Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 18-09-2012, 23:27   #130
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by cdf90 View Post
I very much doubt BT Sports would be added to the XL pack, even though I'd like it to.

Setanta and ESPN joined the XL pack for guaranteed income, BT are certainly not short of cash at the moment, and allowing a rival service to not charge customers a premium for the service certainly wouldn't help their ambition to drive up subscribers.
I thought ESPN went into xl because Virgin faced a backlash from it's subscribers who were angry at losing the free Premier League coverage? I actually thought Virgin had been taking a loss on this?
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