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[Media Boy UK]

Now we know where BT are getting some of the money for Sports rights from:

BT said it was looking to cut costs by around £200m a year and that it was expecting £400m in "specific restructuring costs" in the current financial year.

BT said this would involve some "people costs" as some employees would be given "the option to pursue other activities". But no compulsory redundancies were expected.

More info @ http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2013...48-bt-results/

[Mad Max]

Maybe it's time people started going to see live local sport, instead of spending up to £650.00 per year to watch it on TV! In fact if you also have the likes of Boxnation, and Premier Sports, you could be paying almost £900.00 per year for televised sport. Crazy

Couldn't agree more!

[smallclone]

I go and see my team once every 2 weeks too (spend about £1500 a year doing so). But that's a minority sport. I also want to watch football and cricket.

Because I am a sports fan. Not just a fan of one sport.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

If there was no truth in it whatsoever what would be the point of having the channel exclusive on the Sky platform ? Sky are a business and as such are in the game of making money.

which makes the decision to with hold the channels a joke MM as they make lot more money letting others have them

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Originally Posted by coulsontom

Everyone's saying BT will make losses on the Sport side of things.

However, they probably expect to for the first few years, and as others have said, prob hope to take more rights and end up in a 50/50 style share situation with Sky (which would result in BT surely then charging, and presumably sky having to lower their prices)

But if BT get a good increase in viewers, which is likely, as they have 5m Broadband subscribers now, plus the inevitable people they entice, plus those who subscribe who used to have ESPN.

It is logical to predict they will have more viewers than Sky Sports. They could therefore market the advertising slots very competitively and charge more than if they had subscribers paying.

Say they had 1.5m paying £15 that's £22.5m
BT is paying £246m per season. Subscriptions wouldn't even scrap the surface anyway.

BT made a profit of £675m last year.

They're not eating into that too much are they?

price will continue only to go up no chance they come down

[BexTech]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

IF l am not wrong VM customers using phone lines - the calls goes through a BT Exchange, am l right. where as Sky BB goes via satellite. I may be wrong.

You will be wrong.

Sky's broadband goes through the BT exchange too.

[Lostlam]

I have just been told by someone who works for BT, that BT Sports will not be coming to VM at all. If this is true, VM could be in for a wake up call.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Lostlam

I have just been told by someone who works for BT, that BT Sports will not be coming to VM at all. If this is true, VM could be in for a wake up call.

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

[nstokes]

Originally Posted by denphone

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

I agree with you Den

[Lostlam]

Originally Posted by denphone

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

Hope so mate, but VM are slowly losing me. Their only selling point that is keeping me is TIVO, as there prices keep rising.

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Originally Posted by nstokes

I agree with you Den

I thought so, but the person seemed quite adamant.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Lostlam

Hope so mate, but VM are slowly losing me. Their only selling point that is keeping me is TIVO, as there prices keep rising.

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I thought so, but the person seemed quite adamant.

l am afraid employees have no knowledge of the in and outs of boardrooms and frankly he is just making it up.

[Lostlam]

Originally Posted by denphone

l am afraid employees have no knowledge of the in and outs of boardrooms and frankly he is just making it up.

Guess so, but I would shocked if what he was saying is true. We will all know soon enough I guess.

Also, what is happening with the Brazilian league as BT have it, but their channel doesn't go live till 1st August. Does this mean some of it will be shown on ESPN till then?

[BenMcr]

Just seen this on The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05...ports_details/ which points this out

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...4485/related/1

Will BT Sport have multi-room?

No, multi-room isn't available for BT Sport. If you have BT TV and Sky in the same house, you can only have BT Sport on one of them. The Sky Multiroom service can't be used to access BT Sport on more than one Sky set-top box.

I think YouView is still one per household so they'll not want Sky having multiroom, hopefully that doesn't effect Virgin negotiations.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by denphone

Rest assured he is talking a load of cobblers.

So that would naturally mean your also talking cobblers as you also have no inside knowledge either way , so its not advisable to mislead people asking the question. BenMcr has already provided a link you can register with for updates on the situation , so let VM keep the customer informed rather than making random assumptions without the source to back it up , its not at all helpful.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35566926-post940.html

[johnasimmons]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

So that would naturally mean your also talking cobblers as you also have no inside knowledge either way , so its not advisable to mislead people asking the question. BenMcr has already provided a link you can register with for updates on the situation , so let VM keep the customer informed rather than making random assumptions without the source to back it up , its not at all helpful.