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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I suppose they have to balance sport acquisitions against subscriber revenues. BSKYB get at least 20.00 per subscriber for their sports channels were as ESPN get 9.00 from Sky subscribers or 12.00 without sky sports and we don't know how much they make off VM per subscriber as this is integrated into XL.
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Yes thats true and i had that also in the back of my mind as well as ESPNS public interviews, as the reason when the EPL come up for re-newal or other major sports Sky obviously will be in the box seat,as you say because of the revenues they generate in the uk ESPNS being much lower as they charge less and their sub base is far smaller.
Mind you if they really wanted to compete unlike setanta they have a wealthy owner disney and could take a serious hit for a few years whlist building up a uk sports portfolio,by adding a couple of channels and upping their subs slowly as they go,thereby giving sky a real run for their money sadly though this will not happen.