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Originally Posted by telegramsam
If ITV and Sky had a spat over contracts and ITV channels were removed,imagine the loss of revenue ITV would suffer through lost advertising! Sky have a massive TV customer base,much larger than Virgin,so it would really be suicidal for ITV to ever contemplate it.
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Well, ITV can't ask for retransmission fees from Sky on satellite, only when their dishless service starts.
Any dispute about carriage fees would only affect the HD versions of ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4. Even then, there would be nothing to stop ITV making them available FTA.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You could say that in respect of UKTV's premium channels, but UKTV definitely pulled the free channels. VM were quite happy to continue making those channels available.
Anyway, it's all a bit academic really.
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The truth is, both companies stood to lose too much without a deal and they stepped back from the brink. A very wise move.
It's a completely different situation with UKTV. All their channels put together have much lower ratings than ITV's main channel.
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I've explained what actually happened in post #538; none of the channels were actually pulled by either party on the weekend in question. It was VM who made the channels invisible to domestic STB's because they had no choice.