Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35570228)

If there was no truth in it whatsoever what would be the point of having the channel exclusive on the Sky platform ? Sky are a business and as such are in the game of making money.

Originally Posted by coulsontom (Post 35570145)

Everyone's saying BT will make losses on the Sport side of things.

However, they probably expect to for the first few years, and as others have said, prob hope to take more rights and end up in a 50/50 style share situation with Sky (which would result in BT surely then charging, and presumably sky having to lower their prices)

But if BT get a good increase in viewers, which is likely, as they have 5m Broadband subscribers now, plus the inevitable people they entice, plus those who subscribe who used to have ESPN.

It is logical to predict they will have more viewers than Sky Sports. They could therefore market the advertising slots very competitively and charge more than if they had subscribers paying.

Say they had 1.5m paying £15 that's £22.5m
BT is paying £246m per season. Subscriptions wouldn't even scrap the surface anyway.

BT made a profit of £675m last year.

They're not eating into that too much are they?

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35570263)

IF l am not wrong VM customers using phone lines - the calls goes through a BT Exchange, am l right. where as Sky BB goes via satellite. I may be wrong.

Originally Posted by Lostlam (Post 35570331)

I have just been told by someone who works for BT, that BT Sports will not be coming to VM at all. If this is true, VM could be in for a wake up call.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35570335)

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35570335)

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

Originally Posted by nstokes (Post 35570338)

I agree with you Den

Originally Posted by Lostlam (Post 35570339)

Hope so mate, but VM are slowly losing me. Their only selling point that is keeping me is TIVO, as there prices keep rising.

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I thought so, but the person seemed quite adamant.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35570342)

l am afraid employees have no knowledge of the in and outs of boardrooms and frankly he is just making it up.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35570335)

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35570357)

So that would naturally mean your also talking cobblers as you also have no inside knowledge either way , so its not advisable to mislead people asking the question. BenMcr has already provided a link you can register with for updates on the situation , so let VM keep the customer informed rather than making random assumptions without the source to back it up , its not at all helpful.