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Originally Posted by colin25
Couldn't BT open up another channel? And charge for that?
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Possibly. I do however reading back in February when BT bought ESPN that the ESPN branded channel would stay on air until 2015. You'll maybe find that in the summer of 2015 ESPN will close and BT launch BT Sports 3.
As we've seen with other carriage deals it's possible that BT Sports 1 & 2 will remain in XL with ESPN dropping out. Virgin would then need to agree a new carriage deal for the inclusion of BT Sports 3 or maybe BT would prefer to keep the new channel exclusive to themselves?
The next 2 years will be very interesting. As BT continue to add more and more channels to BT Vision, we might see a service from BT in 2015 that genuinely rivals Virgin Media and SKY. The deal between SKY and HBO expires in 2015. BT Atlantic anyone
