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Originally Posted by Telly_
If OFCOM are seriously here for the benefit of consumers then they would do this, its possible to do.
Sky are not to blame for the greed of the EPL, people need to sit up and direct attention to the content owners. If they want to sell their content in the UK then they can't have exclusive contracts.
They won't pull out of the UK lossing 100's of £millions. It really is a simple fix, do you think SKY want to pay £2billion for football? Or £6.6million per game?
Oh Murdoch niether owns nore runs Sky, by the end of August he won't be the biggest share holder either.
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SKY fully play into the EPL's hands. They both have interests in high EPL contracts as it means plenty of profit for them both. The EPL would be nothing without SKY and SKY would be nothing without the EPL. SKY would pay £2billion if they can make half a billion in profit from, which they most certainly will. The same applies ()albeit to a lesser extent) to the ECB and RFU.
Why would content owners spend time and money thrashing out seperate deals with various companies when SKY just just name a figure and they then make a fortune from SKY and then selling the programmes on itunes etc. I still agree with your point though, I dont agree that SKY, itunes or numerous other companies are blameless though.
Murdoch owns the most shares in SKY and his son makes (or at least made) all the major decisions. One of them makes the decisions that affect exclusivity and they just want to control as much of the media as they can within the law. The sooner they are both kicked out of all our media, the better. The problem is, no goverment will because he "donates" so much to their party.
I must stress again that I still agree with your original point. Alas, as a business, what SKY, HBO and many others do makes perfect sense. Does it help the poor hard up consumer? no it does not.
Lets all form a protest
