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Originally Posted by pauldavies83
The EU 6 packages has been a disaster for the die-hard football fan.
Where you used to have to pay 1 broadcaster to get all of the games, now you have to pay 2, increasing the cost for the consumer.
The only way to provide genuine competition and reduce prices for the consumer is to allow more than 1 broadcaster to have rights to the same game. Then the consumer can make a choice on the broadcaster they choose to pay for.
But of course, that doesn't align with Sky & Premier League's bank balances.
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I pretty much agree with you. But let's be clear, Setanta, ESPN or whoever probably wouldn't have bought into that sort of arrangement either, not just Sky.
However something similar has actually happened here, to a point. Sky and ITV Digital held rights to the same PPV EPL games at one time but there were odd circumstances how that came about as NTL originally held those rights then pulled out.