chiefdave wrote:
nodrogd wrote:
all others are subject to confidential commercial agreements.I appreciate details of individual deals won't be available but ballpark figures? We're talking about existing channels here so there is already playout in place. So you're looking at the uplink to VM and the EPG cost.
You can get a FTA EPG slot on Sky for £35K, can't imagine VM would be anywhere near that as all channels require a subscription so its to their benefit to add channels.
Given the owners of a channel like Spike and the money they are already paying for the channel I can't see it being an issue on their side. VM routinely seem very slow to pick up new channels.
You also have to take in to account that a channel owner, even one on Freeview, may want a cut of the subs which could determine in which TV pack the channel is placed. Just because it is on Freeview does not mean that the channel owner wants it to go in to the M pack.