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Originally Posted by Telly Bear
This is nothing like Setanta, Unless Setanta had a customer base of 10's of millions taking phoneline rental, phone calls, broadband packages that we didn't know about. Or unless Setanta secretly had a turnover of £Billions that no one knew about.
BT Have clearly stated they went for the EPL rights to give them some leverage towards getting Sky content on their own platform. If spending £700 million over 3 years not only gives them exclusive first pick EPL, Skysports 1-2HD, Skysports 3-4,Sky Atlantic on their own platform then its money very well spent.
I strongly suspect BT went in to get 3 packs and are not to pleased at only getting 2.
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I think 7 million Sky subscribers take Sky sports.
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So nearly two thirds , I think on VM its about a million which is just over a quarter. So BT need to do a deal with Sky much more than they do VM.