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Originally Posted by jj20x
Yes, of course, but the point I was making was that if Tesco entered into such an agreement with the fuel companies it would be a cartel operating in restraint of trade and the courts would swiftly bring that arrangement to an end. Why is the tv market so different?
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It's not. There is no restraint of trade here. Sky hasn't bought up all the TV channels, there are hundreds available elsewhere. On VM, Freeview, BT, Talk Talk et al.
If (say) Shell decided to close it's UK forecourts and sell its petrol exclusively at Tesco, there'd be sadness at any redundancies but the arrangement would go ahead without question.
That's all Sky are doing. They're not denying us all TV, they're simply denying us a flavour (for want of a better word) of it to encourage us to use their platform rather than VMs.