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ESPN and Sky - The new complementary premium sports duo - Venture Insights

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ESPN and Sky – The new complementary premium sports duo

PublisherEnders Analysis.
Publish Date August 17, 2009
Sector Pay TV, Sports.
Company Sky Group.

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According to recent speculation, Sky stands to benefit materially in the short-term from the replacement of Setanta by ESPN, but could suffer from rights inflation and worse in the longer term should ESPN become really successful.

ESPN’s commitment to a pure wholesale channel distribution model across all platforms and lower outlay on rights gives a real chance of building a viable business where Setanta failed.

But, profits will take time to build and there is little to suggest that Sky will either materially benefit from having ESPN rather than Setanta as a customer, or that ESPN will emerge as a serious threat to Sky’s own core premium sports business in the next three to four years.