This doesn’t make any sense to me. Sky already has the streamers under control, their packages include Netflix and they’ve always been known for airing the HBO shows and sports. That being said if Sky go, good riddance. Their costs are absurd.
ClassicFun2175 on
I don’t understand how the governing bodies would even allow this deal to happen. First of all Sky is owned by Comcast which is an American company, if Sky were to buy ITV, how is that now not a monopoly because BBC is tax payer funded, channel 4 is nowhere near the size of ITV, so whose actually left as a competitor. So Sky will have literally just brought out there only competition anf could literally just set whatever prices they want with no regard for consumers whatsoever. The only way this deal goes through if a lot of palms have been greased, because there should be no other way this deal should be sanctioned.
DanS1993 on
Seems quite an expensive way to get Coronation Street land at universal studios UK.
fisico002 on
Shame they can’t take over STV too and stop all the crap they show rather than national programs
IgneousJam on
… amid onslaught of better TV programmes, rather than the continual rehashing of 20 year long formats like I’m A Celebrity and Britain’s Got Talent
Interesting-Lead-788 on
Don’t care. Just aslong as I’m not forced to pay for a tv licence
patrandec on
So, there’s an “onslaught of US Streamers”, so the government allows ITV to be bought by a US media company? This country can’t help selling itself off to the highest bidders.
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This doesn’t make any sense to me. Sky already has the streamers under control, their packages include Netflix and they’ve always been known for airing the HBO shows and sports. That being said if Sky go, good riddance. Their costs are absurd.
I don’t understand how the governing bodies would even allow this deal to happen. First of all Sky is owned by Comcast which is an American company, if Sky were to buy ITV, how is that now not a monopoly because BBC is tax payer funded, channel 4 is nowhere near the size of ITV, so whose actually left as a competitor. So Sky will have literally just brought out there only competition anf could literally just set whatever prices they want with no regard for consumers whatsoever. The only way this deal goes through if a lot of palms have been greased, because there should be no other way this deal should be sanctioned.
Seems quite an expensive way to get Coronation Street land at universal studios UK.
Shame they can’t take over STV too and stop all the crap they show rather than national programs
… amid onslaught of better TV programmes, rather than the continual rehashing of 20 year long formats like I’m A Celebrity and Britain’s Got Talent
Don’t care. Just aslong as I’m not forced to pay for a tv licence
So, there’s an “onslaught of US Streamers”, so the government allows ITV to be bought by a US media company? This country can’t help selling itself off to the highest bidders.