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Originally Posted by vincerooney
It's only a matter of time a third provider will enter the bidding for PL rights and get some of the rights. Sky sports with reduced premier league games won't decrease their subscription prices and would hark on about PGA tour golf, WWE wrestling and 50 Premier league games. BT Sports if they had reduced coverage would just bang their drum about the rights they hold whilst the new provider would smack on a ten pound a month fee as well.
Its inevitable that another 3rd provider will enter the game shortly and prices will go up even further. It's utterly depressing how expensive football has got since they forced the rights to be split up.
Great for greedy premier league, great for other sports providers to make money, horrible decision for the customer
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It's not a horrible decision for the customer. Sky and BT simply can not justify not passing on savings to customers. If Sky/BT pay less than they did on the previous auction for less packages, it means they have (a) saved money from their budget and (b) paid less than was paid last time round. There should be no excuses for not reducing prices. If they choose to pump more funds into other channels, then people should cancel sports and tell Sky they do not want their sports subscriptions to subsidize content on other channels which we all pay for in our basic package prices.
Customers will only suffer if they choose to pay more for many, many, many, average to boring football games on other channels. If customers choose to be ripped off, it is up to them!!!!
The power is in the subscribers hands. I will continue to say that I have no sympathy for any possible rising sporting costs.