Virgin Media sells UKTV stake to Scripps for £339m

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by gcampbell

Ofcom were able to order Sky to drop their sports price and reported Sky to the competition commission re movies, why not regarding TV content?

How you do define Sky having market share over TV content?

Sports? Yeah. Movies? Yeah. TV content?

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Originally Posted by denphone

You are probably right MM but if it was me l would have never sold the channels to Sky or done this deal but there again what do l know.

Without the sale of VMTV, VM wouldn't have any Sky HD channels, Sky VOD content or I suspect, Sky Sports Red button.

[Chad]

Looks like a good deal for Virgin.

If this means more HD channels, and more on demand content, then I'm a pretty happy customer.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Chad

Looks like a good deal for Virgin.

If this means more HD channels, and more on demand content, then I'm a pretty happy customer.

The deal has nothing to do with content. The new HD channels were coming anyway.

Originally Posted by denphone

But we do not know whether it is Sky's fault or Virgin's fault do we

Denphone i read an article through a link on here in which a top sky executive stated "sky atlantic will not appear on virgin nedia anytime soon"

They wanted a period of exclusivity for their own subs as they advertised it as added for free,so although they offered it i suspect it was offered at a price virgin could and indeed should have refused.

Once it goes into skys paid for packs they may be more willing to negotiate methinks.

[m419]

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

Originally Posted by m419

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

Interesting marketing ploy for sure personally i doubt wether the talk unlimited price would fund all the XL tv content on its own,but if the deal was take talk unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband and get TV XL for free then that would sound very realistic to me.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by m419

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

They wanna try getting there lower speeds working properly first , and sorting the Superhub out.

Originally Posted by m419

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

Seems too much too give away free. I'd say increasing the loyalty discount by X amount per year would be sensible, up to a point of course. It would give incentive for people to stay and would essentially negate price rises that new(er) customers would receive.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by m419

I think the XL TV package should be free for those who take Talk Unlimited and either 50MB or 100MB Broadband.

No other company will be able to offer that internet speed combined with that amount of TV channels at no extra cost including HD channels, the only fees these particular customers should pay is the Tivo fee,multiroom fee,pay-per-view movies,pay-per-view events and premium channels.

A fine idea apart from that this kind of package would struggle to make Virgin a reasonable profit.

The 100Mb tier is quite subsidised enough in terms of the load on the network the customers using it create without throwing loads of paid for TV, as in VM pay for each customer receiving it, for free at them.

[denphone]

Scripps Networks Interactive and Virgin Media Complete UKTV Transaction

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scr...ion-2011-10-03