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Question about Pay Per View

  • 10-03-2003 3:56pm
    #1
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've often wondered how Sky etc can get away with advertising on Pay Per View channels when you're already paying for 1. Subs and 2. the chosen PPV event. Surely if you're paying out that much money you should be getting an Ad free channel????


Comments

  • #2
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,604 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    They pay millions for sporting rights and they need a much money back as possible. thats why you get ads.

    there is no ads on the movie channels, the only ppv station with ads are the sports ones.


  • #3
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭LFCFan


    Originally posted by irishgeo
    They pay millions for sporting rights and they need a much money back as possible. thats why you get ads.

    there is no ads on the movie channels, the only ppv station with ads are the sports ones.

    Sky have had the rights for Premiership Football for years and only recently started charging on Pay Per View. How does this fit in with your theory?


  • #4
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,604 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    true they had them for years but the latest deal which they were they able to include pay per view in it.

    The first deal they had did not mention ppv only the second deal did so thats why they charge for it now.

    Its fits into a bigger theory i have, they slowly wean you into watching football all the time and after youre addicted they make you pay more for it.

    Cleared up spelling and puncation the spcace bar is dodgy on the computer i was working on.Sorry


  • #5
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Its not even that. The latest Premier League contract is the first to have PPV events, but that has more to do with the digital technology and the ease of how you can book an event than anything else.


  • #6
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Originally posted by irishgeo
    slowly wean youinto watching football allthe time and after youre addicted they make you pay more for it.

    to be fair you are still getting your 66 live games on Sky Sports. the PPV games are extra and if PPV wasn't there you would not see these extra games


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  • #7
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Why are there Ads on SUBSCRIPTION TV at all....
    Either the TV should be "free" paid with by Ads, or you pay for the TV and don't have Ads. Pay TV costs LOTS and seems to have MORE adds than TV3, UTV, RTE1, NET2, C4...
    Or at least only ads between the programs and not in the middle. I especially hate the ad break a couple of minutes just before the end of a programme.

    I had Disney for a while and it is really wierd, breaks in the programs for "fake" adverts! (I.e. self promotional material of the kind BBC puts between programmes).


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