Thread: General Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
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Old 28-12-2021, 19:33   #1970
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Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2021)

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Originally Posted by Raider999 View Post
Nice idea, unfortunately nobody is going to pay hundreds of millions for sports rights and give them away on Freeview (how would they recover that money?) - if they did I would be forever grateful.

The best we can hope for is that the greedy sports such as EPL gave rights to 1 game a round to terrestrial channels - however again very unlikely to happen.
I didn't say it would be free on freeview, but that it wouldn't be free (premium channel) yet not streamed

but of course, it won't happen . . just as the greedy football authorities (and SKY) will never relinquish their grasp on anything that says "sod the fans"
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