Thread: General Exclusive TV rights.
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Old 10-08-2012, 08:11   #14
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Re: Exclusive TV rights.
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Originally Posted by harry_hitch View Post
The problem being, SKY can and will pay for exclusive rights just because they can.(
Exactly They can, and do, outbid everybody for their content.

Ignoring Sport and Movies for a moment, my main issue with Sky is when they find US import on Terrestrial TV that has been a success and then outbid everyone for the second (and/or more) season.

As if that weren't enough, for any TV shows they buy themselves they always purchase both the PayTV rights and the FTA rights; but then never use the latter. This means that no other channel can ever (for life of contract at least) show it. That's fine because, of course, Sky have PickTV that is FTA don't they? They could show it on there a year or two later, couldn't they? Well yes. They could. But they don't.

Now I'm all for Sky having "first run PayTV rights" if they want them but there is no need to buy the FTA rights and not use them. That's just wrong.
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