Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
05-07-2016, 18:29
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Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
In the thread about the BBC 4K channel, it was mentioned that the Government intends to scrap the 'Must carry' law that requires cable companies to carry designated channels.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...next-year.html
There has now been some news about this in the media:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...nsmission-fees
ITV are the first to talk about charging Virgin Media* 121 million pounds in retransmission fees.
*ie us!
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05-07-2016, 18:34
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
Now that would not go down well if it goes through as the costs would definitely be passed on to us customers.
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05-07-2016, 19:41
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
Absolute joke in my opinion , if ITV wants to charge VM retransmission fees then in my opinion VM should no longer be made to give ITV the very attractive slot it occupies on its TV Guide.
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05-07-2016, 19:55
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
I thought LG had a 10% stake in ITV. Is that still the case?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...r-virgin-media
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05-07-2016, 20:01
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
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Yes.
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06-07-2016, 08:41
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
Well I don't see why I need to pay more to see endless repeats which is most of ITV's output these days. I can watch Midsomers across 4 or 5 hours a day thanks to the +one channels.
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06-07-2016, 09:41
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well I don't see why I need to pay more to see endless repeats which is most of ITV's output these days. I can watch Midsomers across 4 or 5 hours a day thanks to the +one channels.
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I agree with you
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06-07-2016, 14:07
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
Can VM add it as a paid addon channel and only pay ITV and Channel 4 for the people who subscribe to the channel rather than switching over the Freeview to watch it for free?
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06-07-2016, 17:28
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
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Originally Posted by toady
Can VM add it as a paid addon channel and only pay ITV and Channel 4 for the people who subscribe to the channel rather than switching over the Freeview to watch it for free?
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That's what I was thinking! That would shut them up😝
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06-07-2016, 19:24
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
I've never understood why cable companies haven't added a sidecar to their boxes that can utilise terrestrial signals (possibly satellite too) for those able to receive them.
Sky do this in another country (both appear in the EPG) and were set to do it in the UK before ITV agreed to join their platform.
BT, Talk Talk & YouView do this with Freeview, it saves on negotiating and paying for any carriage costs as well as not using any bandwidth.
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06-07-2016, 22:43
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
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I've never understood why cable companies haven't added a sidecar to their boxes that can utilise terrestrial signals (possibly satellite too) for those able to receive them.
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Because the cable channels would still be required for those unable to receive terrestrial? It makes sense for BT etc because it saves them bandwidth, but on cable the bandwidth is already paid for so there is nothing to "save".
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06-07-2016, 23:53
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
True.
An integrated cable, Freeview and satellite box would be useful though, but I guess cable companies wouldn't want to draw attention to the other platforms.
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07-07-2016, 01:22
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
Never really understood how that works, and if they are distributed via Freeview anyway - come to think of it, who pays for Freeview & Freesat?
Wasn't sure if VM paid for channels, or if channels paid to be on VM - I thought that channels had to pay to be on the "Free TV" level?
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07-07-2016, 09:48
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Re: Repealing 'Must carry' law could push up VM bills.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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That information seems to be contradicted by this report advising it is not going to happen. It's all very confusing! 
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...-retrans-fees/
Last edited by 1andrew1; 07-07-2016 at 10:08.
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