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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan
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.
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You can guarantee the BT Sports channel will be available on as many platforms as possible as they will have paid a significant sum to obtain these two packs and will need to recoup their costs through subscriptions and advertising so will need it as widely available as they can. If they don't then their TV arm could easily do a Setanta and sink due to them paying out more than they are receiving.
It would also probably be worth BT agreeing a similar deal with VM as ESPN currently have as this would ensure that it will be available in many more homes with the XL TV package than it would ever get as a standalone on VM.