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crikey looks like BT wants to wipe Sky sports off the map at this rate and make Sky the minor players!

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Somehow l can still see BT remaining the minor players.

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An intersting read, thanks Gavin D.

I have a couple of thoughts about this article

Perhaps BT have decided that the PL rights will be too expensive this time round. A chain is only as strong as it weakest links and perhaps BT have realized its best, and cheapest, chance of breaking Sky's proverbial chain is to take away lots smaller rights and de-vaule Sky's offering.

Either that or BT are trying to get Sky to pony up large sums of cash before the PL auction meaning that BT can go higher than Sky this time around.

Personally I hope BT can nab the cricket rights, not overly fussed about the football.

Like Den says though, I can't imagine Sky rolling over and losing its main rights anytime soon. It is going to be interesting to see how much money Sky can and will spend before admitting defeat in the future with either sports or BB. I can see BT being in this for a long, long time.

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It's a funny old world where a company has to justify why it charges less than its competitors! :confused:

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The real Premier League rivalry kicks off: Sky Sports v BT Sport.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...rivalry-rights

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That's exactly what I was thinking. Surely the ones charging more should be doing the explaining, otherwise this shows that Premier Sports are basically asking for cartel pricing?

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Maybe when contracts are signed there`s an agreementb saying there`s a minimum charge?

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That would be illegal (retail price maintenance). Presumably Virgin can get away with covering its costs as it sells other services to customers whilst Premier Sports has to make money on each sale so can't as it's a one-product company.
It totally agree, it sounds like an inverse version of Watchdog! I did think it a strange comment for Premier Sports to make for it must be in its interests for Virgin to charge less as it increases subscription numbers and presumably Premier Sports still get the same amount per subscriber.

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Didn't Premier Sports initially want to launch on VM as part of the XL TV pack? Obviously they would have stood to make much more revenue from a wholesale deal than as a standalone but VM weren't interested. I think it's safe to say that it's quite a niche channel and would imagine subscriber numbers are relatively low across all platforms so VM probably charge a lower price to try encourage subscriber take up.

Plus didn't it only arrive on VM just in time for the Rugby World Cup last year due to the outcry from Rugby fans?

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1) Yes.
2) Yes about an day before RWC - Not just fans but an English MP.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-media-to.html

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...l-premier.html

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Cheers MB. So potentially it might never have arrived on VM had it not been for them obtaing the RWC rights. Be funny to see the discussion between their CEO and VM's if that Facebook article is true, maybe something like:

PS CEO: Will you charge more for PS on VM?
VM CEO: No
PS CEO: Please
VM CEO: No
PS CEO: Ok

;)

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Is sky spsorts free this weekend to all Virgin media customers?

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yes just Saturday though

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Yes all the SD and HD channels will be free from 6am tomorrow to 6am Sunday

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Haha premier sports are basically saying on the internet they want to charge MORE for their channels???

Surely they should be saying "We're going to get in touch with sky and find out why theyre charging so much more as we want to help our loyal customers..." rather than we're writing to get virgin media charge more so you lot can suffer

Companies these days!

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BoxNation and Premier Sports to join TalkTalk TV line-up from August 22nd

BoxNation will be available for £12 per month

No price for Premier Sports yet

http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/new...lk_tv_line_up/

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Anyone know what that little heart in the bottom right of all the skysports channels is all about?

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If it looks like this

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/08/18.jpg

Then its vm's replacement for the numbers which appeared in the top right

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The funny thing is that the price on the Sky platform is set by Premier Sports itself as Premier sells the channel directly, Sky just sells Premier Sports encryption and the EPG.

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Interesting news Premier Sports and Boxnation are to join Talk Talk TV.

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Will be interesting to see how much Premier Sports retails for on TalkTalk. ;) Wonder if the two channels will make it onto BT TV as well? Simon Green who heads up BT Sport is a director of BoxNation and Premier Sports' mirror channel Setanta distributes BT Sport in Ireland so I'm surprised in a way that TalkTalk has got in before BT.

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The premier league rights would be a big loss for Sky should BT win more packages this time around however I feel its customers would still gain the option to subscribe to BT Sport via the platform anyway.

