Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Old 02-08-2018, 21:45   #1685
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by Raider999 View Post
Agreed, however sky built their company on sports and in particular Premier Football.

You only have to look at the relative cost of having all sky sports channels against having all the movie channels to realise, like it or not, sports drives sky.

Similarly, BT chose to boost their to offering by getting into sports not movies.
We lose some channels and gain others. I don't see Virgin's offering being worse following the absence of the UKTV channels. Anything I watched on Alibi or W tended to be disappointing, and those were originals.

Goodbye to bad rubbish, I say.

However, I have found myself watching Love Nature and Paramount, so a plus for me.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
I'm well aware of that and fully agree but my point to Mad Max was as follows.

With the removal of pay channels more people are likely to leave , the more who leave the costlier the subscription goes for those who remain.

As an example Virgin has agreed carriage costs with BT for its Sport channel , the more people leaving requires those remaining to pay more until it can renew it's agreement at contract end.

I'm not saying losing the UKTV channels alone will have a huge impact on Virgin but at the prices both Virgin and Sky now charge they have to be cautious.
New channels are being added as well. Maybe it would be better to reassess later in the autumn, when the full extent of the planned changes will be known.
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