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[QUOTE=dwarfofpoison;35710871]I fail to see how anybody feels that there is ever going to be any real competition for sports on TV. All the rights are currently sold exclusively to individual providers whether it be premier league football, cricket, formula 1, darts or generally any sport that can garner enough television viewers (FTA national treasures like Wimbledon & the World Cup protected by law are another matter).

Until the same rights are sold to several different providers there is absolutely no chance of any real competition. The only competition is for the sports rights themselves between providers, which in turn can only mean price increases for the viewer as the bidding wars become astronomical![/QUOTE

I agree. As it stands a football fan has to subscribe to both Sky sports and BT sports if he wants to see all the live televised games regardless of cost. The only thing that keeps the cost down a little is not wanting to price themselves out of the market,and Sky are in danger of doing just that if they put their prices up as much as has been suggested.
BT scores a bit of a winner by offering free sport to its broadband customers and by being included in virgins xl package.