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Originally Posted by Big Red
And to add to the above watch out Sky Sports - ESPN are coming.
Fully expect ESPN to out bid Sky on more than one Prem league package when they next come up for bidding - ESPN are a huge Global force.
Remember Sky only get UK rights to Prem League with the Prem League selling Global rights direct - if we all think the current prem deal is crazy then I hate to think what the next deal will be.
And who pays for this? Yep us - does anyone recall Sky reducing the Sports package when Setanta/ESPN had 2 packages - not a chance.
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im sorry to say but there is more to sports than football and to be honest football is all that ESPN is bothered about.
there is a serious lack of motorsports on ESPN and they missed out on both NASCAR (live and highlights) and Indycar (highlights), whats even worse is they missed out on NASCAR to a public broadcast channel.
sure ESPN get DTM but its only due to the fact it is a left over off the Setanta deal. i think its pretty poor that ESPN have big presence in US and they cant even get the bigger Motor racing series from the US on air here in UK.
there is too much focus on football on ESPN that is not relevent here in the UK and there is fans of sports that they are already showing in the US but dont show here in the UK.
you say whch out Sky Sports - ESPN are coming !!
i say Sky Sports have nothing to worry about as all the stuff shown on ESPN is very minority orientated apart from the football and SKY have a wide range of sports that i will watch.
even eurosport has WTCC, SKB, Moto GP, F3 series that are all coming in HD soon.