15-10-2020, 19:29
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Rise above the players
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wokingham
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by jfman
Not necessarily. Sky/BT could drop games depending on quotas to let more attractive games go to PPV - I presume as it's their platforms they get a cut. It also allows them to trial market testing of pay per view football.
Either way, it's not the straightforward innocuous gift from the Premier League to customers you portray it to be. It's very much a Trojan horse, as boxing fans will testify.
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Neither Sky nor BT have said they are doing that. Until it actually happens I will regard that as a conspiracy theory.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that theory is incorrect!
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