[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by pedg

By football being successful you mean spiralling debts and possible administration for a number of teams? Oh yes, they never had it so good have they?



If you read the ofcom report you would see that ofcom set the prices so that sky could continue to invest as much as they do now and make a reasonable return. At no point have ofcom come out and said it would involve sky spending less or sky not making a profit. Indeed they have reason to believe that with a lowering of the price an increase in subscribers would have a minimal impact on the money that skys broadcasting arm would make. Thus if they make the same money as before there is no reason why sky should not continue as they are at the moment.
Remember ofcom are not telling sky to open up their HD channels for free. VM and BT would have to pay extra for these which would add to skys income. The only reason they have not done so so far is to drive customers to skys delivery system and its stopping this abuse of power that is, to me, the best thing about the ofcom report not a 20% reduction in the cost of my subscription (nice though that would be, I might even put the money saved to pay for the HD channels!).

Well said PEDG