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Originally Posted by Horizon

I posted in this thread the comments that Liberty Global boss Mike Fries made about BT sports when Liberty/VM had their Q2 results webcast last week. I don't think anyone saw the post/was paying attention to it.

Basically, when Fries and the Liberty board was in London a few weeks ago, he said his whole time was pretty much spent dealing with the BT sports issue. He invited the BT and Sky bosses to meet the new VM and Liberty managment team. They had a chat, but they came to no agreement over sports rights.

Fries thinks eventually BT will need to wholesale its channels to VM to recoup some of its costs, but in the short term BT have made it clear that this is not going to happen at the price VM want to pay.

That's from the horses mouth. The webcast is on Liberty's site and anyone can listen to it. Perhaps the situation has changed since then, but I doubt it.

This is interesting. What would you consider to be short term?