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Originally Posted by martyh
it seems a little unfair to me to force sky to drop it's prices ,they have put in all the investment over the last 15-20 yrs ,if it wasn't for sky then football and sports coverage in the uk would still be stuck like it was in the 70's and early 80's .Jeremy Darrach has good right to be upset .
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One man's investment is another man's purchased monopoly.
As to sport being stuck in 70's and 80's if we still only had 3/4 channels that we had then that football and sport on TV would be a very different beast to what it is now. The main driver for how TV sport has developed in this country is not down to sky but to the worldwide development of multichannel technology that has allowed the opening of channels dedicated totally to sport, something that would have been unthinkable in the 70's and 80's.