Interesting that VM offered/agreed to pay their carriage fees upfront; cable companies usually pay them monthly just like us!
Maybe this was the deal breaker that brought us the channel at the last minute?
The carriage costs for BT Sport are currently £120m and VM is said to have approx 1.8M XL pack subscribers.
TMLeafs has been doing some interesting number crunching in another thread:
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Originally Posted by TMLeafs
120M/1.8M/12 = £5.56 per XL sub per month
BT sport pay close to 1 Billion pounds per year for all their sport. That fixed money from virgin per year definitely helps them out otherwise all other ways of subbing BT sport will increase in cost.
To get it on sky without BT Broadband it's already £21.99 SD £26.99 HD when it started it was around 15 pounds.
If XL lost BT sport and lets say they start charging 20 pounds per month they would need at least 500,000 subs to get the same amount of money. With Sky Sports take up is low on virgin media, though it has been along time since we have seen any figures it's definitely the best option for BT.
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So, the 'free' BT Sport channels actually costs us XL subscribers about £5.56 per month...