Comcast challenging Murdock for SKY

[Nike19]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43209100

There’s a possibility of Premier League Football delivered by Comcast – a telecommunications giant.

I have watched games from NBC Sports which I have enjoyed, but if football is going to trickle it’s way down this road over the next 5 to 10 years to the point where you’re having to watch it on mediums like Netflix and Google, then that’s me done and dusted out of watching and I’d stick to Radio and Highlights.

It’s a huge shame ITV and Channel 5 for example can’t join forces and big for a 3rd and 4th tier package.

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Comcast are notorious for providing an absolute shite service….

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[maverick1973]

£31bn offer?You can buy Greece and N.Korea for that,surely?

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[Anonymous]

Interesting reading about Comcast corp. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how the football is delivered into your home, so long as you get a signal.

The point about it is that it has a global footprint and distribution. Where all of this falls down is where new balance comes in. Comcast relaunched a secondary brand to try and move away from the disastrous or surrounding Comcast customer service. Xfinity was that vehicle.

Essentially though we could just boil it down to the “grand tour effect” – remember those three petrol head wankers? Well they left uk tele and I’ve not seen them since.

We could also call it the “bt” effect whereby they pay loads for the football and champions league and joe public can’t watch on terrestrial.

new balance. ITV nearly went broke over football, and both dont make
Enough to distribute domestically. And the bbc paid a lot for a highlights package. The next step will take football further away from fans than it already is.

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[Chucky McChuckface]

I suppose I’m kinda fortunate none of this will affect me too much, as my football package comes via VISAT here in Finland, and I would assume comes under the whole “overseas” nonsense that doesn’t involve terrestrial matters.

But I remember Comcast from my time in the states… I’d be very afraid… 🙂

Not quite pertaining to this, but some idea about how Comcast like to operate!

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[nine nine nine]

The dissipation with football on TV is worrying and I agree with Nil and 442 re Netflix and BT Sport but if Comcast secure Sky in a takeover I can’t see them spending that kind of money on Sky to use something else as their platform for football .

My main worry would be do they try and fleece existing Sky customers to get back costs from the takeover.

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[Anonymous]

I don’t think they would Nine. Big business isn’t that worried about liquid cash, so assets equal to the amount they paid is basically just as good. Looking at it from a purely business point of view, it would be a bit of a sin to even have large amounts of cash sitting there idle, as the board are legally bound to do their best to maximise the shareholders investments.

Comcast have an abysmal reputation in America and their attitude towards net-neutrality really is just typical of their general direction as a company. They don’t want any competition because competition means they would have to give their customers a satisfactory service. So, my worry would be that they would be looking at Sky now and thinking “we can cut costs and squeeze out the competition.”. That said, thankfully the PL have rules against monopolization.

I mean, this isn’t a huge deal to me because I don’t pay for sports channels anymore. I don’t find the prices to be reasonable. . . but that’s another story.

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[Nike19]

Thank you kind people for your replies 🙂

442, Valid point, and that’s what I have done for a fair few years in between actually watching a Live game on the box.

I totally get where you’re coming from and perhaps this could be a generation thing and so I’m supportive of my upbringing in being able to watch Football from Terrestrial TV.

There was just more simplicity at one point knowing it was either a Sky or Virgin (once actually Diamond Cable, then NTL), and paying at most £15 monthly to get all your football.

I like and champion beyond the first 6 Best teams that fact that there IS a more level playing field. That side of it all fine, but from my own POV, I feel it’s distancing and drifting further away from what in essence should be something accessible in ‘your own back garden’, than to have to experience a notion of ‘Theatre’ from a Broadcasting network in the states.

They’ve pretty much made us supporters feel as though we’re in a double whammy; meaning that if we don’t play by their rules in latching on to ‘A’ subscription, ‘Johnny Silva’ will not sign and you know the rest, hahaha 🙂

Is that Communism, Socialism or Captialism?

Take your pick!

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