Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35711028)

On a different note, I don't how long they have been showing it but I have just seen a BT advert with Gareth Bale and Jake Humphries on a voice over telling customers BT Sport have CL football in 2015, so be careful if you want to take out a free broadband for the next two years. :-)

Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35711028)

Lol, Sky must laughing pretty darn hard right about now. Some bigwig in Sky has just said something along the lines of "we have saved ourselves £4 hundred million on CL rights alone, we've lost less than .30% of our customers during the closed football season and when the season restarts we will show copious amounts of boring, turgid defense minded games which teams don't want to lose. Should we still put our prices up? Course we should, because we know people will whinge and moan, but they will still pay it."

Originally Posted by nicko (Post 35711030)

The advert said that they have all the European club competitions, not just champions league.

Originally Posted by azbazlol (Post 35711047)

Any news in disney hd channels yet either as media boy did seem to think June but obviously they aren't launching in June,

Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35711028)

On a different note, I don't how long they have been showing it but I have just seen a BT advert with Gareth Bale and Jake Humphries on a voice over telling customers BT Sport have CL football in 2015, so be careful if you want to take out a free broadband for the next two years. :-)

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35711037)

BT have all champions league and Europa league games from 2015 , I'm sure the La Liga rights are also up for renewal but not sure who'll win them.

Originally Posted by azbazlol (Post 35711047)

I'm sorry but I may be new to all go this but when did this become the sky sports forum. Just coming personally don't take much thought into taking sky sports and most people on here don't have it either so is there ANY NEWS (except from "summer") on entertainment channels launching as I live in Scotland and we are ALREADY IN THE SUMMER AND school holidays??

Any news in disney hd channels yet either as media boy did seem to think June but obviously they aren't launching in June, Virgin media really have to pull there finger out as all we have had is false hope and price increases!!!

Originally Posted by dwarfofpoison (Post 35710871)

I fail to see how anybody feels that there is ever going to be any real competition for sports on TV. All the rights are currently sold exclusively to individual providers whether it be premier league football, cricket, formula 1, darts or generally any sport that can garner enough television viewers (FTA national treasures like Wimbledon & the World Cup protected by law are another matter).

Until the same rights are sold to several different providers there is absolutely no chance of any real competition. The only competition is for the sports rights themselves between providers, which in turn can only mean price increases for the viewer as the bidding wars become astronomical![/QUOTE

I agree. As it stands a football fan has to subscribe to both Sky sports and BT sports if he wants to see all the live televised games regardless of cost. The only thing that keeps the cost down a little is not wanting to price themselves out of the market,and Sky are in danger of doing just that if they put their prices up as much as has been suggested.
BT scores a bit of a winner by offering free sport to its broadband customers and by being included in virgins xl package.

Originally Posted by azbazlol (Post 35711047)

I'm sorry but I may be new to all go this but when did this become the sky sports forum. Just coming personally don't take much thought into taking sky sports and most people on here don't have it either so is there ANY NEWS (except from "summer") on entertainment channels launching as I live in Scotland and we are ALREADY IN THE SUMMER AND school holidays??

Any news in disney hd channels yet either as media boy did seem to think June but obviously they aren't launching in June, Virgin media really have to pull there finger out as all we have had is false hope and price increases!!!

Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35711106)

Unless Disney hd channels become an additional chargeable channels we ain't gonna see them anytime soon,lg seem to be focused on acquiring channels and apps that costs can be passed onto us customers sadly :(

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35711041)

Spot on. From my earlier calculation based upon Chad's research, I was surprised to see that Sky Sports has only risen by inflation since 2004.

Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35710825)

But don't forget, the remaining sports channels are coming to Virgin this summer. There was always bound to be a rise to help pay for it. Just proves my theory, customers want more content but don't want to pay extra for it.

Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35711128)

I still think it should be made compulsory that HD has no extra charge. Its ridiculous having extra for a high definition picture. I wonder if this is the case in other countries??