SKT Sky Network Television Limited.

[mistaTea]

misatea, sky will 100% need to win rugby - whatever it costs. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

"Whatever it costs?" So, if SPK bid $900M...Sky should bid $1 billion?

Sky need to dig deep to try hold onto rugby absolutely, I agree 100%. But I do not agree that they should win it at any cost.

[Beagle]

misatea, sky will 100% need to win rugby - whatever it costs. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

I respectfully disagree, (actually couldn't disagree more), and think this is the sort of, "we must win this regardless of cost" mindset that will wreck the company and its resources and as its the mindset that's currently prevailing within managements current strategy and as such I think the company is presently uninvestable.

[Beagle]

I can send you a link that lets u watch CNBC FOX CNN and others pretty reliably if not in HD.
No VPN required. Easy. That was something I missed as well.

Thanks mate, CNBC not in HD on SKY anyway. Yes, please send me a link via PM or on here for others benefit.

[RTM]

misatea, sky will 100% need to win rugby - whatever it costs. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

The Super Rugby contest is a mess for another year. Personally I have little interest in the conference system contest. I don’t think that will save SKY with its current format.

[RTM]

I respectfully disagree, (actually couldn't disagree more), and think this is the sort of, "we must win this regardless of cost" mindset that will wreck the company and its resources and as its the mindset that's currently prevailing within managements current strategy and as such I think the company is presently uninvestable.

Sport is the ONLY reason I would consider SKY. To many other options for movies and other programming.
Disc. Not a subscriber or an investor currently.

[Entrep]

No one has mentioned piracy either - that hasn't gone anywhere.

In fact I just looked and a popular SOHO series is showing episode 6 in the US today. That same episode won't play on SKY until next week. They are playing episode 5 this week instead.

[moimoi]

Haven't SKY just bought a Rugby streaming platform....?

Is it too simplistic to believe that with that newfound expertise they could create and reliably provide a "volleyball" or "antiques revisited" streaming platform...?

[JeremyALD]

I respectfully disagree, (actually couldn't disagree more), and think this is the sort of, "we must win this regardless of cost" mindset that will wreck the company and its resources and as its the mindset that's currently prevailing within managements current strategy and as such I think the company is presently uninvestable.

They would lose hundreds of thousands of subscribers if they lost local rugby and All Blacks matches. You can't be the 'home of sports' without the All Blacks and the Black Caps can you?

With nearly 800k subscribers could they handle losing such subscriber numbers with the high fix costs they incur?

[mistaTea]

It would be a significant blow, nobody is saying it wouldn’t.

We are just highlighting that sky cannot pay ‘any price’ for the content.

It is entirely possible that Spark could outbid them. If they are willing to pay double what Sky is, then that’s that.

But if they do, who will it ultimately hurt more? Spark or Sky?

[fungus pudding]

It would be a significant blow, nobody is saying it wouldn’t.

We are just highlighting that sky cannot pay ‘any price’ for the content.

It is entirely possible that Spark could outbid them. If they are willing to pay double what Sky is, then that’s that.

But if they do, who will it ultimately hurt more? Spark or Sky?

Can you really see satellite broadcasting beating the internet? It's only a matter of time.