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Chad · 16-07-2013, 12:53

Interview with Marc Watson, chief executive of TV at BT Retail:

http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...-sport-1165781

""What I'm hoping it will do is bring more customers into the market who want to watch this sport. Sky is doing one day for free. If [customers] want to watch this kind of sport going forward then there's only one company that's free all the time and that's us," says Watson."

This suggests BT Sports won't go into XL when it arrives on the Virgin platform.

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Chad cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Edinburgh Services: SKY Family, SKY Broadband Unlimited, YouView, Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Boxnation Posts: 5,137	Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news Interview with Marc Watson, chief executive of TV at BT Retail: http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...-sport-1165781 ""What I'm hoping it will do is bring more customers into the market who want to watch this sport. Sky is doing one day for free. If [customers] want to watch this kind of sport going forward then there's only one company that's free all the time and that's us," says Watson." This suggests BT Sports won't go into XL when it arrives on the Virgin platform.