On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:14:01 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Sky being a prime example of private enterprise run riot - where
only
the customer suffers.

I was under impression that Sky had a reasonably good customer
service reputation.

It's primarily the Premier League that's been allowed to run riot
and
act as an unregulated cartel.

Only because the likes of Sky have given in to their demands. Knowing
they can simply pass on extra costs to their subscribers.

Hum, The PL offer various "packages". ISTR that the the latest round
of package auctions had seven packages divving up 168 live
matches(*). What the purchasers pay is up to them...

Rumour has it that both Sky and BT are a little concerned that they
might have "over spent". Remember the 5.136 billion they paid goes to
the PL. They still have to provide the coverage and *all* Premierl
League matches are covered, they might not be live in the UK but they
are live to the world.

At least Sky also support and promote things by sponsering competions
and trophies and give these airtime. BT pretty much just buy the
rights to big events, stick a bit of branding on the clean host feed
and "transmit" it. Fairly sure BT Sport bring in Sunset and Vine to
do any actual programme production, like their PL live matches.

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Cheers
Dave.