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Originally Posted by jfman
The problem is that, often ignored on the forum, the streaming market is a subset of the television market as a whole.
Someone has to make a significant move at some point or another or else Sky seamlessly move into the steaming market and plant themselves down there. If someone is waiting assuming Sky are unable to do this and waiting for them to fail (and then EPL rights collapse in value) they’d be as well watching coastal erosion and hoping to see something significant.
Someone somewhere has to square the circle of getting folk to spend £30 a month in addition to everything else they are already paying.
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Agreed. And through Now, Sky is in the streaming market anyway.
What's happening now is the emergence of a potential all-round competitor on the content front to Sky in the form of Warner Discovery. There currently isn't another provider in the UK that does this.
However, if it launches HBO Max in 2025, it will be late to the streaming show in the U although t will have the rather smaller Discovery + offering. What to do? If the price is right; which depends on BT's enthusiasm for sport; it may decide that some Premier League rights will give it a helping hand. BT may even decide to contribute BT Sport for a stake in the new Warner Discovery entity.