Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 02-05-2022, 17:49   #10891
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
It wasn't to this extent and the notion that venture capital or Silicon Valley would throw money down the toilet in the way they have with streaming services is fanciful.
The fragmentation of sport was already happening on pay TV. Sky had already split its channels in that way in preparation for any loss of rights.

Your expectation that the status quo would have been maintained had the streamers not come along is, well, fanciful.

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The consumers who now have to buy multiple services at higher cost than incumbent pay-tv packages?
Except that they are not higher unless you opt to subscribe to a multitude of more expensive streamers.
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