Serebii Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 From Digitalspy Sky's bouquet of basic TV channels including Sky1 and Sky News are to return to Virgin Media's digital cable service on November 13. The broadcasters have reached two separate agreements for the carriage of the Sky basics package on Virgin and Virgin Media Television's Living, Bravo, Trouble and Virgin1 bouquet on the Sky electronic programme guide. Full commercial terms were not disclosed but the agreements include annual carriage fees plus additional capped payments subject to performance-related targets. Both deals expire on June 12, 2011. The Sky basic channels will be spread across each tier of Virgin's cable TV service: Sky3, Sky News and Sky Sports News will be available in the lowest M tier; Sky1 and Sky2 will be available in the L tier; and Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 will join the XL tier. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a134623/sky1-sky-news-back-on-virgin-cable.html Took them long enough...shame there's now nothing ever good on it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice9 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Sky Sports news is back for me! Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Sorry guys, I completely missed the thread. Anyway, excellent news. Just in time for 24: Redemption and season 7, I don't have to buy the DVDs/resort to illegal measures to watch them now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serebii Posted November 4, 2008 Author Share Posted November 4, 2008 Only thing I'm gonna end up watching on it is new Lost, new Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe and new simpsons...the rest of the stuff it has on it is complete crap (I don't like 24, so sue me :P ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soag Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 This is the best news ever!!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Just had the full XL package installed today so this is a welcome surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokhed00 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Meh, can't say I've missed Sky really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkatronics Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Meh, can't say I've missed Sky really. I have, ii really have! :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog-amoto Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I've missed Sky One mainly because of the Simpsons though, so this is welcome news. I have the XL package too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 fantastic! when does gladiators start again. Shame because have lost interest in Lost since I lost Sky last time round. Guess they realised Virgin 1 couldn't really compete even though they did get some pretty good exclusives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokhed00 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Guess they realised Virgin 1 couldn't really compete even though they did get some pretty good exclusives. Bollocks, all Sky have is Lost, 24 and the Simpsons, none of which are unmissable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Bollocks, all Sky have is Lost, 24 and the Simpsons, none of which are unmissable. yeah but they still have big enough pull for a lot of people. I'm that bothered...like I said long lost interest in Lost, never watched 24 and Simpsons is old hat...gimme Sarah Connor Chronicles any day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serebii Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 yeah but they still have big enough pull for a lot of people. I'm that bothered...like I said long lost interest in Lost, never watched 24 and Simpsons is old hat...gimme Sarah Connor Chronicles any day! Really? Season 4 of Lost was awesome and Season 5 looks to be even more awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Really? Season 4 of Lost was awesome and Season 5 looks to be even more awesome yeah but when virgin lost Sky One it was only a season 2 or something and never watched it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog-amoto Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Maybe Virgin will be cheeky and put it on On Demand! doubtful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokhed00 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Maybe Virgin will be cheeky and put it on On Demand! doubtful! Pretty sure there was mention of them doing that ages ago anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serebii Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 They had Seasons 1 to 3 up on demand for most of this year, that was when and how I got into it Dunno about Season 4 though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.dakota Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Whats really interesting about this is that the new agreement for carriage is similar to the original price- which pretty much proves that Sky were unhappy with having a sizable competitor and simply threw their dummy out of the pram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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