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<blockquote data-quote="Amiga500" data-source="post: 607068" data-attributes="member: 56767">are you serious?The english media have not reported this affair with one ounce of credibility.They&#039;ve been so far up McCafferty&#039;s arse they can&#039;t see nothing but Wray, Craig etc.There wasn&#039;t one word in any English paper (I&#039;ve seen) of the FFR&#039;s meeting with all LNR clubs where serious moves to undermine the PRL/LNR RCC were afoot.[I had a long reply for your earlier post on the BT bidding approach, but eventually didn&#039;t bother. You aren&#039;t going to recognise that large corporations have business units that are judged individually on their profit/loss and that BT are not going to continually throw heaps of money away on TV deals if they don&#039;t generate sufficient return on investment. Given that sky are already in the subscription+advert+internet TV market (unlike ITV or BBC who were advert or license fee funded), then they are in a much better position to judge the market value of competition rights - their bid was less than half BT&#039;s bid and they weren&#039;t willing to counterbid. If BT are going to loss-lead on bids to force other suppliers to exit the marketplace - then you can put down money on anti-competitive courts getting involved. Loss leading seeking eradication of competition is highly illegal.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amiga500, post: 607068, member: 56767"] are you serious? The english media have not reported this affair with one ounce of credibility. They've been so far up McCafferty's arse they can't see nothing but Wray, Craig etc. There wasn't one word in any English paper (I've seen) of the FFR's meeting with all LNR clubs where serious moves to undermine the PRL/LNR RCC were afoot. [I had a long reply for your earlier post on the BT bidding approach, but eventually didn't bother. You aren't going to recognise that large corporations have business units that are judged individually on their profit/loss and that BT are not going to continually throw heaps of money away on TV deals if they don't generate sufficient return on investment. Given that sky are already in the subscription+advert+internet TV market (unlike ITV or BBC who were advert or license fee funded), then they are in a much better position to judge the market value of competition rights - their bid was less than half BT's bid and they weren't willing to counterbid. If BT are going to loss-lead on bids to force other suppliers to exit the marketplace - then you can put down money on anti-competitive courts getting involved. Loss leading seeking eradication of competition is highly illegal.] [/QUOTE]

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