Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 01-01-2020, 15:44   #9517
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
As a boxing fan I'm inclined to think yes, it is extremely unfair. Sky/BT on average are paying something like £9m per game for the Premiership (Amazon are paying an absolute pittance but we will leave that aside for now). Yet they can't find £20m or so to put major boxing events on the main channels?

Essentially idiots - like me - pay for it and they realise there's a demand there. PPV football has been tested (albeit alongside a subscription option) with Sky's PremPlus service, on cable and as far back as ITV Digital.

Albeit it wasn't the 'main' games of each weekend, the subscription option got numbers and the individual match purchases were miniscule. I suppose ultimately football drives £70+ a month subscriptions and boxing doesn't.
Agree totally - only answer is to stop subscribing to Ppv events.
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