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Originally Posted by Chris
It isn't cricket at all. It is the highly competitive business of pay TV. Sky has invested money in an exclusive product that it hopes will attract customers. People taking their pay TV through a service provider other than Sky have no right to expect Sky's own channels to appear on it. For them to do so, a commercial agreement that is acceptable to the channel owner and the platform owner to be in place.
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Highly competitive is extremely subjective. Sky have built up a dominant position based on years of no competition. They have continually abused this dominant position to the detriment of customers and competitors. This is the reason OFCOM stepped in (eventually, and in my opinion FAR too late) and introduced the various rate cards that now exist.