Merged:-Comcast makes Bid for Sky
07-02-2013, 20:31
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Lets hop its not too expensive
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07-02-2013, 20:44
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#1787
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by nstokes
Lets hop its not too expensive
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Let's see what price they come out with.
Remember for £10.00 per month Setanta Sports, depending on your TV provider, offered Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Sports News, Setanta Golf, Arsenal TV, Celtic TV, LFC TV and Rangers TV. Setanta peaked at 1.5 million subscribers which included Virgin Media XL customers.
BT Sports are only offering 2 dedicated channels. There is no way they can match the content provided by Setanta Sports. They won't be able to match the content offered by ESPN / ESPN America either.
Any more than £10.00 per month and BT Sports will simply price themselves out of the market. Setanta went down the pan, ESPN are leaving the UK. BT Sports won't last long if they try to rip people off.
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07-02-2013, 20:46
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Something will have to go in our. household because wont be able to afford sky sports,espn AND bt sports. I wonder what chances there are of sky bundling all 3 together at a affordable price?
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07-02-2013, 20:54
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by Chad
Let's see what price they come out with.
Remember for £10.00 per month Setanta Sports, depending on your TV provider, offered Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Sports News, Setanta Golf, Arsenal TV, Celtic TV, LFC TV and Rangers TV. Setanta peaked at 1.5 million subscribers which included Virgin Media XL customers.
BT Sports are only offering 2 dedicated channels. There is no way they can match the content provided by Setanta Sports. They won't be able to match the content offered by ESPN / ESPN America either.
Any more than £10.00 per month and BT Sports will simply price themselves out of the market. Setanta went down the pan, ESPN are leaving the UK. BT Sports won't last long if they try to rip people off.
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Setanta also had Racing UK as well Chad which is £20 a month now
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07-02-2013, 20:57
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#1790
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
I think £10 a month for 2 channels will be expensive so lets hope its lets than that. I reckon ill have to get rid of ESPN to be able to afford BT Sports which is a shame
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07-02-2013, 21:00
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by nstokes
I think £10 a month for 2 channels will be expensive so lets hope its lets than that. I reckon ill have to get rid of ESPN to be able to afford BT Sports which is a shame
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Personally l think it will be around £12 for subscribers on Sky and lets hope for Virgin it replaces the outgoing ESPN on the XL package.
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07-02-2013, 21:05
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
I'll put my house on it only being available in a pack on BT Vision why on earth would they give their major competitors a massive advantage , I believe it will be sold on a monthly subscription basis on both Sky and VM probably around the £10 mark however until we see a press release its pure speculation.
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07-02-2013, 23:30
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Yeah, BT will replace their 'free' ESPN with BT Sports, hopefully we can get the same on cable.
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08-02-2013, 16:58
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08-02-2013, 18:51
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Yeah, BT will replace their 'free' ESPN with BT Sports, hopefully we can get the same on cable.
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Hmmm didnt Espn get setantas rights which cost setantas £159 million. BT just paid 3 quarters of a billion £'s, so I doubt they will give them away for anywhere near what VM were paying ESPN.
VM will either drop the price of XL or increase it if they want to include BT sports.
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08-02-2013, 18:54
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by Bogof
VM will either drop the price of XL or increase it if they want to include BT sports.
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None of us will know what happens until a firm announcement is made.
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08-02-2013, 20:19
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by denphone
Personally l think it will be around £12 for subscribers on Sky and lets hope for Virgin it replaces the outgoing ESPN on the XL package.
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None of us will know what is going to happen untill an official anouncement is made.. 
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08-02-2013, 20:23
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I'll put my house on it only being available in a pack on BT Vision why on earth would they give their major competitors a massive advantage , I believe it will be sold on a monthly subscription basis on both Sky and VM probably around the £10 mark however until we see a press release its pure speculation.
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Your`e probably right although sky do carry alot of clout and may put preasure on BT or offer them a sweetner of some kind?
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11-02-2013, 10:55
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Yes very interesting MM.
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