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Originally Posted by muppetman11
He's not probably right he's definitely right. The setup before was excellent in my opinion. Allow FTA broadcasters to bid for the games ITV showed and pay TV broadcasters to bid for the rest. At least that way we'd get either BBC , ITV , C4 or C5 with some games and either BT Sport or Sky Sports with the rest.
Whilst I understand these organisations want to make money they also need to think of promotion of the game , not everybody can afford pay TV.
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It will interesting to see how this develops. If BT successfully bid for ITV (recently rumoured to be a target for them in next 2 years) then you could see a very different strategy going forward with them showcasing selected BT Sport content on ITV.
At the time of wining the CL rights BT were also looking at biding for CH5 I think that's probably the original thought for where to show the fta games.