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Originally Posted by muppetman11
But you aren't watching the same amount , this coming season will see more Premier League games available than ever before.
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2004-2007 was the last time that Sky held all live rights. They had 138 matches.
In 2016-2019 Sky holds live rights to 126 matches and BT has 42 matches making a total of 168 matches.
The average Sky Sports subscriber watches 30 Premier League matches a year.
So:
- Splitting the rights has resulted in a Sky Sports subscriber getting 12 fewer matches in their subscription.
- It has also given them a choice - get 42 matches at a lower price instead of paying for 126 matches of which you'll only watch a quarter of.
- But if you wanted to watch the same number of matches as before ie 138 matches then you would require two subscriptions.
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Originally Posted by denphone
l see your point Andrew but surely there comes a point when Ofcom should step in and caps prices to a certain rise each year instead of companies basically racking up prices to a level where they think they can get way with it and hoping that many customers don't notice the big inflation busting price rises.
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Regulation of the markets is the responsibility of the
Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) ; confusingly not Ofcom.
Their responsibility is to ensure that markets function correctly and players in a market don't operate cartels and too many companies don't merge etc. They're in the news at the moment as it is likely that they will force a combined Ladbrokes-Coral to sell some shops.
If companies are acting noncompetitively or a market sector is not working well then you can inform them and they will investigate. They might delegate it down to Ofcom to do the actual investigation as they have the knowledge but markets are the CMA's responsibility.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the...market-problem