@adriancolahan wrote:
So first it was the champions league and then the NBA and now even the French open tennis is now not watchable on Sky Sports even with the dedicated tennis channel. All gone to TNT. Disappointing that the marquee events keep getting poached by TNT yet our Sky Sports subscriptions continue to rise (along with everything else on the Sky bill). Not a happy Diamond VIP customer!!
The NBA is back on Sky next season.
The rights to the French tennis open have been owned by Warner Brothers Discovery for a while and it was WDB who decided to close Eurosport and moved all their sporting content to their premium sports channels.
Unfortunately sports rights are expensive for broadcasters to obtain, so no single broadcaster is going to typically own the complete rights for one sport and thus rights will tend to chop and change between the premium channels every couple of years.
TNT Sports have had the rights for the champions league for about the last 10 years now and this is predominately where they spend their football budget, on the other side Sky has instead used their football budget on domestic football with them having the EFL and the majority of PL football.
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