Thread: General Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
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Old 20-01-2021, 09:03   #117
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Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2021)

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Originally Posted by Derekb108 View Post
Why has Sky got the exclusivity rights to Discovery+, when Liberty Global has the overall share of Discovery Inc? That surely isn't fair?
It's probably because sky were willing to pay a premium to have Discovery+ as an exclusive and Virgin Media couldn't or wouldn't pay the amount that sky were willing to pay.

It doesn't matter that Liberty Global owns overall share of Discovery Networks. Each business within a group runs as its own entity.

Just like Samsung's phone business has to compete with other phone manufacturers to buy memory from Samsungs Semiconductor Memory Business. They're separate companies even though they're are owned by the same group.
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