Virgin Media to lose Sky channels

[T & P]

They now have there respective statements out:

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/fairplay/index.html

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/home/article?contentid=646110

This could get messy but from what I can see on many boards most people will prefer to stay with Virgin rather than support the bullying Murdoch.

The Sky statement is a joke and little more than one long plug for itself. No actual mention of the reasons behind the price demands made to Virgin media.

Though we all know why Sky's done it.

I can only hope when the next contract for Premiership rights come up Virgin snatches the contract and people start deserting the Murdoch network in their droves.

To be honest it's not Virgin I'm concerned for... it's the BBC. That fat cunt won't stop until the corporation is destroyed, sold off or commercialised. The bigger his slice of the TV market gets, the more danger the BBC is in.

 

[nino_savatte]

I wouldn't miss Sky 1 (or 2) as there's fuck all on them.

 

[mhwfc]

Episodes of 24 are only about 41 minutes long - what do they do with the extra time if they're only allowed 12 minutes of ads? (Not got Sky one)

Every episode of 24 has 4 breaks for ads (where the clock comes up in the middle of the screen), yet Sly One take 3 ad breaks an hour and still manage to go to an ad break in the middle of a scene at least once every episode. It really buggers up a series with a real time premise

 

[TAE]

Or Lost .....

That's the one series that won't be ... erm ... lost.

virgin snaps up 'Lost' rights

Also West Wing, CSI, The OC, Nip/Tuck will be available:

full virgins statement on sky




Another thing I noticed (from the full statement):

This follows a largely-overlooked press statement by Sky on February 8th announcing plans to remove a number of free channels from the Freeview platform, depriving over 7 million Freeview viewers access to those channels. Sky indicated that it intends to use these Freeview slots to offer four subscription channels on terms that have not yet been announced.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Iam fucked off with the consumer getting a slap yet again over the fat cats and their fucking pennies!!

was so glad ntl were taken over, got my year long nightmare sorted and given a £100 good will credit for all the shit i had endured..

And now this.....gRRRRRR

 

[TAE]

One thing I am pissed off about is that I have had no direct communication from Virgin about the fact that I'm about to loose a bunch of channels which are part of a package I specifically pay for in order to be able to watch Sky 1.

 

[T & P]

To be fair this has happened quite suddenly and recently and I guess Virgin was waiting until the last minute to see if anything could be salvaged.

I actually have just signed up to Virgin Media in solidarity. Fucking Dirty Digger dirty tricking cunt

 

[nino_savatte]

Presumably Virgin won't reduce the price due to the loss of a few Sky channels.

 

[J77]

In an evil way, I sniggered this morning when I heard that both Lost and 24 where being cut midway through their series

 

[DexterTCN]

I only watched BattleStar and the occasional new Simpsons.

To be honest I'd rather wait for the BSG DVD release, that's how I got the first 2 series.

I'm furious at Sky for doing this, but I'm backing Virgin all the way. I can appreciate that others may feel differently though.

I'm sick of that bastard Murdoch.

/wanders off to Punch Gallery. link

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The nature of these negotiations leads us to believe that this outcome has been deliberately engineered by Sky in order to suppress competition and coerce Virgin Media's customers into switching to its service by denying them access to the basic channels.

Yep, pretty much agree with all that. Murdoch sees Virgins buying of NTL Telewest as the serious threat it is to Skys plans (anyone remember the bollox about Sky buying 19% stake in ITV?). I'm not convinced taking Bransons side is anything other than the lesser of two evils however...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Whoevers figures you believe it looks like Sky are going to be the ones taking a hit. Loosing viewers and advertising revenue. They are making a grab for Virgins customers, and its pretty obvious they wanted to take the channels off Virgin. Most of this is a PR battle. I rekon Sky will be back on Virgin in six months.

 

[wishface]

Now might be a good time for some people to learn about usenet/bit torrent.

