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Originally Posted by jfman
Well, the company collapsed for two main reasons.
- Mass piracy of the service
- Paying too much for football rights
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You want to know the real reason it collapsed? They didn't listen to me!! I was on a special projects team for them and actually put forward a proposal for a dedicated wrestling channel were ecw wwf and wcw could be watched exclusively and ppvs and back catalogues, would have been great and one of the reasons I gave for looking at this route instead of the football was if you gave a toss about how Hull were getting on at Lincoln you'd be there! Sadly wasn't listened to and predictably we opted for footie, not sure it even made it to the desk of anyone important enough to do anything with it but things could have been so different if it had.
Two channels you've missed
Men and motors
Exclusive champions league channel
The latter was a massive draw and I think that convinced the top brass that people would pay for any football but embarrassingly sometimes the attendances were greater than the viewing figures for some matches
I also remember having sky sports 1 and 3 but not 2 hilariously and I think there was a granada plus in there to, rings a bell from somewhere