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Originally Posted by Chad
I've just been reading posts on the coming soon thread that raised an interesting point.
ESPN channels are premium content which everyone on the XL package receives. Virgin have to pay ESPN a fee for everyone that takes the XL package, regardless of whether they watch the channels or not. If Virgin removed the ESPN content, this would free up money to add new channels. The ESPN channels would then become a subscription service, just like on SKY. If you want ESPN, then it's say £9.00 per month.
Do you believe removing ESPN, ESPN HD and ESPN America from the XL package would be beneficial to Virgin?
P.S. I haven't added ESPN Classic or Classic on demand as these would surely aren't classed as premium whilst the other 3 are.
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At the present moment I wouldn`t pay extra to get ESPN because there is so little Premier league football on it. If say in the future there was alot more then I would consider it but to be honest I`d probably just stick with Sky sports because they do it so much better than anyone else. I think £9 would be to much though,£4 more like it,if you subscribe to sky sports anyway.