The EU and the Premier League came to an agreement which did break the rights into smaller packages, on the basis that when the television rights had been sold as a single package no one could afford to compete with Sky.

While this did also include the provision that no broadcaster can hold the rights to every package, those new packages were made by combing both the previous TV rights package and the pay-per-view package.

So although Setanta originally won two of the packages, the number of matches retained by Sky Sports was the same as before this remedy.  Sky Sports subscribers lost nothing, at least in term of volume.  And prior to this anyone wishing to see every televised match still had to pay twice, for Sky Sports and for PremPlus.

My grandfather used to get the 6 bundles from sky and then by law 2 bundles had to go to another channel.

So to get the 6 bundles he had to pay Sky the same 19.99 I think for the 4 bundles and then had to pay another 9.99 to another company for the other 2 bundles.

So he ended up paying another 9.99 a month for the same 6 bundles.

So will the same be the same for movies with us paying extra to other channels for the same movies

The competition commission seems to be working not for the public but making them pay more for the same

Why dont they leave Sky alone they bring football and movies cheaper to the public without the goverment poking their noses in

Emma