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Originally Posted by jfman
It wasn't really. The VM dispute was settled because of the sale of Virgin channels to Sky, in exchange for a fee and a long term carriage arrangement.
The ITV dispute settled because it wasn't viable to keep the largest commercial channel off of the largest TV platform. It's not rocket science.
You are massively overestimating personalities and massively underestimating cold hard cash.
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The VM/Sky dispute was resolved in 2007, but the deal to sell the VM owned channels in return for most of the missing Sky material was done in 2010.
The information Re: The changes in key personell was reported on the internet, it should still be there.
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
VM and SKY were owned by the same people when the SKY dispute began and when the channels returned to SKY, there was no change in personell.
Money talked louder than handbags in the end.
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VM and Sky have
never been owned by the same people; the Competition Commission would never allow it (and for good reason too).