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Old 04-10-2017, 16:18   #2827
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Personally, I think that Sky and Virgin have the whip hand here. I don't understand why RTE think they can just demand this money and these platforms will pay up.

If they are not bothered whether or not they carry RTE, then RTE will just have to accept the devision or lose a massive amount of advertising revenue.

The same goes for ITV as long as there is no legislation getting in the way of this.
ITV and RTE are both overplaying their hand as you say so l think it is just a matter of time before a reasonable agreement is struck by all.
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