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Originally Posted by demented
It wasn't a serious answer and that was my problem with it. It is a serious question session for investors, journalists and so on listening in and the guy just treats us with contempt. Behaving like that is inappropriate, a journalist of investor with any balls should rip into the man for giving such a mickey mouse answer.
Ofcom have just published, it was perfectly possible for him to quote bits of it and give an answer based on facts. He didn't.
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It was a serious answer.
The question was, when can we expect to get hold of Sky's content (actually, the guy asking just said premier league football, which means nothing, as we have sky sports with the exception of match choice, so he didn't even ask a coherent question).
The answer to that is impossible to say, and that was the response he got.
You seem to have an issue with the use of the phrase "how long is a piece of string", but it's one that gets thrown around a fair bit in meetings, especially on questions as open ended and so open to debate as that one.
He wasn't treating the listener with contempt, but pointing out that it's an issue he really has no control over, and as such isn't in line to make a prediction on it.
As for the latest Ofcom publication, it's entirely irrelevant to being able to answer the question, as all that was published was the responses from the interested parties to the latest round of consults. Ofcom have not made any sort of publication that indicates how they feel on the issue, or what sort of time frame they feel they need to look into it, so none of it is relevant.