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Originally Posted by Telly Bear
This is all round bad news for Virginmedia, They pay a lot for Skysports and BT will want a lot for their channelas they have paid A LOT of money for the 2 packs.
Why give Virginmedia a cheap deal? BT is also a platform owner like SKY where premierplus and ESPN were just content. So BT will use this as a pull to get customers onto BT-Vision.
No incentive to give Virginmedia a cheap deal as they're a competing platform. An that is a very important point to keep in mind.
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Excellent point. ESPN weren't a platform and it was in their interests to make that XL deal with VM.
Once BT's rollout is complete and their linear TV service is up and running, I'm sure BT customers will get the football cheaper than VM customers. I'm going to enjoy 'free' football on XL while I can.
And I'm sure BT will remember how Sky reduced their profit margin on SS1 and SS2 by raising the retail price of those channels, within hours of BT announcing deals for those channels. Love to be a fly on the wall within the room for those BT-Sky talks.