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Originally Posted by vincerooney
I agree with your sentiment in a sense but all I know is I paid a lot less when sky owned all the football. sure they dictated the price but I got all EPL football, champions league, fa cup and England games under one subscription.
Now in theory I pay for two.
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True but I paid a lot less when all the sport was on FTA.
You want one subscription, I want sport back on FTA. Both are pipe dreams whose boats have long since sailed.
SKY created a premium sports market and ultimately gave birth to a beast of a market in the UK. Multiple subscriptions was an inevitable outcome, it's simple economics and it will continue to grow (perhaps a third sometime in the near future). However just be mindful of who got the ball rolling and who fuelled the demand when Sky Sports subscribers moan about multiple subs .
I actually hope to see many more multiple subscriptions in the future, e.g. divided by sport such as a cricket, tennis etc...
Just as XL customers are unhappy about paying an extra £3 for sport they don't watch the same goes for Cricket Fans, F1 fans, Tennis fans, NFL fans, etc.. who have to subscribe to SKY SPORTS who's price is over inflated due to the ridiculous amounts they have paid for PL. If you broke down a £35 (no idea of current cost) SKY Sports subscription by sport/competition you will probably be paying £25 for PL Football and about £2 for the cricket, £1 for F1 etc...
I like the growing US trend for MLB, NFL, NHL passes. You pay for the sport you watch and often can have an option to follow your team. However all the time SKY dominate the market it's unlikely to happen here, they have already restricted the NFL UK game pass by having them exclude many games SKY show and all the playoffs.
I know it's anti SKY chat again, I can't help myself they make it so easy
