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Originally Posted by cityfan247
whether i subscribe to the new BT sports pack (assuming it comes to VM) is going to come down to cost and whether i think it represents value to me.
Premier League footy? it wont have as many games as Sky so if its a choice of one or the other for people Sky (whilst more expensive) may be better value to some.
Bundesliga/serie A/Ligue 1- i like my footy but i have asked myself how many of these games do i actually watch ? to be honest i dont watch that many- i probably watch more La Liga games (on Sky Sports of course)
US Sports- assuming there is some type of ESPN America equivalent. I have subscribed since NASN first started up. But ESPN Americas rights have been diluted since they lost the NHL and and NFL programming. NFL is on Sky and i am not that overly bothered about NBA.
I like College sports and baseball but i have subscribed to MLB.TV for a few years so that sorts my baseball fix and last year i could watch all Notre Dame football games(my favs) perfectly legally on the NBC website.
i ask myself could i live without ESPN America right now - yeh i can and in fact if it wasnt part of the ESPN pack in XL i probably would pay for it these days tbh.
i question how many punters will be a) able and b) willing to fork out the potential £40+ pm for both Sky Sports and BT Sports. Whilst they have tried to increase their portfolio BT Sports is pretty much the same as Setanta & ESPN before it - and look at whats happened to them. BT may be a bigger beast but if they think some premier league games and other stuff is going to make jump from Sky or VM to their platform or choose BT sports over Sky Sports or in addition to it i wonder if they have over estimated their likely revenue from the UK market just as it seems Setanta and ESPN did (you could even include the ill fated ITV Sport deal in English Football a decade or so ago). If BT Sports doesnt make money (or enough of it) how long before they also pull the plug?
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You're not seeing the bigger picture. Bt sports subs aren't the most important thing to BT. It's basically a sweetener to get people to take Infinity and phone and then bundle in vision with it. They can then offer BT vision at a small or no cost for say 12 months etc and then they may have that customer hooked, then they could start charging say after 12/18 months.
Infinity uptake is strong and is growing. BT are invested vastly in their vision service by signing deals with a rang of channels. BT vision over Infinity delivery won't simply be a freeview platform. In fact some of the new channels have already launched.
If uptake of infinity increases then this will be seen as a success.
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Originally Posted by coulsontom
I understand they have 19 first picks. (City v Utd, Utd v City, Che v Ars, Liv v Utd etc...)
And then 19 last picks.
I just assumed that the first picks meant in the 4pm sunday slots.
Even if sat lunch, they still have first picks for half the season.
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18 first picks.