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I'm not sure of that, if it was all on demand then NowTV would be overtaking HD sales. Plus adverts will never disappear from any TV on any platform otherwise the broadcasters have no funding. I have SkyQ myself and think that in a year or two the products and apps that will be available on its platform will be the future of TV. And by the news about BT this morning, who knows what is going to happen with broadband.
I certainly think it's heading that way PM, ...........
Really need an edit feature! And THAT leaves sport And we are BACK to my original concern
I hold BT and was going to split it with Sky as they seem inevitably linked. However one thing concerns me. Sky is basically an advertising company, and personally I don't watch adverts any more and neither to a lot of friends and colleagues. The future is on demand content, advert free I think. Which means broadband not satellite. I know Sky is into both and soon to be mobile, but not through its own network. So that could be the end of Sky movies and TV shows and not leaves sport. Which is of course where the money is but this is paid for wth advertising and we are Gsk to my initial concern. Opinions?
Fill your boots
I believe is sitting in an oversold position. Does anyone agree ?? I have pls fy in BT & VOD and thought I'd add SKY here with moving funds elsewhere?
I am trying to understand How you can own shares in a company via CFDs when CFDs( according to investopedia) is ... The difference between where a trade is entered and exited is the contract for difference (CFD). A CFD is a tradable instrument that mirrors the movements of the asset underlying it. It allows for profits or losses to be realized when the underlying asset moves in relation to the position taken, but the actual underlying asset is never owned. How can you have voting rights in some thing you dont own? I would like to know anyone?
should be to get out of shares and buy a nice little holiday home by the beach in Troon or Dundonald lol
score captured live on sky. The bbc can keep their Hazel Irvine.
RNS
The bigger rise was in fact due to positive reaction to the German football auction outcome: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/09/skys-shares-up-35bn-german-bundesliga-tv-deal
Announced today. Sky NZ is a separate company but it could be a sign of things to come in Europe perhaps? I guess that's why the SP today is slightly up.
Apologies for board hopping but- The petition is going quite well; ~5150 signatures so far. Although it really needs a turbo boost. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112044/sponsors/frRbCOsOLO6QqIN82UOX This petition was stalled in parliament since 12th Aug 15; finally green lit on 12th feb 2016. The FCA don't even reply on the matter, now is your chance to have your say. If you hate seeing buys reported as sells etc!!!!!! Has already been sent to Martin Lewis, Daily Mail, Moneyweek & Watchdog. My local MP supported this petition by writing to the petitions committee to help un-stall it. There’s 650 MP’s in Westminster, So have you written to your MP? 649 to go! If this petition doesn’t reach 10,000; then imo we might as well have not bothered as it will almost certainly be filed B1N; @ 10,000 the government should respond. We are currently getting approx. 100 new signatures a week, but need 3x that amount to reach the target with only 15 weeks to go. So – If you haven’t yet signed or indeed have but haven’t passed it on to others, then now’s the time to do so. If each person who has signed can get just one other person to sign then we will double the total immediately. I have posted to all aim listed gas n oilies, currently doing the footsy 100. But I can only do so much to push this. Really need you guys & gals to help. Thanks to all who have signed so far.
In fact nope, sold my holding already... trend is down. I'll monitor this one.
If you're not aware already, Netflix subscriber growth is slowing. I have a feeling it's due to the recent hollywood copyright issues, where Netflix has been told to actively block people using the service of international netflix by means of DNS servers. I.e UK customers watching USA netflix using a DNS server to fool the Netflix server into believing the UK customer is a USA customer. A lot of content providers have gotten together to enforce Netflix to stop allowing this. The UK netflix is rubbish compared to the USA netflix. That will be one of the reasons. Sky still dominates in sports... it's also got a far more user friendly set top box compared the virgin media and BT in my opinion. THe churn rate is up due to competition, but clearly Sky is still attracting big customer numbers, I've just bought some at it's support level. Not worried about this stock at all.
When official data says 28.7m in uk and Ireland-confused.com
I doubt whether NF will but Amazon is a possibility imo.
If Netflix and Amazon get into Sports......then I will be worried.
norrab1 which brings us back to the OP's comment that Netflix and Amazon aren't wont hit SKY. Of course they will as on the streamimg platform they CAN compete!
Good point J, however,, those churning from satellite to streaming box will have an impact on revenues with lower viewing costs. The counter argument is (as in your case) the attraction of totally new customers. If this market of media streaming is exploited then Sky will survive. I think we all agree that the days of viewing via satellite are diminishing.
Sorry meant to add, the recently posted 12% increase in profits just shows that Netflix and Amazon, who aren't new kids on the block, aren't making too many waves.
The NOW box has been a revelation. I've never had Sky in my life but got a NOW box, no dish here. Pay for the games you want, it's brilliant. When the same happens in Europe, with German and Italian football, Sky will just go from strength to strength.
Sorry for grammar. Damn autocorrect got some of my worms wrong😊