Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
14-07-2019, 16:27
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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anything about sky UHD
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All infomation we have is now online.
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14-07-2019, 16:31
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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Oh dear two optimistic predictions and both badly wrong...
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14-07-2019, 16:38
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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What "two optimistic predictions" are you on about - do tell.
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14-07-2019, 16:41
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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What "two optimistic predictions" are you on about - do tell.
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I think he's implying at least one poster has been optimistic about Sky Atlantic and Sky's UHD content being in any negotiated deal this year.
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14-07-2019, 16:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
To be taken with a large pinch of salt? The source can't be very strong if the information was may change. How accurate will they know what contract stands between VM and Sky if all the information they have is some channels are/are not being rebranded?
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14-07-2019, 16:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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What "two optimistic predictions" are you on about - do tell.
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Nothing to do with you MB.
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14-07-2019, 16:47
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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To be taken with a large pinch of salt? The source can't be very strong if the information was may change. How accurate will they know what contract stands between VM and Sky if all the information they have is some channels are/are not being rebranded?
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14-07-2019, 16:49
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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When its exclusive information? It's not very exclusive if it may or may not be happening. In fact isn't that just a guess?
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14-07-2019, 17:07
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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When its exclusive information? It's not very exclusive if it may or may not be happening. In fact isn't that just a guess?
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It certainly reads more like a guess than a credible rumour.
This late in the day Sky may just come back with UHD and Atlantic on the table despite the fact they've known this negotiation was due for months, and to be honest those are the most valuable/most contentious elements of any proposed deal???
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14-07-2019, 17:21
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
I don't think the USA Network or the NBC Sports parts will happen. The latter because there is no point in introducing another brand when you you own the UK market leader in Pay Sports. And I've not seen the USA Network name mentioned in even the US news stuff I look at for quite some time, their shows don't get mentioned these days, let alone in the UK where I've not seen their name since the early days of Channel 5 on the end of shows they bought back then.
It costs money to introduce new brands and most media companies are consolidating around just a few brands these days. I just don't see it.
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14-07-2019, 17:29
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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I don't think the USA Network or the NBC Sports parts will happen. The latter because there is no point in introducing another brand when you you own the UK market leader in Pay Sports. And I've not seen the USA Network name mentioned in even the US news stuff I look at for quite some time, their shows don't get mentioned these days, let alone in the UK where I've not seen their name since the early days of Channel 5 on the end of shows they bought back then.
It costs money to introduce new brands and most media companies are consolidating around just a few brands these days. I just don't see it.
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Aye unless they're going to dip their toes into the british sport market? A bit like why why BT still have the ESPN channel. Do NBC Sports have any rights for sports which the UK doesn't have which they can show in the UK under their current deals?
I've never really understood why sport rights are split up so much. Back in the days of eurosport it was the same sport channel in most of europe showing the same shows. Now i know we've moved back from there with sports wanting more money etc but it feels in this instance we've gone back in the last 30 years for uniting sports rights.
Could NBC be trying to do this with a combined channel which shows the same coverage in both the UK and USA at the same time? Is it even possible?
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14-07-2019, 17:39
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NBC are also owned by Comcast, so yes, they're heavily in the UK sports market as it is. You're right though there's no need to bring more brands into the equation.
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14-07-2019, 20:39
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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So much for someone saying it was a cert to come to Virgin Media this year.
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No-one said it was a cert, Den, but Sky's own press release did kind of indicate that it was coming.
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14-07-2019, 20:42
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
I'm struggling to believe much of that , why would Comcast want another Sports brand when it already has Sky Sports.
And why rebrand Universal channel to USA Network not really getting that.
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14-07-2019, 20:45
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2019)
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No-one said it was a cert, Den, but Sky's own press release did kind of indicate that it was coming.
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I don't know how many times I have to repeat that it absolutely didn't.
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