally Posted by telegramsam
Looking at it from another point of view, ITV could of looked at Virgins hard stance with UKTV and thought "hey we don't want our channels withdrawn from the Virgin Media platform, we'll give in to what Virgin Media want". Just my opinion guys.
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What VM wanted was to not start paying the retransmission fees that ITV wanted to start charging and had thus far always said that they would not pay them. The issue had been in deadlock for the past 18 months.
All things considered, I really don't think that ITV will have suddenly said, ok, you win, forget about the retransmission fees!
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Originally Posted by denphone
There was no ultimatum as that imaginary word is only in the pages of some newspapers who like to write banner headlines without any substantiation of proof.
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Retransmission fees were always part of the wider deal that ITV and Virgin signed so that was obviously not going to be announced until a full deal had been reached between the two on other matters.
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Up until the deal was agreed, the VM stance was that they would not pay any retransmission fees point blank.
ITV gave VM an ultimatum to resolve the outstanding issues or they would switch off their feeds as early as the weekend. It can be no coincidence that this was done at this particular time.
Up until that point, VM had intended to broadcast an unauthorised feed from the Astra satellite intended for Freesat and Sky DTH customers.
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Originally Posted by Ddonald2016
It’s really good news just wish itv or virgin would do into more detail
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That's unlikely to happen for reasons of commercial confidentiality, especially as VM wouldn't want to encourage the other eligible channels to make similar demands for retransmission fees, even though I now think that they will do anyway.