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Originally Posted by Chad
Here is a real eye opener.
SKY Sports on Virgin Media costs £25.75 plus £7.00 if you want SKY Sports 1 and 2 in HD. That's £32.75 per month for just 8 channels.
The XL package on it's own, without phone or broadband, is only £32.00 month if taken with a V HD box rather than TiVo. That's less than what you pay for SKY Sports and you get:
200+ channels (37 of which are in HD)
BT Sports & ESPN
Catch up TV
TV on demand
When you look at it like that, the price of SKY Sports starts to look ludicrous. I think there might be rocky times ahead for SKY Sports.
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V. Interesting Chad. VM and BT can really force Sky to seriously look at it's sports packages prices and availability to other broadcasters now. It will be interesting to see if many VM customers decide to stop Sky Sports because they can they can see plenty of football (albeit lots of non-pl football) free of charge through BT Sports.
Also, I do not know enough about Sky's packages to make a comparison. As a Sky customer are you able (and willing) to compare the cost of the most similar Sky TV package (without any discount and Sky Sports package)?
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Originally Posted by Chad
I can't see Ofcom forcing SKY to offer SKY Sports on Youview unless it is proven that BT have actually tried to wholesale their channels to SKY in return at a reasonable rate.
I agree that BT are in this for the long haul. I was reading today they have signed up 10,000 commercial customers so far at a rate of between £75.00 to £125.00 per month. BT have also made their channels available in Ireland via Setanta Sports.
I just can't see this being the loss making exercise everyone thinks it will be. I think BT will be aggressive when the Champions League rights become available for bidding in the next couple of months. Who knows, maybe the money from Virgin will help them see off bids from SKY?
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Lets hope they can pull off a coup there! Perhaps they could get financial support from VM too and have an ad campaign saying ALL Champions league football (including ITVs games) are free on VM and free with BT BB, and that you will have to pay to watch them with on Sky without BT BB.
How great would free CL football be for those who love their football?
I think Sky will just spend daft amounts of money on those rights though.
