Is Sky on the way out...have you ditched them.?
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I have ditched them and bought a humax recorder, got BT SPORT free , netflix especially the american version is so much better than sky movies....gone from £65 a month to £5.99, all my friends are ditching them.
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They must be right pissed off. I have Sky Go just for the football i.e. don't have any other Sky services as I don't watch that much TV and can watch in iPlayer etc what I want when I want, so when BT Sport do take over, I shall see what's what. But I shan't carry it on unless I get my money's worth which if they don't show football, I shan't.
I've boycotted Murdoch and all his works back when he was allowed to buy the Times (1981 nor thereabouts) and would be delighted to see it go down the pan.
For people in areas that aren't cabled though, a basic Sky package is often the cheapest deal for phone and internet, so that may give them enough loyal customers to keep going.
Ever since they've been sending me letters for 9 months half price (new box, free installation etc etc), so they do seem like they are desperate to gain / bring back customers.
Not everyone has Sky only for the sports channels. And of the people who do have it mainly for the sports channels, I'd imagine quite a few of them don't only subscribe for the Champions League.
I've had sky from about 1984 or 85
99% of the population watches the main channels most of the time. + I not get soprt I want to watch free on BT
Sky had a monopoly.. £700 a year for TV ! thats BS.
I have Sky Sports for the football but rarely watch Champions League so don't care about that. If they lost the PL then I would dump Sky Sports but would keep the other packs I have.
I pay extra for my sports subscription, that's the point I was making, the subscription will still be an extra £xx per month but show less football that is unless they can get more Premiership league right back....
I do have the little NOW TV box though.
I couldn't cope with just Freeview or Freesat now, as most of the programming I watch is on pay channels.
BT are honest about it though, they want people to sign up to broadband the chairman openly says that, they may have overpaid, but they can afford it, I'd expect them to shunt Sky/Murdoch into a secondary broadcaster like Murdoch did to the BBC and ITV in a number of years if they can get exclusive rights on Champions League games. Interesting note that BSkyB's shares fell 10% because of it.
They're not desperate - those offers are pretty standard.
Sky won't be going anywhere any time soon.
I ditched the sports package last summer. Used to unsubscribe in the summer to save a bit of cash.
I'll probably cancel altogether next year.