The Sky platform is the largest pay TV platform in the country whoever wins the rights would have to use it to monetise the content.

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Am I the only one sick of this damn BT box already ? I find it spoils my viewing :mad::td:

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Whats wrong with it exactly MM?.

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I'm referring to the small box BT put up on screen , it wouldn't be so bad if it was used occasionally but during today's United game it was popping up every 2 minutes sometimes just for pointless shots.

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Yes, i found it distracting too

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Pointless sums it up perfectly.:td:

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That's funny cause when watching Assenal last night the number was there as well.

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I only noticed it yesterday whilst watching the Arsenal match, and I thought it had something to do with SS. I hope VM aren't going to be showing that sign very often.

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I watched the Celtic Dundee United game at my brothers who has Virgin Media. At one point you had the score at the top left corner, the SKY Sports 3 sign at the top right, the number just above the SKY Sports sign and the Virgin Media "heart" symbol at the bottom right. I'm sure the red button sign made an appearance too. Way too much stuff being displayed on the screen. None are major distractions but once your aware they are all on screen together at the same time it starts to play on your mind.

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I can imagine. I thought all this number business was going to be a temporary thing a few years back, but it seems like it is the norm now. Even worse that VM jumped on the idea after SS.

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Gary Lineker turns down BT.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...-coverage.html

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It's all about the money...money...money

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According to this it seems Talk Talk are adding the A&E channels also.

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Premier Sports has won the rights to 'Belgian Jupiler League' from August 29th with up to 3 live games per week.

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:rofl::rofl:

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I would love to know if Sky Sports or BT Sport make an bid.

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haha i'd have probably watched it but it certainly wont make me subscribe to premier sports haha

arent the games on at the same time as the spanish/german games?? do they honestly think theyll get people over that!

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l doubt it MB.

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BBC to broadcast the Invictus Games.

First two days highlights only. Then live for final two.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...invictus-games

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History, Lifetime, Crime + Investigation and H2 will join TalkTalk's TV Boosts from August 28.

http://recombu.com/digital/news/talk...s-on-august-28

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BT warns it will increase bills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28902300

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What's the point of Ofcom ?

Line rental is increasing year on year without any justification , £16.99 a month is a ridiculous price in my opinion and you can bet the rest will all do the same.

I'm sure its used by all companies to pay for other things such as sports rights etc.

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Yes l quite agree MM because if l could get rid of my landline l would as the Line rental rise is simply unacceptable in my opinion but because l have a Home monitoring device which sends information down the phone line to the hospital l am stuck with continuous line rental rises year on year when l myself never use the phone.:(

With Ofcom well they are like most regulator's which will bark a bit but simply have no bite at all at the end of the day.

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We need more companies in the UK offering stand alone broadband without the need of line rental......available at a reasonable price. The only time my land line gets used is if someone is phoning me, and often it's about PPI or some other nonsense.

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Agree with all the above. I too would do without a landline if my virgin broadband didn`t cost more without it. And I agree with mm about some of the line rental fee being used for other things such as sports rights. What virgin use it for I don`t know,going towards the cost of providing `free` BT Sport to XL customers?

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Premier Sports is confirmed as £10 per month on talktalk

http://help2.talktalk.co.uk/tv-boosts-and-channels

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Wouldn`t pay 10p a month for this channel let alone £10!

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100% agreed. i love how premier sports consider themselves a channel worthy of ten quid a month haha. As if they're at the big boys table alongside sky and bt. if they charged a realistic amount such as £3 or £4 theyd probably make more money in the long run by getting more subscribers.

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+1

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Premier Sports does seem very overpriced for what you get. Do not have a lot of top level sport.

I like NHL and would watch some GAA. Some South American football and Belgian football would be for true football addicts. Hardly compares with BT and Skys football.

Aussie Rugby League ? not my thing and is a bit of a niche market.

When you think BT/ESPN other 3 channels and in HD for not a whole lot more (for Sky payers) you do wonder how many people actually subscribe to PS across all platforms. Even with NHL and even if they had it in HD i would not pay £10pm.

