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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
I don't think the USA Network or the NBC Sports parts will happen. The latter because there is no point in introducing another brand when you you own the UK market leader in Pay Sports. And I've not seen the USA Network name mentioned in even the US news stuff I look at for quite some time, their shows don't get mentioned these days, let alone in the UK where I've not seen their name since the early days of Channel 5 on the end of shows they bought back then.
It costs money to introduce new brands and most media companies are consolidating around just a few brands these days. I just don't see it.
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Aye unless they're going to dip their toes into the british sport market? A bit like why why BT still have the ESPN channel. Do NBC Sports have any rights for sports which the UK doesn't have which they can show in the UK under their current deals?
I've never really understood why sport rights are split up so much. Back in the days of eurosport it was the same sport channel in most of europe showing the same shows. Now i know we've moved back from there with sports wanting more money etc but it feels in this instance we've gone back in the last 30 years for uniting sports rights.
Could NBC be trying to do this with a combined channel which shows the same coverage in both the UK and USA at the same time? Is it even possible?