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Superblade7 · 10-11-2013, 08:12

Hi guys,

Interesting read of all the posts about the BT Sports deal for the CL/EL. I think this definitely shows that BT are in it for the long haul and I think they've probably caught Sky on the back foot with this one as the CL was one of their 'golden eggs'.

The loss of the CL will definitely devalue Sky Sports from 2015 so it will be interesting to see what they do to react? Reduce prices, obtain alternative content?

Definitely interesting times ahead and I think, as others have said, with the onslaught Sky are facing with BT, Netflix, Blinkbox, Lovefilm, etc then hopefully they'll now view VM as a bit of an ally to wholesale their content through and finally give us the channels a lot of people on here would like such as Atlantic and the additional Sports HD channels.

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Superblade7 Inactive Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sheffield Services: Sky Q 2TB & Sky Q Mini (Box Sets with Cinema & Sports HD) with VM VIVID 100Mbps Broadband & M Phone Posts: 582	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5. Hi guys, Interesting read of all the posts about the BT Sports deal for the CL/EL. I think this definitely shows that BT are in it for the long haul and I think they've probably caught Sky on the back foot with this one as the CL was one of their 'golden eggs'. The loss of the CL will definitely devalue Sky Sports from 2015 so it will be interesting to see what they do to react? Reduce prices, obtain alternative content? Definitely interesting times ahead and I think, as others have said, with the onslaught Sky are facing with BT, Netflix, Blinkbox, Lovefilm, etc then hopefully they'll now view VM as a bit of an ally to wholesale their content through and finally give us the channels a lot of people on here would like such as Atlantic and the additional Sports HD channels.