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Originally Posted by Superblade7
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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Aye sadly i can see it going
sky sports- going up slowly over the next 5 years
BT- going up to £15+ and BT refusing to go back into the XL package after 2015 stating the amount of coverage they have
sky sports will refuse to go down in price as it'll be admitting they've been devalued. They'll start using "buzz words" to try and fight it such as
"never as much premier league football"
"the home to football in england with more coverage than ever"
"the greatest league in the world...gets BETTER"
or some other cheesy rubbish to stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the loss of rights and any price change. probably if theyre quizzed they'll say
"it was already cheap enough with the champions league footage which we actually didnt make people pay towards...25.99 a month is excellent value for our customers and remains so"
and we'll all continue to pay whilst forking out an extra tenner to BT sports and the cycle continues