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jfman · 27-10-2018, 23:55

Oh I agree it's ridiculously expensive, but BT aren't going to recover £400m p/a in Champions League rights (until 2021) and £300m p/a for Premiership rights (until 2022) easily reducing the price point by much on the Sky platform unless Sky decide to subsidise them to some extent. I suppose Sky are saving on their Premiership contract from next year, so there might be scope to subsidise BT from that money.

Optimistically Virgin might contribute £100m in their wholesale deal.

27-10-2018, 23:55	#2508
jfman Architect of Ideas Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11,146	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018) Oh I agree it's ridiculously expensive, but BT aren't going to recover £400m p/a in Champions League rights (until 2021) and £300m p/a for Premiership rights (until 2022) easily reducing the price point by much on the Sky platform unless Sky decide to subsidise them to some extent. I suppose Sky are saving on their Premiership contract from next year, so there might be scope to subsidise BT from that money. Optimistically Virgin might contribute £100m in their wholesale deal.