Thread: OFCOM ready to rule?
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Old 08-03-2010, 17:18   #142
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Re: OFCOM ready to rule?
Looks like Sky might get to retail channels on Freeview as compensation for being forced to slash whole sale prices on Sports and Movies:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...m-pay-tv-bskyb

I find this bit fascinating

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Consider this simple fact: in 1997, the last year in the UK when all homes were analogue-only, Sky had 3.6 million TV subscribers and cable had 3.5 million; everyone else made do with four or five channels. Today, Sky has 9.2 million UK subscribers, Freeview is in just shy of 10m homes on the main set and cable (now virtually all digital) languishes at 3.7m.
That is a long time for your subscriber base to remain so static.
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