Then you can all wave your willies or titties in Murdochs face and say "Fuck You - you media mogul cunt".

where can i download stuff on usenet and torrents?
Every torrent site ive tried before is full of porn spam and shit download speeds (worse than dialup) - assuming they have anything i actually want.
Ive tried IRC but the servers are queued up till christmass. In the end that leaves alluc and sites like that, but the quality is awful.

EDIT: im going to start a thread with this.

 

[Mapped]

Cool, I can live without Sky.

At least someone is standing up to Murdoch, fuck 'im!

I'm looking forward to my new shiny new V+ box next week

Same as. I called them up earlier and got a great deal. I now get free sky movies, a V+ box and also get to keep the old box for the bedroom for a couple of quid less than I was paying before .

I think they are trying hard to keep thier customers so if you are with Virgin and want a better deal give cancellations a ring and see what you can get.

ETA: if you are going to do this use this number 0800 073 0591. As you can expect they are a tad busy at the moment so you get kept waiting for ages.

 

[mhwfc]

Old Sky Sports Snooze: Through The Night

Nice to see someone at Virgin with a sense of humour


http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/skySportsSnooze.jpg

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/skyNewsRenamed.jpg

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/sky2Renamed.jpg

 

[DexterTCN]

Links don't work

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Fucking arseholes

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Does that mean sky will be pulling living, sci-fi channel etc etc???

 

[Sweaty Betty]

freeview it is then...........

 

[diond]

freeview it is then...........

.........Until the summer

 

[mhwfc]

Links don't work

They should now

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/sky2Renamed.jpg

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/skyNewsRenamed.jpg

http://www.spapps.co.uk/img/Sky_VM_Battle/skySportsSnooze.jpg

 

[Ozric]

Woo hoo, got my shiny new V+ box and as a bonus it's now Murdoch free!!!!

 

[Iam]

Virgin Media to lose this customer.

 

[Dask]

I can't believe people actually care about Sky One or Sky News.

shocking!

 

[Iam]

I don't, particularly.

I care about paying *twice* as much as I need to for a shit service, and being told "we have no intention of changing our pricing structure in the forseeable future". There's been a marked disruption in TV picture quality this week, as well as a definite slowing of broadband.

Can get a better deal (with Sky as the TV package) elsewhere, I'd be daft not to change.

This idea that Branson is somehow better than Murdoch is fucking bunk, too.

 

[Dask]

There's been a marked disruption in TV picture quality this week, as well as a definite slowing of broadband.

Really? I haven't read anything about this on Digital Spy or Digital Worldz.

I'd like to know if that is the case. What has happened to your picture?

 

[Reno]

I can't believe people actually care about Sky One or Sky News.

shocking!

24

 

[Iam]

Really? I haven't read anything about this on Digital Spy or Digital Worldz.

I'd like to know if that is the case. What has happened to your picture?

I wouldn't put it past being the box, tbh (we're on our 4th in about a year), but I don't watch enough for it to really affect me.

However, it's been freezing, jumping, and pixelating all week. The broadband is ok really, but seems a bit more sluggish. I'm using it more during the day this week than recently, and it's not what I've been expecting. There's a local support ticket open for that, but no fault apparently...

Ho humm.

 

[Dask]

24

I find watching 24 on Sky is awful, I can't stand the ad breaks. they do me in.

DVD/Downloads is the only way.

Shame that the BBC lost the rights to it.

 

[Dask]

I wouldn't put it past being the box, tbh (we're on our 4th in about a year), but I don't watch enough for it to really affect me.

However, it's been freezing, jumping, and pixelating all week. The broadband is ok really, but seems a bit more sluggish. I'm using it more during the day this week than recently, and it's not what I've been expecting. There's a local support ticket open for that, but no fault apparently...

Ho humm.

Sounds like the Box more than the signal itself, but who knows.

Worrying if they are lowering the bandwidth of the TV service.