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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Agreed. That’s why consolidation and some reimagining is required.
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What they'll do is bundle, just as "Sky multi channels" tied together channels you don't watch with those you do. It generated the biggest pie to be sliced up for the content providers.
Channels always had the opportunity to go it alone on Sky and various cable platforms. We even briefly had "top up tv" on DTT.
The reality is the pay-tv market is a crowded one in the UK and streaming as a technology marginally, but not significantly, lowers the barrier to entry for content providers who want to take end to end control. Netflix and Amazon have hoovered up what new revenue exists in this space.
If you want to come in and "blow Sky out the water" for football rights it's going to hit your profit margins for the whole period of the contract.