30-09-2008, 09:42
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Sky may be forced to sell on football and movies at reduced prices
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Originally Posted by Grauniad
Ofcom has said that BSkyB has "market power" over live Premier League football and Hollywood films and has launched a consultation that could force it to make the content available to all other pay TV operators at more competitive prices.
Ofcom, publishing the long-awaited findings of its review of the UK pay-TV market, said that BSkyB's dominant position in the market means it has "an incentive to limit the distribution of this content to competitors, in a manner that favours its own satellite platform".
However Ofcom, which launched the investigation after a joint complaint from BT, Setanta, Top Up TV and Virgin Media, rejected calls by BSkyB's rivals that the issue should be referred to the competition commission.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/30/ofcom.bskyb
Info from Guardian Media.
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