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BSkyB: “Real possibility of no agreement” in Virgin dispute

February 26, 2007 10.04 Europe/London By Julian Clover

BSkyB has issued a robust defence of its negotiations with Virgin Media over the carriage of channels on Virgin Media.

“Despite the constructive approach adopted by Sky throughout these negotiations, the recent behaviour of Virgin Media appears at odds with a genuine desire to conclude a commercial agreement and at this time there exists the real possibility that agreement will not be reached before expiry of the current contract at midnight on 28th February, 2007,” said BSkyB in a statement issued to the London Stock Exchange.

BSkyB, is perhaps uncharacteristically, painting itself as the reasonable guy in the dispute. The British Jeremy Darroch has been used in broadcast interviews as opposed to Virgin Media’s CEO Steve Burch. BSkyB says that unlike Virgin Media, it operates an open platform, and the only way that Sky’s basic channels would become unavailable would be if Virgin refused to carry them.

Darroch said that BSkyB has increased the investment in the channels and was offering Virgin more channels than ever before including Sky Three, Sky Arts and HD services. “We have invested in developing our channel offering and sought a fair price which reflects that fact. With three days still to go before the deadline, we hope that Virgin Media will focus on getting a deal done rather than on their PR offensive.”

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Filed Under: Cable, Newsline Edited: 26 February 2007 13:09

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About Julian Clover

Julian Clover is a Media and Technology journalist based in Cambridge, UK. He works in online and printed media. Julian is also a voice on local radio. You can talk to Julian on Twitter @julianclover, on Facebook or by email at jclover@broadbandtvnews.com.

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  1. Bill Johnson says

    26 February 2007 at 14:07

    Good for Virgin’s Steve Burch. BSKYB has enjoyed their monopoly of providing programming for too long and hopefully Virgin will now have the numbers to put together a reasonably coompetitive alternative source of programming. The sooner they can get to the stage of VOD and eliminate the nonsensical channels sky provides, the better.

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