Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009) - Page 104

KenK · 24-06-2009, 22:12

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Originally Posted by joff81

yea and all us on VM are still stuck with nothing to replace Setanta. this about sums up VM !!!!

Or maybe it sums up ESPN. Or maybe they're still haggling over the price. Or maybe they're working on a bigger, better deal for VM customers. Or maybe, ... well anything, really. Give it some time, wait to see what happens.

Arthurgray50@blu · 24-06-2009, 22:21

The way VM work is that 'there is technical problem' and it won't come onto our screens, until the day before the season starts, if no one else wants to say it, l will, we are always the last ones, to get anything new.

joff81 · 24-06-2009, 22:56

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Originally Posted by KenK

Or maybe it sums up ESPN. Or maybe they're still haggling over the price. Or maybe they're working on a bigger, better deal for VM customers. Or maybe, ... well anything, really. Give it some time, wait to see what happens.

so how come SKY, BT Vision and TUTV have managed to get everything sorted within 24 hours yet VM are "still in talks" ???
Sky have if for free on their news & events pack or for £1 per month extra

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...ents-pack.html

so why do VM think its ok to rip us off £10 per month ???

the truth is its nothing to do with ESPN is more like VM are too far up themselves to be realistic about paying for the rights.

Nook29 · 24-06-2009, 23:03

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Originally Posted by joff81

so how come SKY, BT Vision and TUTV have managed to get everything sorted within 24 hours yet VM are "still in talks" ???
Sky have if for free on their news & events pack or for £1 per month extra

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...ents-pack.html

so why do VM think its ok to rip us off £10 per month ???

the truth is its nothing to do with ESPN is more like VM are too far up themselves to be realistic about paying for the rights.

No point commenting on something you don't understand. Wait until an announcement.

KenK · 24-06-2009, 23:08

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Originally Posted by joff81

so how come SKY, BT Vision and TUTV have managed to get everything sorted within 24 hours yet VM are "still in talks" ???
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so why do VM think its ok to rip us off £10 per month ???

VM haven't announced anything yet, so how do you know they want to rip you off? At least wait until they say it's "coming soon" before getting too upset about it. And if you then don't like the price, don't pay it.

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Originally Posted by joff81

the truth is its nothing to do with ESPN is more like VM are too far up themselves to be realistic about paying for the rights.

24-06-2009, 23:27

I would love to know how much VM paid for Setanta Sports package, which entitled us to see it incorporated into the XL tv package for no extra cost, I wonder if they can pull off the same trick with ESPN

frogstamper · 24-06-2009, 23:54

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Originally Posted by mlayzell

I would love to know how much VM paid for Setanta Sports package, which entitled us to see it incorporated into the XL tv package for no extra cost, I wonder if they can pull off the same trick with ESPN

I doubt that VM payed Setanta very much at all, the plus in it for Setanta would have been the extra exposure and extra advertising revenue they could have charged.

Media Boy UK · 25-06-2009, 00:09

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Originally Posted by mlayzell

I would love to know how much VM paid for Setanta Sports package, which entitled us to see it incorporated into the XL tv package for no extra cost, I wonder if they can pull off the same trick with ESPN

I think it was about £3m per year.

I think the deal was £2.50 per viewer every month.

Also:

1. NASN/ESPN was not FREE for XL viewers - they had to pay extra for it.
2. Non XL got ESPN free if they order the Setanta Sports Pack.

So Virgin are just moving everyone into the ESPN XL Viewers deal until they can do an deal with ESPN then...

Horizon · 25-06-2009, 11:23

Details of the new ESPN channel should be released tomorrow along with the arrangements ESPN and Sky have put in place in regards to pricing and EPG position on satellite. VM is still in talks with ESPN with regards to whether Premiership content on the new channel will appear on VM - a 100% certainty I think.

Broadcast is reporting that Hallmark is to be replaced with the Universal Channel this year. NBC Universal will also rebrand its other channels Diva, Sci Fi and Movies 24 too. Details to be announced within the next two months.

Arthurgray50@blu · 25-06-2009, 16:21

The way you have to look at is, VM are now the only company too 'still in talks' when everyone else has it sorted.

As l said before, VM will wait till the last minute, before putting it on cable, as before they are way behind everyone else, and the worst thing is, they don't keep US informed.

Ben B · 25-06-2009, 16:30

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

they don't keep US informed.

I think they do want to keep us informed but just don't want to say anything until it is all finalised. I think the reason that they are taking so long is due to the fact that us customers had a good deal on the Setanta side of things and now that has gone they want to get us the best deal possible on the ESPN side of things. I don't think you should start criticising Virgin when you don't yet have a basis to criticise them on.

raybo62 · 25-06-2009, 16:49

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Originally Posted by Nook29

The point is that Virgin are getting HD channels, whether they're coming soon or not is not the point, they are getting them. It was your decision to choose VM over Sky, if you wanted HD so badly then Sky was clearly the way to go.

I love football and enjoy watching films, but I can live without HD. HD is a nice extra, I don't need it to enjoy the things I love.

no 1 forced u to have a hd box that was up to u wasnt it at least with the vmv+box u can record 2 channels while watching another

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can we get something right vm like to get everything right first before letting it loose on the general public there is a lot of testing and negotiating first and tell me somat when do sky have on demand services like vm and where is there 50mb broadband if u all want u can go to 8 or 16mb bbi and get sky hd in no ones stopping you

ncfc1902 · 25-06-2009, 16:52

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Originally Posted by joff81

Sky have if for free on their news & events pack or for £1 per month extra

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...ents-pack.html

so why do VM think its ok to rip us off £10 per month ???

ESPN are describing the deal with Sky as an "interim solution" so former subscribers to Setanta can continue to view ESPN America while they make permanent arrangements.
So it might not be in Sky's News and Events pack for long.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/...-distribution/

Media Boy UK · 25-06-2009, 18:21

Mr Berkett`s office has told someone over on DS Forums that

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We are in negotiation with ESPN

We will launch half a dozen (HD) Channels on August 1

Here is that post in full: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...&postcount=938

Info from Digital Spy Forums.

12noon · 25-06-2009, 18:39

Nice, so now we are back to working out what the six (half dozen) HD channels will be.