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themelon · 06-12-2004, 11:28

The Wholesale cost of Sky Sports should again be reviewed, last time it was reviewed there were only 3 or maybe 4 channels now there are 10.

There are 6 games+ that we help to pay for, that we do not recieve in any form. This is wrong and Sky is abusing it monopoly postion in my opinion!

Im not remotely bothered about the Interactive.........just the football matches we help to buy the rights for but cannot see........unless we have an ugly dish and subscribe to Sky!

The cable companies still out penerate Sky in cable areas today, Sky has advantage that it is available to 100% of the population so will naturally have more subscribers. The cable companies offer a cometative product but were crippled by the governments hairbrained idea of franchising (ie letting lots of small companies with little capital, or income dig holes all over the country) instead of letting on big company (even BT was interested) do it! in the interest of stopping monopolies.

In the late 1980s BSB was awarded the first satellite broadcast license by the UK Governement.........they had to provide their own satellites (two, one as backup) and use the superior DMAC Format, this was a condition of the license. Sky was originally a 'pirate' they rented space and used a decidely dodgy but cheapo method of recieving the weaker signal with a big ugly dish compared to the BSB Squariel. OFCOMS predecessor suffered a massive lack of balls in allowing this.........which helped Sky get where it is to day breaking every rule in the book. Murdochs Sky didnt spend hardly anything getting started, and then merged with BSB creating BSkyB, they then sold off the good stuff and continued to use their decidley dodgy, but bigger profit margin methods! I remember the first Amsatrad box from Sky........it was the most tacky thing I had ever seen, like something you get from the seaside souvenir shops!

To this very day they still abuse their position, it is in my opinion clearly anti-competative to sign exclsuive deals for Interactive content, or give subscribers to 'your' channel on a competitiors platform a raw deal, Sky are still making a profit from the subscription of cable customers, so why treat them like crap............answer to make them get a dish.........anti competative!

06-12-2004, 11:28	#9
themelon Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Stoke-On-Trent Posts: 561	Re: Will NTL ever catch up with Sky? The Wholesale cost of Sky Sports should again be reviewed, last time it was reviewed there were only 3 or maybe 4 channels now there are 10. There are 6 games+ that we help to pay for, that we do not recieve in any form. This is wrong and Sky is abusing it monopoly postion in my opinion! Im not remotely bothered about the Interactive.........just the football matches we help to buy the rights for but cannot see........unless we have an ugly dish and subscribe to Sky! The cable companies still out penerate Sky in cable areas today, Sky has advantage that it is available to 100% of the population so will naturally have more subscribers. The cable companies offer a cometative product but were crippled by the governments hairbrained idea of franchising (ie letting lots of small companies with little capital, or income dig holes all over the country) instead of letting on big company (even BT was interested) do it! in the interest of stopping monopolies. In the late 1980s BSB was awarded the first satellite broadcast license by the UK Governement.........they had to provide their own satellites (two, one as backup) and use the superior DMAC Format, this was a condition of the license. Sky was originally a 'pirate' they rented space and used a decidely dodgy but cheapo method of recieving the weaker signal with a big ugly dish compared to the BSB Squariel. OFCOMS predecessor suffered a massive lack of balls in allowing this.........which helped Sky get where it is to day breaking every rule in the book. Murdochs Sky didnt spend hardly anything getting started, and then merged with BSB creating BSkyB, they then sold off the good stuff and continued to use their decidley dodgy, but bigger profit margin methods! I remember the first Amsatrad box from Sky........it was the most tacky thing I had ever seen, like something you get from the seaside souvenir shops! To this very day they still abuse their position, it is in my opinion clearly anti-competative to sign exclsuive deals for Interactive content, or give subscribers to 'your' channel on a competitiors platform a raw deal, Sky are still making a profit from the subscription of cable customers, so why treat them like crap............answer to make them get a dish.........anti competative!