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Originally Posted by Gavin-D
Breaking: Premier League TV rights to be probed by Ofcom
Ofcom has opened an investigation into how the Premier League sells live TV media rights for Premier League football matches in the UK.
The investigation will be carried out under the Competition Act.
It follows a complaint from Virgin Media, which was submitted to Ofcom in September.
Ofcom investigates where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting an agreement may be intended to prevent, restrict or distort competition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30095012 |
Like others have said, it'll probably end up biting us in the bum. Whilst ever they continue to sell packs of games, the consumer will have to pay 2 or more providers to watch all the games.
The only way it would ever be better for the consumer is like it states in the article for both BT and Sky (and any other interested parties) to get access to all the games. This would then give real competition as consumers could choose which provider they want to use to watch the footy and would drive prices down as they compete for business.