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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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!
We honestly don't know what deal ITV and Virgin have agreed on regarding the retransmission fees. For all we know ITV MIGHT of given in on their demand for it.
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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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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.