Cable Forum - Merged:-Comcast makes Bid for Sky

Let's see what price they come out with.

Remember for Â£10.00 per month Setanta Sports, depending on your TV provider, offered Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Sports News, Setanta Golf, Arsenal TV, Celtic TV, LFC TV and Rangers TV. Setanta peaked at 1.5 million subscribers which included Virgin Media XL customers.

BT Sports are only offering 2 dedicated channels. There is no way they can match the content provided by Setanta Sports. They won't be able to match the content offered by ESPN / ESPN America either.

Any more than Â£10.00 per month and BT Sports will simply price themselves out of the market. Setanta went down the pan, ESPN are leaving the UK. BT Sports won't last long if they try to rip people off.

telegramsam

07-02-2013 19:46

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Something will have to go in our. household because wont be able to afford sky sports,espn AND bt sports. I wonder what chances there are of sky bundling all 3 together at a affordable price?

denphone

07-02-2013 19:54

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35533637)

Setanta also had Racing UK as well Chad which is Â£20 a month now

nstokes

07-02-2013 19:57

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I think Â£10 a month for 2 channels will be expensive so lets hope its lets than that. I reckon ill have to get rid of ESPN to be able to afford BT Sports which is a shame

denphone

07-02-2013 20:00

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Originally Posted by nstokes (Post 35533645)

I think Â£10 a month for 2 channels will be expensive so lets hope its lets than that. I reckon ill have to get rid of ESPN to be able to afford BT Sports which is a shame

Personally l think it will be around Â£12 for subscribers on Sky and lets hope for Virgin it replaces the outgoing ESPN on the XL package.

muppetman11

07-02-2013 20:05

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I'll put my house on it only being available in a pack on BT Vision why on earth would they give their major competitors a massive advantage , I believe it will be sold on a monthly subscription basis on both Sky and VM probably around the Â£10 mark however until we see a press release its pure speculation.

Jameseh

07-02-2013 22:30

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Yeah, BT will replace their 'free' ESPN with BT Sports, hopefully we can get the same on cable.

muppetman11

08-02-2013 15:58

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Jamie Carragher to possibly join Sky Sports.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#axzz2KK73EukX

Bogof

08-02-2013 17:51

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35533696)

Yeah, BT will replace their 'free' ESPN with BT Sports, hopefully we can get the same on cable.

Hmmm didnt Espn get setantas rights which cost setantas Â£159 million. BT just paid 3 quarters of a billion Â£'s, so I doubt they will give them away for anywhere near what VM were paying ESPN.

VM will either drop the price of XL or increase it if they want to include BT sports.

denphone

08-02-2013 17:54

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Originally Posted by Bogof (Post 35534045)

VM will either drop the price of XL or increase it if they want to include BT sports.

None of us will know what happens until a firm announcement is made.

Bogof

08-02-2013 19:19

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35533647)