Virgin Media

There are two faults with your arguement:
TV companies are there to make money. It is irrelevent which country the company is based in. Basically Five is owned by a German company (RTL), but they have still tried to improve the channel for the UK audience because it's in their interest to do so.
Multi-national companies are the way the world has been going for a while. They aren't owned by a single person - that's why they have thousands of shareholders. Are you branding all share-holders "greedy people"?

Last week
24 - 529,000
Lost - 848,000

This week
24 - 354,000
Lost - 752,000

24 lost 175,000 viewers.

Lost lost 96,000 viewers.

They way Rupert Murdoch has behaved in the immediate aftermath of the suspension of his services on Virgin seem only to have confirmed his "everything mine!" mindset. Look how quickly his marketing men moved following the debacle; it's as if these posters are part of some pre-conceived PR stunt:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a43365/in-pictures-skys-poster-campaign.html

While I can't speak for Murdoch's shareholders, there is no doubt what he wants and it's not in the viewers' interests for him to get it.

Ah, but Lost is appearing on the VOD service, is it not?

Virgin is now threatening legal action against BSkyB.

MediaGuardian

Good for them.

Look virgin I am sorry and I really ment it when I rang up to cancel, I really am sorry but you can jump around showing me a VOD service but its just not going to cover my Simpsons, Futurama & Brainiac so sorry but I am doing the shameful thing of bowing down to Murdoch but he's got what I want. I am making the switch the SKY My virgin contract expires on April 5th and Sky are coming to install my dish and box on March 27th...

Sorry but they've got me over a barrell.

Good, you've been talking for a good while about abandoning ship for oft-repeated LCD programming and now you have, kindly shut up about it.

One mans crap is another man's treasures.

Amen to that. First, we're bored with endless questions - the answers to which could have been simply obtained by picking up the Virgin landline and dialling 150 - and now we're subjected to a running commentary of the impossible decision of whether or not to switch from Virgin to Sky.

Seriously, I wish someone would let her into the secret that this website isn't her own personal blog, where she should come and dump every random thought that passes through her mind on the ever-growing Virgin/Sky should I?/shouldn't I? decision-making process.

I'm fairly certain she is a he, no woman with a working mind would watch Brainiac.

Odd that there is news that Virgin Media are suggesting a price rise to replace the Sky Channels:
DS Report
Surely the money they have saved is enough to invest in their own channels, or in Virgin Central to buy rights?