Thread: General Virgin Media & UKTV+ITV Channels
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Old 29-07-2018, 15:51   #555
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Re: Virgin Media & UKTV+ITV Channels
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Originally Posted by japitts View Post
It seems both sides are becoming, publicly at least, quite entrenched - not good but not entirely unexpected.

In the blue corner, we have Virgin who may well have undervalued the UKTV portfolio and will only be persuaded otherwise by cancellations, downgrades and lower new customer numbers.

In the red corner, UKTV who have overvalued their channels or are indeed not offering OD sufficient to "replace" the BBC archive. They will only be persuaded otherwise, by advertisers reducing spend etc or the total loss of VM's carriage fees starting to hit.

And in the meantime, UKTV say "we're probably not coming back" & VM carrying on with reallocating the EPG slots :-( Not good..

I'm beginning to lose confidence in this being resolved soon, maybe it might take a month or longer for the financial figures to start being hit. Or maybe the EPG slot threat might do it, hmmm....
To be honest, I think Virgin have walked away in exasperation. Unless UKTV can come up with an acceptable offer, I don't think any further talks will be arranged.

So my advice to UKTV is to stop winding up Virgin's customers by Tweet and start talking to the BBC about their ludicrous stance on OD content. Only that and/or a reduction in price is going to move these talks on now.
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