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The UK's media regulator Ofcom has told Sky it should offer to sell rights to football games and Hollywood films to other broadcasters at a fair price. The investigation into pay TV was begun after complaints were made by BT, Virgin, Setanta and Top Up TV. Ofcom reckons that consumers make their choices of which service to go …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    sky sports cost

    Doesn't take a genius to calculate the cost of sky sports - simply divide the cost of rights / punters watching it + distribution overhead. I worked it a while ago that every sky sports punter was paying £20 for football per month - has anyone got a more up to date analysis?

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  2. Hairy
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    Slightly unclear article....

    The Ofcom findings relate to pay per view rights on specific games/films which are negotiated separately from broadcast rights, it also relates to Sky having to offer whole channels for sale to rivals at competitive prices, i.e. Virgin should be able to show Sky Sports 1 for a reasonable price (to virgin)

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  3. Mark
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    re: It shouldn't go thru

    "At the end of the day the companies are meant to compete."

    How can they when one of them buys exclusive use of all matches?

    At the end of the day, a monopoly breaks the free market that you love so much. A free market to operate needs a fully informed customer. Something that is forgotten in the spin and lies known as "marketing". And deemed necessary and wholly acceptable.

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