Thread: General ESPN may lose EPL Football(Update)
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Old 13-06-2012, 20:15   #110
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Re: ESPN may lose EPL Football
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Originally Posted by Superblade7 View Post
I'm sure they'd like to draw more customers but you have to remember that both Sky and VM have well established platforms with lots of additional features like TiVo, HD channels access to all Sky Sports & Movies channels and so on.

BT Vision is a glorified freeview box with far less content than either Sky or Virgin
Yeah, now, but that's going to change, and sooner than people think. They've been working on multi-casting linear TV content over their network for over a year now (cheaper than broacasting SS1 & SS2 over DTT) and as you say, in the future they'll be looking to take on both Sky and VM. They certainly have the funds to do that, as today's auction results has proved.

They already have plans to offer FX as a linear channel, along with some of the UK TV channels:
http://www.c21media.net/archives/80116
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