New interview with VM CEO

For those who are interested, VM CEO interview

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/m...nd-battle.html

[Helix]

‘We have all the Sky channels, having just done a six-year deal with them. It gives us certainty and it gives them certainty to go out and buy programmes.

Interesting, but I'm sure he was either misquoted or made a mistake.

Yes, one or the other as Atlantic isn't part of the deal.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Helix

Interesting, but I'm sure he was either misquoted or made a mistake.

Or intentionally misleading like VM has a reputation for. He is obviously aware VM do not have all the Sky channels but yet he is claiming they do in the article. Naughty.

Originally Posted by Qtx

Or intentionally misleading like VM has a reputation for. He is obviously aware VM do not have all the Sky channels but yet he is claiming they do in the article. Naughty.

There are 2 things you can guarantee on The Cable Forum - Arthur going on about the Conservatives and QVC dissing VM.

What he actually said was

"‘We have all the Sky channels, having just done a six-year deal with them. It gives us certainty and it gives them certainty to go out and buy programmes.

‘It’s all the sports channels, all the cinema channels, the services which put the channels on tablets and HD"

So factually correct

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Top banana

There are 2 things you can guarantee on The Cable Forum - Arthur going on about the Conservatives and QVC dissing VM.

There are 2 things you can guarantee on The Cable Forum. Top banana dissing QVC and Top banana mis-spelling Qtx.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

There are 2 things you can guarantee on The Cable Forum. Top banana dissing QVC and Top banana mis-spelling Qtx.

Correct, well observed - give your self a pat on the back

Point is QVC was incorrect with his post.

[qasdfdsaq]

Who is QVC anyway? If he doesn't exist how can he be incorrect?

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Top banana

There are 2 things you can guarantee on The Cable Forum - Arthur going on about the Conservatives and QVC dissing VM.

See, every time you make it personal by talking about me or insulting me, instead of just trying to argue your point. Pathetic. Sad sad man whose VM cheerleading skirt is getting dirty once again...

Originally Posted by Top banana

What he actually said was

"‘We have all the Sky channels, having just done a six-year deal with them. It gives us certainty and it gives them certainty to go out and buy programmes.

How can that be factually correct? He said VM have all the Sky channels and they don't. Sky Atlantic is one of Sky's main popular channels and VM don't have it.

Saying you have all the channels is factually incorrect, even if you say in the next sentence you have all the Sports channels. VM's Tom Mockbridge claimed VM had something they don't, as it sounds better when you are boasting/advertising.

With so many of Virgins adverts being banned for being misleading, maybe we will see Mr Mockbridge wheeled out for more advertising type interviews in newspapers like the mirror as they know the advertising standards can't get them over that if they supply misleading information there

Originally Posted by Qtx

See, every time you make it personal by talking about me or insulting me, instead of just trying to argue your point. Pathetic. Sad sad man whose VM cheerleading skirt is getting dirty once again...



How can that be factually correct? He said VM have all the Sky channels and they don't. Sky Atlantic is one of Sky's main popular channels and VM don't have it.

Saying you have all the channels is factually incorrect, even if you say in the next sentence you have all the Sports channels. VM's Tom Mockbridge claimed VM had something they don't, as it sounds better when you are boasting/advertising.

With so many of Virgins adverts being banned for being misleading, maybe we will see Mr Mockbridge wheeled out for more advertising type interviews in newspapers like the mirror as they know the advertising standards can't get them over that if they supply misleading information there

And once again, you hijack a thread trying tho discredit a business and their CEO, over a poor experience you have suffered from in the past.

VM isnt the same business any more, it has new owners a new CEO and 60 of the previous Directors have left. The world moves on .... I would suggest you do too as you are starting to look like you have a vendetta now and unable to take part in a debate based on what is currently happening at Virgin Media - part of The Liberty Global Group.

My notes are simply informing people of what the thinking is by Their CFO or their parent company - nothing more, nothing less.

If you want to make more of it, then that's your perogative but it does make you look rather foolish, when in other threads your posts tend to be imformative rather than distructive.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Why do people on here need to bicker so much?

The reality is that, however VM try to spin it, They can offer Sky's Premium Channels and the add on services. They can't offer the Sky exclusive channel that is Atlantic.

Originally Posted by Rob

Why do people on here need to bicker so much?

The reality is that, however VM try to spin it, They can offer Sky's Premium Channels and the add on services. They can't offer the Sky exclusive channel that is Atlantic.

Agree, there is no mention of Atlantic?

‘It’s all the sports channels, all the cinema channels, the services which put the channels on tablets and HD"

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Rob

Why do people on here need to bicker so much?

The reality is that, however VM try to spin it, They can offer Sky's Premium Channels and the add on services. They can't offer the Sky exclusive channel that is Atlantic.

The bickering from the varius virgin and sky lovers have ruined this forum.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Rob

Why do people on here need to bicker so much?

Do I need to make a complaint against his continued personal remarks and attacks in many threads? There are plenty of examples I can give. It is these that derail the thread in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Sirius

The bickering from the varius virgin and sky lovers have ruined this forum.

You over generalise. There are plenty of VM lovers here who attack those who say anything negative about them and it's the same people who tend to make the anti-sky threads. One of the vm cheerleader usual suspects is the one who started the bickering in this thread.

I see people happy with their Sky connections but no Sky 'lovers' in the same way as the Virgin groupies with the tendencies mentioned above. In fact I have seen no pro-sky comments in this thread at all so think your comment is wrong considering there are only Virgin lovers here

As for the topic again, it appears VM's CEO is talking to a lot of papers lately. Just free publicity that the advertising standards can't ban?

This is purely semantics here - the fact is, wording is key and saying "We have all the Sky channels", in one sentence, should be a strong indication to anyone reading this, that this means every channel, Sky has.

His later sentence, telling what actual channels form part of the deal, just adds ambiguity to the average reader. They are going to read his first sentence, come to his second and think, hold on, he just said above, we have all the Sky channels.

If he had said "We have nearly all the Sky channels", we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Do I need to make a complaint against his continued personal remarks and attacks in many threads? There are plenty of examples I can give. It is these that derail the thread in the first place.[COLOR="Silver"]

Do not post questions like this in any thread - If you want to ask a team member something - contact them via PM.

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Originally Posted by Sirius

The bickering from the varius virgin and sky lovers have ruined this forum.

Come on Sirius, you cannot be serious with that, Sky vs ntl/vm wars have been going on since nthw.com days.