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nialli · 01-04-2010, 08:23

All this talk in the papers about the sporting bodies weighing in, concerned that their revenues will drop as Sky will no longer pay the big bucks as they will no longer be able to promote the pay dish platform as the best (and for non-cable areas, only) place to view sport. Absolute tosh.
Why are people ignoring the impact ESPN is having on the sports rights market? With the deeper-than-Murdoch pockets of Disney backing it, it will be a far more competitive bidding process for most sports going forward than the unbalanced Sky v Setanta bidding of yore. Better we have two well-matched heavyweights in competition than a self-serving monopoly, surely?

01-04-2010, 08:23	#224
nialli Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Greenwich, SE10 Services: Sky Stream, Sky broadband Posts: 865	Re: OFCOM ready to rule? All this talk in the papers about the sporting bodies weighing in, concerned that their revenues will drop as Sky will no longer pay the big bucks as they will no longer be able to promote the pay dish platform as the best (and for non-cable areas, only) place to view sport. Absolute tosh. Why are people ignoring the impact ESPN is having on the sports rights market? With the deeper-than-Murdoch pockets of Disney backing it, it will be a far more competitive bidding process for most sports going forward than the unbalanced Sky v Setanta bidding of yore. Better we have two well-matched heavyweights in competition than a self-serving monopoly, surely?