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Sky challenged over film rights

  • 19-08-2011 12:49PM
    #1
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭


    Looks like Sky's traditional dominance of the Pay TV movie rights may go the same way as the Sky Sports/Premiership rights

    Link to story on Breaking News here

    I'm not necessarily sure if it's a good thing. I can see the point of more competition = better innovation, but cheaper prices.. I'm not convinced.

    I don't think the football rights issue has worked out that way whereas you previously paid your Sky Sports sub and got everything that was available (not counting the Premiership Plus experiment), now you have Sky, Setanta and ESPN (who ok are now included in Sky Sports subs) with seperate (not cheap) additional fees for each.

    Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    yes it may lead to the price of each film channel being cheaper but over all the consumer would have to pay more to still have access to ALL the channels.


  • #3
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    It's not just the TV rights, but also the Video on Demand rights that are causing hassle. Sky pay something like £280 Million a year to the Studios for both the TV and Subscription Video On Demand (The €45 you can pay for the Movie Package on Sky Go) rights to the films. As a result, VOD services similar to Netflix are struggling to enter the market here and in the UK. Lovefilm in the UK, who run a Subscription VOD service, have called for a change too as they are finding it hard to compete.

    Edit: It is said that around 5 Million subscribe to Sky Movies. At £16 extra a month for the 2 Sky Movies Packages, that's £80 Million a month Sky are making from Sky Movies. Annually, that's £960 Million. So they are making almost £700 Million profit. Now that's assuming all 5 Million subscribers take the 2 Movie Packages.


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