Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by gadge

As i see it espn have deep never ending pockets.

Too true I think that with all that is going on the Competition commission, The EU in to sports and the phone tapping i think that i could be the best time for espn to do this ( to put the final nails in the coffin )

[Media Boy UK]

Has everyone forgot?

Spoiler: 

Virgin Media is FOUR years old today.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Has everyone forgot?

Spoiler: 

Virgin Media is FOUR years old today.

The party hasn't stopped here at VM

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Has everyone forgot?

Spoiler: 

Virgin Media is FOUR years old today.

[sakiblateef]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

An insider confrim to me that the Asian channels on Virgin Media is being ''look at again''.

But I was not given any channel names.

Improvements to the Asian offering on the VM platform is way overdue, I'm glad VM are looking into it at last.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Has everyone forgot?

Spoiler: 

Virgin Media is FOUR years old today.

Happy Birthday!!!

New logos for '5' channels.

FIVE becomes Channel 5 on 14th February.
FIVE USA becomes 5 USA and FIVER becomes 5* on 7th March.

[brooza]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

FIVER becomes F* on 7th March.

5*, I assume you meant

Originally Posted by brooza

5*, I assume you meant

Fixed thanks. I was too used to the "not a brand" FIVE.

[12noon]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

FIVER becomes 5* on 7th March.

Oh no not 5 Star again. I thought that Jackson's rip-off pop group had gone for good.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by ahardie

It's good to see something might be done about this. Perhaps they could now turn their attention to Sky's linear channel platform. It has all got to be good for the consumer.

I agree. As I've said before, if Sky want exclusive rights to programmes on its TV channels, it should be prepared to make those channels available at a wholesale price to other platforms. If they are abusing their privileged position, they should not be allowed to get exclusive rights.

---------- Post added at 20:53 ---------- Previous post was at 20:47 ----------

Originally Posted by gadge

As i see it espn have deep never ending pockets.

I wonder how deep? Do you think they will give Sky a run for their money with the Premier Football contracts next time around?

[howardmicks]

I am not a big sky fan,But sky are willing to invest in programs for there channels it is only natural they want to recover some of there cost not only from there own subscribers but from selling there channels to other tv providers.Vm decided to pull out of the channels and program market by selling there channels so what do they expect,If there not willing to invest in programs why should they expect to get them from sky for next to nothing.They should have thought about all this before they sold the channels especially to sky.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

I am not a big sky fan,But sky are willing to invest in programs for there channels it is only natural they want to recover some of there cost not only from there own subscribers but from selling there channels to other tv providers.Vm decided to pull out of the channels and program market by selling there channels so what do they expect,If there not willing to invest in programs why should they expect to get them from sky for next to nothing.They should have thought about all this before they sold the channels especially to sky.

but we don't know how much Sky are asking. Much better that VM get it at the fair price, afterall it's a niche channel as I've said all along and the viewing figures are embarrassing for Sky.

VM did the right thing

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

but we don't know how much Sky are asking. Much better that VM get it at the fair price, afterall it's a niche channel as I've said all along and the viewing figures are embarrassing for Sky.

VM did the right thing

I agree apart from a few new series the rest of the stuff on Sky Atlantic is just old programming used as filling. It would have been nice to see some of these new series, but what you have not seen you cannot miss.

[mersey70]

[QUOTE=Digital Fanatic;35171170]but we don't know how much Sky are asking. Much better that VM get it at the fair price, afterall it's a niche channel as I've said all along and the viewing figures are embarrassing for Sky.

VM did the right thing [/QUOTE

In your opinion.

I still cannot see any viewing figures for Sky Atlantic on the Barb website although I too fully expect them to be low when they appear.

But do Sky launch these channels to obtain massive audiences? Reading Jeremy Darroch's comments they seem to do it to differentiate themselves from their competition and it seems to work. Nevertheless it's available in 10m homes. It's part of a wider package of PAY channels. Sky's ad income makes up only about 6% of their total income. However their targetted audience for Atlantic is not that of say Sky Living or Sky 1, they are aiming at a far higher demographic and advertisers will pay accordingly even for relatively low audiences. That's why UKTV's Good Food is so successful, the audience are a far higher demographic than say ITV1, Nigella followers if you like, the sort who shop at Waitrose rather than Tesco! Not huge but lucrative all the same.

Sky know full well if they show a list of channels and point out they have Channel X and competitor Y dosen't most Joe Bloggs subscribers will go with them. It's human nature.

Take a look at their latest subscriber numbers, they simply do not lie. All Sky care about is how many people subscribe to a particular PACK. Have you seen Sky Arts ratings?, very low but Sky know that's another group of customers they can hook into a PACK of channels, do the ratings really justify 2 HD versions? Sky clearly think so. Why do the operate Sky News which loses money hand over fist? Maybe because it's part of the overall package.

But that's all just my opinion.