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Old 15-08-2018, 18:37   #1006
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Re: Virgin Media & UKTV+ITV Channels

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Originally Posted by tvtimes View Post
You missed my point, OB . I meant what was the point in not allowing customers out of contract, aggravating them even further, when VM as a company would have been aware a price rise was coming soon and those upset customers could leave anyway. It just made the situation worse and Virgin Media wouldn't have known at that immediate time the channels would definitely come back and they would eventually get a better deal.
Sorry, yes, I see what you meant.

Still, a contract is a contract, I suppose, and some of those refused may later decide to stay.

I agree that some would be upset, though.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the BBC been selling off their archive content to the likes of Netflix? How can the BBC give commitments to VM when they have sold off a lot of on-demand rights? Haven't the BBC made such promises before when they negotiated previously and they never came to fruition?
It depends whether Netflix have been given exclusive rights, and if each deal with Netflix is separate, then there is scope to negotiate at least future releases with VM as well as Netflix.

If exclusive rights have not been given, there's no problem as far as I can see.
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