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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan
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"Setanta Sports, which had a similar model, struggled to sign up 1.2m, about 700,000 short of the number it needed to break even – and the Irish broadcaster was paying only £2.8m a game, far below BT's £6.5m. ESPN, incidentally, paid £2.3m a game."
From the same page.
Looks like £20 per month is more likely if they've paid double.
A deal like with ESPN and Setanta looks very unlikely for Virgin.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
VM and Sky will have access to BT's matches however terms will be more favourable on BT Vision in my opinion , they've stumped up big money so surely they'll hope to increase their subscriber base , I wouldn't be shocked if the games are available PPV on Sky/VM/Freeview unless BT plan to snap up more content to warrant a 24/7 sports channel.
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These weren't PPV rights so that won't be happening.
It's the EPL who would decide if they were to be sold as PPV not the broadcaster.
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Originally Posted by Emel
So BT's new sports channel will have one live football match a week during the football season. I think they need a bit more content than that to launch a sports channel.
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Its the same scenario with Formula 1 and Sky managed to justify a channel of it's own.