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Sky and Virgin Media have ended their 20-month dispute over carriage of Sky's basic channels on the Virgin platform. Sky channels including Sky News, Sky 1 and Sky Sports News will be available to Virgin subscribers from 13 November in a deal that will also see Virgin TV channels such as Living and Bravo remaining on the Sky platform.

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