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[Stop It]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It's a funny old world where a company has to justify why it charges less than its competitors!

That's exactly what I was thinking. Surely the ones charging more should be doing the explaining, otherwise this shows that Premier Sports are basically asking for cartel pricing?

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by Stop It

That's exactly what I was thinking. Surely the ones charging more should be doing the explaining, otherwise this shows that Premier Sports are basically asking for cartel pricing?

Maybe when contracts are signed there`s an agreementb saying there`s a minimum charge?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

Maybe when contracts are signed there`s an agreementb saying there`s a minimum charge?

That would be illegal (retail price maintenance). Presumably Virgin can get away with covering its costs as it sells other services to customers whilst Premier Sports has to make money on each sale so can't as it's a one-product company.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It's a funny old world where a company has to justify why it charges less than its competitors!

It totally agree, it sounds like an inverse version of Watchdog! I did think it a strange comment for Premier Sports to make for it must be in its interests for Virgin to charge less as it increases subscription numbers and presumably Premier Sports still get the same amount per subscriber.

[Superblade7]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

So from 1 September assuming no VM increase it will be:
£7.99pm Virgin Media
£9.99pm Premier Player on www.premiersports.tv
£11.99pm Sky platform sold by Premier Sports

What does Premier Sports say about VM being cheapest?
On Premier Sports' Facebook page 6 August:
Tina Lamb: Please can you tell me why Virgin subscribers only pay £7.99 a month and yet Sky subscribers pay £9.99 a month?? Surely we are both getting the same package.
Premier Sports: That is a good question and we recently asked the CEO of Virgin channels to explain this. Still to hear! But we will keep you posted.

Didn't Premier Sports initially want to launch on VM as part of the XL TV pack? Obviously they would have stood to make much more revenue from a wholesale deal than as a standalone but VM weren't interested. I think it's safe to say that it's quite a niche channel and would imagine subscriber numbers are relatively low across all platforms so VM probably charge a lower price to try encourage subscriber take up.

Plus didn't it only arrive on VM just in time for the Rugby World Cup last year due to the outcry from Rugby fans?

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Superblade7

Didn't Premier Sports initially want to launch on VM as part of the XL TV pack? Obviously they would have stood to make much more revenue from a wholesale deal than as a standalone but VM weren't interested. I think it's safe to say that it's quite a niche channel and would imagine subscriber numbers are relatively low across all platforms so VM probably charge a lower price to try encourage subscriber take up.

Plus didn't it only arrive on VM just in time for the Rugby World Cup last year due to the outcry from Rugby fans?

1) Yes.
2) Yes about an day before RWC - Not just fans but an English MP.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-media-to.html

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...l-premier.html

[Superblade7]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

1) Yes.
2) Yes about an day before RWC - Not just fans but an English MP.

Cheers MB. So potentially it might never have arrived on VM had it not been for them obtaing the RWC rights. Be funny to see the discussion between their CEO and VM's if that Facebook article is true, maybe something like:

PS CEO: Will you charge more for PS on VM?
VM CEO: No
PS CEO: Please
VM CEO: No
PS CEO: Ok

[telegramsam]

Is sky spsorts free this weekend to all Virgin media customers?

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

Is sky spsorts free this weekend to all Virgin media customers?

yes just Saturday though

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

Is sky spsorts free this weekend to all Virgin media customers?

Yes all the SD and HD channels will be free from 6am tomorrow to 6am Sunday

[vincerooney]

Haha premier sports are basically saying on the internet they want to charge MORE for their channels???

Surely they should be saying "We're going to get in touch with sky and find out why theyre charging so much more as we want to help our loyal customers..." rather than we're writing to get virgin media charge more so you lot can suffer

Companies these days!

[Gavin-D]

BoxNation and Premier Sports to join TalkTalk TV line-up from August 22nd

BoxNation will be available for £12 per month

No price for Premier Sports yet

http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/new...lk_tv_line_up/

[stuwolves]

Anyone know what that little heart in the bottom right of all the skysports channels is all about?

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by stuwolves

Anyone know what that little heart in the bottom right of all the skysports channels is all about?

If it looks like this



Then its vm's replacement for the numbers which appeared in the top right

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Haha premier sports are basically saying on the internet they want to charge MORE for their channels???

Surely they should be saying "We're going to get in touch with sky and find out why theyre charging so much more as we want to help our loyal customers..." rather than we're writing to get virgin media charge more so you lot can suffer

Companies these days!

The funny thing is that the price on the Sky platform is set by Premier Sports itself as Premier sells the channel directly, Sky just sells Premier Sports encryption and the EPG.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The funny thing is that the price on the Sky platform is set by Premier Sports itself as Premier sells the channel directly, Sky just sells Premier Sports encryption and the EPG.

Interesting news Premier Sports and Boxnation are to join Talk Talk TV.