Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
07-06-2010, 00:52
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
I can see the potential for Sky Content being force separated from the delivery platform before too long. There is growing public disquiet at Murdoch's strangle hold over the media sector and this deal only contributes to this, in the end this could actually hurt Murdoch more in the long run than it could Virgin.
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07-06-2010, 03:22
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by djmagnifique
if sky drop tna from bravo then it might get picked up by extreme tv as they have been showing the TNA PPV's and TNA xplosion (a cut down 1hr version of impact and highlights from previous shows) http://tvguide.extreme.com/search.php |
I forgot about that, never got round to watching any PPV's on there. So hopefully they will pick it up.
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07-06-2010, 08:56
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by piquet41
Looks like Ben replied whislt I was typing. Thanks BenMcr77. Like you say, hopefully it will be fixed soon.
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It should now be fixed 
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07-06-2010, 09:05
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
Sorry if this has already been asked/answered but what does this sale mean for Virgin's stake in UKTV? Have they retained it or has that gone to BSkyB too? If they've retained it than this deal is amazing for Virgin because I'd have thought that the UKTV stake is a bigger asset than any of their 100% owned channels.
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07-06-2010, 09:08
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
UKTV is not affected by this
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07-06-2010, 10:41
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
UKTV is not affected by this
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How does that work in practise? Was it VM that owned 50% of UKTV or was it VMTV?
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07-06-2010, 11:28
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It should now be fixed |
Indeed it has. Thank you Ben.
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07-06-2010, 12:11
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It should now be fixed |
Good stuff 
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07-06-2010, 12:18
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
As far as I'm it's Virgin Media itself that owns the 50% not VMtv
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Thanks Ben. That makes more sense now.
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07-06-2010, 13:34
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It should now be fixed |
Many thanks for that Ben.
--John
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08-06-2010, 08:03
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
... they are completing the rollout of Caller Display in the remaining ExNTL blackspots (Telewest already was fully rolled out for years).
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DF, I tried to PM you with an off-topic question about caller display but it was rejected! I can think of understandable reasons why this might be but is there an alternative way to ask you this question or a suitable thread to post it in where you will see it?
Tnx.
---------- Post added at 09:03 ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 ----------
I have successfully registered at Sports and movies like you've never seen them before using e-mail addresses of the form:-
- firstname.lastname@ntlworld.com
- firstname_lastname@ntlworld.com
In each case, firstname and lastname are five characters in length.
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08-06-2010, 08:21
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
Now we know how BSkyB will pay for VMTV - By cash.
BSkyB will be paid a total of £318m as part of the final settlement of a long-running legal case against the Hewlett-Packard subsidiary Electronic Data Systems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...tt-packard-eds
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08-06-2010, 14:41
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
DF, I tried to PM you with an off-topic question about caller display but it was rejected! I can think of understandable reasons why this might be but is there an alternative way to ask you this question or a suitable thread to post it in where you will see it?
Tnx.
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I have successfully registered at Sports and movies like you've never seen them before using e-mail addresses of the form:-
- firstname.lastname@ntlworld.com
- firstname_lastname@ntlworld.com
In each case, firstname and lastname are five characters in length. |
Best just ask on here.. I don't accept PM's because a member on here became abusive towards me. I now prefere all questions/comments in the public forum 
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08-06-2010, 14:58
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
OK DF, much as I suspected regarding PMs.
I have now posted the message in Caller Display not available? where I see you are also active.
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08-06-2010, 15:19
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Re: Acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television
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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
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Just replied to you on that thread
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