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Originally Posted by Doug P

It has to be accepted that much that is on Sky Sports, and indeed BT would not be shown at all on terrestrial if the pay channels did not exist.....

If Pay TV providers did not exist then the rights would be much cheaper and would be seen much more widely on the terrestrial channels and thus we would not have this relentless arms race where the price for the sports rights and other content goes higher and higher and thus in the end its the customer who pays the price and even those who don't subscribe to the premium channels end up paying the price as well.