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Originally Posted by Kushan
Possible, but unlikely. It's not like ESPN only has contracts with Virgin, ESPN is available on Sky as well (just sky charges extra) and likely others. It would be a massive coincidence if all of their contracts expired at the same time, especially as these kinds of contracts tend to last years and years.
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If I remember correctly the channels went live on VM and Sky in early August 2009. BT are due to take over at the end of July 2013, possibly timed to match the expiry of an existing 4 year contract?
The ESPN channels on other platforms are an add-on package and BT Sports channels will also be an add-on package, so the old ESPN add-on packages will, most likely, be rolled out into the new BT Sports ones. Only VM includes the ESPN channels in one of the basic packages, so the situation for VM isn't really comparable.