Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

Virgin Media will pay around £75m a year for three years to carry BT Sport, it is understood.

How does that compare to the old ESPN deal?
Anyone care to calculate how much that works out per customer?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...gin-Media.html

l cannot remember what they paid for the ESPN deal but l like many other Virgin customers are just happy that both sides came to a deal and one that makes the XL pack great value for money in the process and yes l know a price rise will be coming for this pack but its still excellent value in my humble opinion..

muppetman11

15-08-2013 18:32

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Originally Posted by Richc1977 (Post 35610738)

Or around £3 per XL subscriber per month working on 2 million XL subscribers.

martin201002

15-08-2013 18:43

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Certainly is a good time to be a Virgin Media customer.

Jameseh

15-08-2013 18:44

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35610754)

Or around £3 per XL subscriber per month working on 2 million XL subscribers.

I get it as £1.04

75,000,000 / 36 / 2,000,000 = £1.04.

martin201002

15-08-2013 18:46

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35610762)

I get it as £1.04

75,000,000 / 36 / 2,000,000 = £1.04.

So we can expect it facilitated as a price rise then.

andy_m

15-08-2013 18:49

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What were they paying ESPN? Similar wasn't it? In other words the cost of the rights have sky rocketed, and Virgin have managed to keep them for the same cost?

pythagoras

15-08-2013 18:49

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35610762)

I get it as £1.04

75,000,000 / 36 / 2,000,000 = £1.04.

Its 75 million per year

martin201002

15-08-2013 18:51

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Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35610768)

What were they paying ESPN? Similar wasn't it? In other words the cost of the rights have sky rocketed, and Virgin have managed to keep them for the same cost?

It appears so, must be good at negotiations.

Catesby

15-08-2013 18:51

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35610762)

I get it as £1.04

75,000,000 / 36 / 2,000,000 = £1.04.

It's £75m per year so it's £6.25m per month Virgin are paying. I've read that there are 3m TV XL customers so that would be £2 each per customer (or £3 each if it's actually 2m customers).

martin201002

15-08-2013 18:52

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Think the price is about £3.10. 75,000.000 / 12 / 2,000,000 = £3.125.

Catesby

15-08-2013 18:56

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35610771)

It appears so, must be good at negotiations.

If it wasn't on XL and only available as a stand alone sub, BT would have needed to get 500,000 HD subscribers every year, taking the channels for the full 12 months, in order to match what they are getting in this deal.

I would expect BT to be happy with this deal.

HDFootyMan

15-08-2013 18:56

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"Virgin could be in trouble here.....and that's a fantastic goal-line clearance! And Virgin Media are on the break! Its 4 vs 3! BT Sport 2 is onside! :shocked: and has been found with a killer pass! Virgin could win this here, there's players queuing up to convert a cross, will it come? It does.....BT SPORT 1HHHDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!"

Git in here! Virgin Media Crowd goes wild! BT Sport runs into the crowd to celebrate!

"Virgin have snatched victory, from the jaws of Pay-TV defeat! .....they think its all over......it is now!!! What a result!"

Chris Kamara: "Its unbelievable Jeff!"

:shocked::D

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