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BT SPORTS CHANNEL ON YOUVIEW TV
“The ability to bundle together great content on our most advanced set-top box will underpin our aim to sell BT TV to more of our broadband customers and to accelerate the number of our customers who take a triple-play bundle from us,” Bushell said.Įxisting BT customers who already pay for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 should be able to swap their Vision+ box for a YouView+ box for £35 at the end of their current contract with the proviso they also take BT Infinity broadband.Įxisting Sky customers can currently add all seven Sky sports channels to their subscription for £24.50 per month. The CAT then made a U-turn in November, granting BT interim relief to broadcast the Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels via YouView for the first time.ĭelia Bushell, managing director of BT TV and BT Sport, declared the move as a pivotal moment for BT’s ambitions in pay-TV, describing the addition of the two Sky channels as ramping up its premium content for customers. Ofcom had been hugely embarrassed by a scathing CAT ruling in 2012 that concluded the basis of the regulator’s decision to force Sky to cut the amount it charges rivals was “unfounded”.īT challenged this decision and in February the court of appeal forced the CAT to reopen the issue, backing Ofcom by citing the existence of “significant competition concerns” in the pricing mechanism. In November, the supreme court rejected Sky’s request to challenge Ofcom’s powers to impose wholesale must offer. The new pricing structure proposed by Ofcom is referred to as “wholesale must offer”. In 2010, Ofcom first tried to force Sky to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 at a 23% discount to rivals as a curb on the satellite broadcaster abusing its dominant position in the market.
The decision by the CAT followed four years of legal wrangling, and, while it is an interim ruling, it nevertheless marked a major victory for Sky’s rivals and media regulator Ofcom. The move by BT follows its successful application for interim relief at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in November. The company said it would withdraw its Vision+ box, which was previously the way BT customers could get Sky’s sports channels. BT said it will offer Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 for £22 a month or £16.50 a month for one or the other of the channels, allowing customers the flexibility to opt in and out of the Sky Sports channels with 30 days’ notice.
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