Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Old 04-07-2009, 18:56   #1624
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu View Post
I spoke to Sky about this, possible charge at the end of an experiment, and they advised me that they will keep an eye on the position, it will be free at the moment, and it largely depend on wether ESPN do offer another channel to take the football. But l cannt see that happening, as the amount of football will be shown, would be the same as Setanta, it would depend on ESPN, doing a Setanta and offering Sports News channel.

My only arguement is, why the hell something isn't being done by VM to getting ESPN America or Classic channels on free as a taster for customers, If you look at the channels, they do supply some great sport, and l am sure customers would love it, but there agian do VM care about customers - no, Media Boy has said they could start from August, strange that is when the season starts.
ESPN have already said they will be launching another channel which will show the football. So why can't you see it happening? How would it depend on them doing a news channel? I'm really not seeing the logic that brings you to that conclusion at all?

Your only argument is "why aren't VM giving away a channel they have to pay a per-subscriber rate to for free"? If they added ESPN America or Classic to the XL pack for example, even for a limited time, they'd have to pay ESPN a fortune, they'd need to renegotiate the contract to beable to do it at a commercial viable expense. And we all know how long it takes to negotiate carriage contracts.
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