Sky taking channels from virgin media

[Papershop]

How about you dont say anything leerm, cos what you do manage to say, is a pile of crap anyways

Telewest are protecting thier customers from price hikes, unlike sky, who will probably up the cost, now that telewest isnt funding them any money.

[Papershop]

on a 4 gb HDD with less thn 200 mb free......

well with that £18 you are planning to pay to move to sky, buy yourself a harddrive

[beer]

id rather have sky thanks. plus theres a lot more channels i want that we dont currently have on virgin media. cool.

[FlyingJesus]

tbh the only thing i watch is hollyoaks on c4

[beer]

lol i watch allsorts. n i want that new discovery turbo channel. i love things with engines.

[:Hazel]

i didnt realise to a little while ago. that really peed me off, now i'll miss alot of programmes i liked :@

[beer]

£18 to switch to sky hazel :]

[:Hazel]

£18 to switch to sky hazel :]

hmmm... i'll see. its jst annoying that these big companies with billions have to squabble.. silly people

[beer]

hmm i emailed sky and got this reply:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about this.

Unfortunately, Sky One, Sky Sports News, Sky Travel and Sky News are no
longer available for Virgin Media customers to view.

Virgin Media has withdrawn Sky's basic channels from their television
customers following the expiry of the agreement between the two companies.
This was their decision. As a "closed network" only they can decide what to
offer their customers. Up to the final hours we tried time and again to
reach a solution, including proposing a way for Sky to retail channels
directly to cable customers in a way that would cost Virgin media nothing.

Sky knows that its basic channels have many loyal cable viewers and our aim
has been to avoid any disruption to their enjoyment of our programmes. We
are disappointed that we will now be denied access to cable TV homes.

If I may also take this opportunity to explain that we have made repeated
efforts to reach an agreement, but Virgin Media has rejected all of our
proposals, including our latest offer of just 3p per customer per day.

We're committed to bringing you great shows like brand new Simpsons, Lost,
24, Nip/Tuck and Battlestar Galactica. In fact we've increased our
investment in channels and programmes by 68% in recent years.

If Virgin Media decide that it wants to bring back the TV that its customers
enjoy, we are available for talks.

Thanks again for contacting us.

Yours sincerely,

Sky Viewer Relations Team

[Judge Judy]

Richard Branson isn't having a good week. First a rail crash then this.