Merged:-Comcast makes Bid for Sky
02-06-2014, 17:29
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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That's quite big news as it shows they're going to stick around despite being caught in the crossfire between BT Sport and Sky.
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They are aiming for the sports that Sky/BT are unlikely to go for. It will be interesting once (if expected) bEIN Sports enter the UK tv market. From what I've read they will blow BT & Sky out of the water.
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02-06-2014, 17:32
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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That's quite big news as it shows they're going to stick around despite being caught in the crossfire between BT Sport and Sky.
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Sorry but l would not pay £7.99 for the rubbish they have at the moment.
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02-06-2014, 17:37
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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They are aiming for the sports that Sky/BT are unlikely to go for. It will be interesting once (if expected) bEIN Sports enter the UK tv market. From what I've read they will blow BT & Sky out of the water.
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Trouble is BT and Sky are encroaching on Premier Sports' territory. Sky has added GAA and has displaced Premier Sports from the Super League (rughby).
I know beIN Sport is not a 100% commercial operation but I don't think that they will enter the UK as it is too crowded a market. As well as BT and Sky firing on all cylinders, Discovery now has raised its stake in Eurosport from 20% to 51% and promises investment in rights too. I think beIN could find some far better territories than the UK.
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02-06-2014, 17:41
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Trouble is BT and Sky are encroaching on Premier Sports' territory. Sky has added GAA and has displaced Premier Sports from the Super League (rughby).
I know beIN Sport is not a 100% commercial operation but I don't think that they will enter the UK as it is too crowded a market. As well as BT and Sky firing on all cylinders, Discovery now has raised its stake in Eurosport from 20% to 51% and promises investment in rights too. I think beIN could find some far better territories than the UK.
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The plan for bEIN Sports was to secure the rights for North Africa and the Middle East which they have done, The next step is Europe (they already operate in France).
We could see 3 Broadcasters in the next PL bidding rights
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02-06-2014, 17:42
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Sorry but l would not pay £7.99 for the rubbish they have at the moment.
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Sure, it's a niche channel and won't appeal to most.
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03-06-2014, 14:04
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
ITV Encore HD now on Sky EPG , changes as follows
HD Subs
122 Sky Living+1
123 ITV Encore HD
193 ITV Encore+1
217 Sky1
221 Sky Arts 1
222 Sky Livingit
223 Sky Livingit+1
297 Sky Arts 2
298 ITV Encore
SD Subs
122 Sky Living+1
123 ITV Encore
193 ITV Encore+1
217 Sky1 HD
221 Sky Arts 1 HD
222 Sky Livingit
223 Sky Livingit+1
297 Sky Arts 2 HD
298 ITV Encore HD
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03-06-2014, 15:01
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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Not going to happen, by doing so you weaken the next bid in three years' time as the defeated party could throw in the towel or decide it's not worth bidding. Do this a couple of times and you are just left with one bidder.
Also, there's not much advantage to buying the Premier League across Italy and Germany as like England, each country is only prepared to pay serious money for its own league.
BT Sport's current rights have gained it 5m subscribers including 1.8m via VM wholesale. If it won massive Premiership rights then it would be unable to bundle it free with broadband. Which is the whole point of it in the first place!
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European Law prevents it as well - hence the bundled system of bidding. No one company can hold all five bundles.
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Forgot to add Premier Sports is planning on going HD this summer
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You might actually be able to see the picture now rather than just a blur 
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03-06-2014, 15:19
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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They are aiming for the sports that Sky/BT are unlikely to go for. It will be interesting once (if expected) bEIN Sports enter the UK tv market. From what I've read they will blow BT & Sky out of the water.
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There's always someone going to "blow Sky out the water" no one ever does. Last time it was apparently going to be al jazzera. But the came out publicly an said competing with Sky is pointless for them. As if they did win any football rights they would have to pay far too much for it.
Business is business and no company will throw £3billion/£4billion or almost $7.5billion just to get 120 EPL games a year for 3 years. Sky make it up as you need to have the basic channels to get Skysports an they are also very successful at up selling broadband and phoneline. So a skysports customer becomes a full tv package/bb/phoneline customer aswell. BT only paid £700million over 3 years and it already gave them millions more subscribers an they have the added bonus broadband sign ups.
EPL TV rights don't sell massively outside of the UK.
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03-06-2014, 16:04
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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There's always someone going to "blow Sky out the water" no one ever does. Last time it was apparently going to be al jazzera. But the came out publicly an said competing with Sky is pointless for them. As if they did win any football rights they would have to pay far too much for it.
Business is business and no company will throw £3billion/£4billion or almost $7.5billion just to get 120 EPL games a year for 3 years. Sky make it up as you need to have the basic channels to get Skysports an they are also very successful at up selling broadband and phoneline. So a skysports customer becomes a full tv package/bb/phoneline customer aswell. BT only paid £700million over 3 years and it already gave them millions more subscribers an they have the added bonus broadband sign ups.
EPL TV rights don't sell massively outside of the UK.
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You were saying.
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The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.[4] In the 2010–11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35,363, the second highest of any professional football league behind the German Bundesliga,[5] and stadium occupancy was 92.2% capacity.[6] The Premier League ranked second in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years.[7]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League
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03-06-2014, 16:26
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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The price the international rights sell for shows just how popular the EPL is abroad.
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03-06-2014, 20:48
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
Sky and Virgin Media EPG support coming to Xbox One ahead of World Cup.
http://www.cable.co.uk/news/sky-and-...cup-801725359/
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03-06-2014, 21:57
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
SKY Sports 5 definitely on it's way. Also looks like a cracking broadband offer to.
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04-06-2014, 08:28
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
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SKY Sports 5 definitely on it's way. Also looks like a cracking broadband offer to.
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Hmmmm, the only problem I see there is BTSPORT have the UEFA Champions league rights exclusively from 2015 for 3 years. They paid £900million.
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04-06-2014, 16:51
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Re: General Sky TV Discussion
ITV channels now live on Sky Go
http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...in_the_service
On Demand ITV content on Sky Go as well
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ITV’s brand new drama channel, ITV Encore, will also join Sky Go when it launches on 9 June. Exclusive to Sky TV customers, ITV Encore will be the place to watch some of the most talked-about dramas on TV including Whitechapel and Broadchurch. As well as watching ITV Encore live, Sky Go users will also be able to catch-up on missed episodes or choose from a library of ITV drama box sets. On demand content from other ITV channels will join the service later in 2014.
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