They need to dramatically reduce the retail price or reduce their price to get Virgin to include the channel in XL

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Well, as long as it's a stand alone channel and not part of a package, they can charge what they like as far as I'm concerned! The value of a product is determined by the number of people who are prepared to part with their cash to get it!

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I would love to know how many subscribers they have. I cannot imagine it's many which makes you wonder how they survive!

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I agree with you MM. Unfortunately, I think a large percentage of the country will still prefer use a landline. My parents and all my Aunts and Uncles still ring each other via landline. Whilst this continues the companies will continue fleece thos who prefer not to. In 15 years I can not see there being a landline charge, due to a generation change where more people are used to using mobile more landlines, but whilst lots of people continue to use the landline, the companies will continue to rip us all off.

Until more people use their landlines less than they use their mobiles, we will all suffer.

It really winds me up, unlike SS, it is not financially viaable for me to not have a landline. Quite how my bills are cheaper with it, is beyond me.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Cant remember where the topic was discussed, but for those who are unaware (I doubt it will be many) and also wanting an excercise in commentary, Barry Davies is commentating on the Palace game on MOTD. His voice will be a sound for sore ears, and I will watch MOTD for that reason alone.

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What ever excites you..different strokes for different folks :D

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When they no longer charge for landlines, my belief is that they will simply transfer the charge elsewhere. I can't see bills coming down overall because they still need to make a profit.

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What most of us want is the price of line rental to COME DOWN TO A REASONABLE PRICE. I doubt very much this will happen any time soon though sadly.

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Yes, I know, but I think if they bring the landline price down it will simply pop up again somewhere else.

The competition on the price of broadband is so intense that I wouldn't be surprised if some of that cost is being absorbed and transferred into the landline charge.

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Indeed all l can see is it soon reaching £20 a month in the next couple of years.:(

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Yes agree,and then I would have to look at saving elsewhere,i.e a cheaper broadband deal such as Plusnet or Talk Talk.

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I'm seriously thinking of dumping everything and going Freeview and Vonage.
The only thing i would keep is the broadband for Netflix/Prime.

Or i may keep the Tivo and move down to the minimum package and dump the phone, if the pricing doesn't make it worth my while i'll do what i said above and dump it all, except 60meg BB.

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This. I subscribe purely for the Aussie NRL games. Its easily worth the money for that alone to me. It's going off during the close season though :)

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And there we have it. If you enjoy the sports shown on this channel then it must be worth the cost. I am only interested in football so for me the channel is of no interest to me what-so-ever and therefore pointless me subscribing to it for what a few football matches they do show.

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This new SSN HQ is seriously doing my head in now , why do we constantly need to keep going to the wall telling us what's on across the Sky Sports channels.:mad::mad:

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Probably because sky love advertising their programs at every opportunity. Look how often they advertise up and coming matches during a live match. I also think it fills some time in.

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Well you did say you do believe in better.;)

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I believe in discounts ;) I wouldn't pay full price for any of the pay TV providers now , that's for mugs.;)

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I agree, mugs or for Virgins :D

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Calm down dear and take another tablet.;):D

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Well our contract is up in November so we will definitely be looking for a better deal.

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Is there anywhere in 'My VirginMedia' where i can see when my contract runs out?

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l cannot find anything.

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Thank's for looking. I do, however, have a discount that runs out next May which might offer a clue.

I guess a phone call is on the cards.

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Sky Sports News HQ launches on now TV

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...now-tv-1263090

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VM have extended the sky sports season ticket offer to October 31st and its now £140 instead of £150

http://store.virginmedia.com/special...sonTicket_ban3

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Looks like it is £140 for 9 months instead of £150 for 10 months. So it is a higher cost per month but still worth it over the £29.25 standard monthly cost.

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Only £346k per week, so bargain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...long-loan.html

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55p more I work it out at

£15pm @ 10 months - £150

£15.55pm @ 9 months - £140

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Now BT Sports have the transfer ticker at the top of the TV screen.:td:

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Lol, and not a sign of desperation at all!:)

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is bt launching a new channel bt sports extra 1

http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/tv-bro...updates/082014

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good evening gents

two questions for you tonight:

1) can we not watch sky sports news on a laptop via virgin tv anywhere? ie the normal process? it seems to load straight to the sky sports website

2) how many devices can we log into for it? i've got my phone accessed, i had my old phone accessed recently but ive now deleted the app of it and it wont let me access via the laptop. Do i need to wait a certain time? Is there anyway i can track this??

