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m419 · 13-05-2008, 16:59

Thats so right!

However, Virgin Media and its customers don't have to have Sky sports, they could use in-house services such as Setanta ect...

Only reason why Virgin Media kept Sky sports is because there is a medium sized demand for it. Same with Sky movies,however, if Virgin introduced movie channels offering on demand features too for half the price of Sky Movies, then there would be no need for Sky Movies.

However, since Sky1 and Sky news has lost around 4Million potential viewers or 5 million if you include Freeview and Topuptv, advertisers will soon find that its no longer worth advertising on such channels and revenue will drop. Furthermore, the other Sky channels show far too many repeats too such as Sky Real Lives, its shows repeats from ITV's schedule from 2001, and even worse, they have been aired on ITV2 several times too!

But if a viewer survey was to go out to all digital viewers on all networks incl Sky,Tiscali,Wight cable,Smallworld and Freeview, I wonder which channels would be most popular? Virgin's or Sky's.

With Virgin's channels,there is a lot to look forward too:

Greys Anatomy
Most Haunted
Maury
Jerry Springer
Steve Wilko's
Americas Next top model
Britains Next top model
So you think you can dance
6th sense colin fry
The Fix
The Riches
Terminator
Street Crime
Desmonds
Queer eye for the straight guy
Startrek

And many many more

And Sky...........

Lost
Simpsons which you can get on Channel 4
Filth Files
Airline From ITV 2001

And a few more worthless things.

13-05-2008, 16:59	#448
m419 cf.addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Services: Virgin XL TV,Virgin 2MB Broadband,Virgin Talk Anywhere 400 landline and Virgin Mobile Daily Bonus Ta Posts: 310	Re: Virgin Media News Thats so right! However, Virgin Media and its customers don't have to have Sky sports, they could use in-house services such as Setanta ect... Only reason why Virgin Media kept Sky sports is because there is a medium sized demand for it. Same with Sky movies,however, if Virgin introduced movie channels offering on demand features too for half the price of Sky Movies, then there would be no need for Sky Movies. However, since Sky1 and Sky news has lost around 4Million potential viewers or 5 million if you include Freeview and Topuptv, advertisers will soon find that its no longer worth advertising on such channels and revenue will drop. Furthermore, the other Sky channels show far too many repeats too such as Sky Real Lives, its shows repeats from ITV's schedule from 2001, and even worse, they have been aired on ITV2 several times too! But if a viewer survey was to go out to all digital viewers on all networks incl Sky,Tiscali,Wight cable,Smallworld and Freeview, I wonder which channels would be most popular? Virgin's or Sky's. With Virgin's channels,there is a lot to look forward too: Greys Anatomy Most Haunted Maury Jerry Springer Steve Wilko's Americas Next top model Britains Next top model So you think you can dance 6th sense colin fry The Fix The Riches Terminator Street Crime Desmonds Queer eye for the straight guy Startrek And many many more And Sky........... Lost Simpsons which you can get on Channel 4 Filth Files Airline From ITV 2001 And a few more worthless things.