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Old 01-07-2014, 11:28   #2244
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 2
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Originally Posted by azbazlol View Post
I'm sorry but I may be new to all go this but when did this become the sky sports forum. Just coming personally don't take much thought into taking sky sports and most people on here don't have it either so is there ANY NEWS (except from "summer") on entertainment channels launching as I live in Scotland and we are ALREADY IN THE SUMMER AND school holidays??

Any news in disney hd channels yet either as media boy did seem to think June but obviously they aren't launching in June, Virgin media really have to pull there finger out as all we have had is false hope and price increases!!!
Possible price rises coming soon on Sky Sports and such matters are relevant to this thread, whether or not you personally have Sky Sports.

A full list of channels coming is on Media Boy's regular update elsewhere on this thread.

Most of the 'false hope' is actually not emanating from Virgin Media!

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Originally Posted by dwarfofpoison View Post
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.
I think the mistake is thinking that things will remain as they are now. Sky and BT are bitter enemies at present (at least that's how some would portray it) but financial reality will come into the equation at some time in the future.

Sky and BT cannot go increasing their bids exponentially and there will come a point at which the two will have to do some sort of a deal in order to bring the price down. Competition does normally rectify anomalies although this does seem to be dragging on a bit.

I am not aware that there is anything to prevent Sky and BT presenting a joint bid for the premier league rights. If that was still higher than other bids submitted, why would this not be accepted?
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