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sky win 3 premiership tv packages

  • 28-04-2006 5:17pm
    #1
    channelsurfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 742 ✭✭✭


    according to reports sky have won 3 of the 6 tv packages but they are the weaker ones. Another round of bidding is expected for the other 3. looks like its gonna cost an awful lot more to watch premiership soccer from 2007 onwards if ntl do get the other 3 packages .


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  • #2
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds32166.html

    Link for anyone interested; not a surprise, and they're still in the running for two more, in other words watching premiership matches is unlikely to get any more expensive than expected given the EU ruling; there's every chance a FTA channel could pick up the final package (although setanta are probably the best bet), and IMO most people already with Sky would prefer to miss the odd match (or go the pub) rather than pay a large amount for a handful of games; if the games were split fifty/fifty (and who knows, they still might be), that's a different story.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    If Cable get it then most people can't get those. And even fewer people have Sky & Cable. Though those on Cable get sky Sports.

    It was a nutty way to handle the competition issue. From a selfish perspective I fortuately don't watch any Football at all.


  • #4
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    watty wrote:
    It was a nutty way to handle the competition issue. From a selfish perspective I fortuately don't watch any Football at all.

    I don't think it was a solution at all, to be honest... I mean, I'm not saying I have a better idea (frankly I haven't given it much thought at all), but if Sky do get five out of six packages, is that really all that different than before, especially for Irish viewers who are already enjoying a handful of premiership matches on RTE or Setanta for nothing (or the price of cable)?


  • #5
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    If NTL did win the 3 licenses, there is no reason why they couldn't form their own sports channels and sell them on Sky Satellite, just like Sky does on cable.


  • #6
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    bk wrote:
    If NTL did win the 3 licenses, there is no reason why they couldn't form their own sports channels and sell them on Sky Satellite, just like Sky does on cable.

    And if ITV get it they can bring back ITV Sport :D


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  • #7
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Similiar thread here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51284292#post51284292


    I think they will get 5 of the 6 available because they can.
    As other pointed out in the other thread and indeed here it could push the price of watching premiership soccer up.
    Kippy


  • #8
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    flogen wrote:
    And if ITV get it they can bring back ITV Sport :D
    that would make me lol


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