I thought we'd get tv anywhere usual process on computers/laptops plus this new sky sports website way...obviously not?

Many thanks you handsome gents and ladies

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anyone have any ideas? never had to bump my own message before... i feel unpopular and lonely as i do in real life...

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Ok Vince.
Seeing as everyone is ignoring you I'll try and give you my understanding.
To access any Sky sports channels via VM you have to go through sky sports.

You can however have different devices for VM and Sky.

My mac an iPad is registered to SKY and my mac and iPhone are registered to VM anywhere. You can change devices only 1 a month.

You can view and change devices via Vm anywhere settings

Ash

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The sky go app allows you to have two devices added to it. Not sure about Sky sports app, just try and add devices until they say you have reached your limit. With the Sky go app, I think you can only change the devices 4 times a month, I don't think there is a limit for any period longer than a month.

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Haha cheers you two I'll give it a go later. I feel less pathetic now. I tried accessing virgin media tv anywhere to watch sky sports and it automatically loaded up the sky go website. Quite queer!

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BT tipped to make Phones 4u purchase

http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/news/in...-purchase.aspx

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Watching the build up to the grand prix on the Sky Sports website with my Virgin login on the laptop in the kitchen as I'm cooking the Sunday lunch, and I have to say the process is easy and the streaming quality is amazingly good. Good job all round.

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If the SKY Sports season pass still only available to Big Bang and Big Kahuna customers? My Dad cancelled SKY Sports at the end of last season and planned to add it back to his package this week. Problem is he only has TV XL, no broadband or telephone. He fancied the season pass but I don't think it's available to him. Is there any other SKY Sports deals etc....

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a deal? Don't know.

Does this help?

http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...buspart=AFF_28

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Yes, still only available to the two Big Bundles you quoted.

The pass is a significant saving over the normal price and they're certainly not going to give it to anyone with only one service.

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It seems likely... wonder what it will show?

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Presumably it's a red button service for when it has a full schedule across its three channels but has a good event worth showing. Or it's a barker channel which will show the odd Champions League and Europa League match next season. Or both.

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Latest Scottish football fixtures confirmed:

http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/lates...bt-live-games/

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My half price three month deal on Sky Sports has ended so I rang up with a view to either cancelling it or reducing my package in other areas to cover the cost of it, and was promptly offered a further 3 months at half price, which will take me nicely to the end of my loyalty discount in December when I shall have another think - so anybody else with the Sports channels might want to consider a little phone call!

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I got 20% of my package (i have a nice package, if I say so myself :D).

And HD sports for free. Once march comes, will think about whether to change

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I'm getting the numbers in live mlb on BT Sport now!

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I've been offered it and am only on XL.

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Got a flyer from VM through the post this morning. Half price Sky Sports pack for 3 months (£13.65 pm).

Wouldnt pay £27pm full price but at half price thought why not. Haven't dished out for the HD premium though.

I was still on Premiere Collection so have finally taken the plunge and moved over to the Big Kahuna. BB upgraded from 100 to 152Mb and upgraded tel to XL which i had before. Kept everything else as was inc 2 Tivos.

£80.74 (without the Sky sports) so getting faster BB (not that i really need that) for just under a quid less than i was paying before.

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BSkyB signs new NFL television rights deal

Full news

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BT testing the water for new price point of BT Sports?

http://advanced-television.com/2014/...tive-pressure/

“One of the most interesting price moves in recent months has been BT’s increase in the price of Sky Sports to £21 from £15.50. This does now include Sky Sports 5, but essentially this is the same content as was previously on Sky Sports 1 and 2. To us, this suggests: 1) the BT base currently taking Sky Sports (small) may now be more loyal to BT Sport, thus reducing the churn risk, 2) BT is now also likely paying Sky more on a retail-minus basis; and 3) BT may be testing the higher pricing points ahead of its own bidding for Premier League rights.”