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Originally Posted by Raider999
Or even worse a 3rd, 4th etc bidder gets involved - spreading the rights across at least 1 other supplier.
End result subscribers have to pay for another subscription to watch all of the broadcast games.
Competition does not work in the subscribers interest - it merely drives up the price.
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True however next time the rights are sold the amount of games will go up from the the current 168 to at least 190 as a result of a deal the Premiership struck with Ofcom. There is a suggestion that the total amount of games on offer will actually be over 200.
There is room for a 3rd party other than SKY and BT to come in, win a package or 2, and not decrease the amount of games current being shown on SKY and BT.
In that scenario, if you are a SKY or BT subscribers, you're not actually losing out at all in terms of numbers of games. You will however have the option to watch even more games than before if you're prepared to pay extra to the new 3rd party.