Virgin Media cable TV customers may be about to lose access to ESPN, but they may be about to gain access to BT Sport if reports of negotiations being close to bearing fruit come true.
The old ESPN was included as part of a premium channel package, but with the standard BT Sport package costing £12/month for non BT Broadband customers (£15 for HD), some tough negotiating would be needed if the package was to be rolled in free.
One option might be that the top of the range VIP package will get free or reduced price access, this £99/month triple play package (+ £14.99 voice line rental) already includes Sky Sports and Sky Movies and the fastest residential broadband from Virgin Media and with the current sale at Virgin Media that has just two days left to run where the VIP bundle is just £49.50 per month for 12 months, maybe there is enough margin left for BT Sport.
ESPN cost about £9 but was free on XL
If they want an extra £3 that's cool by me but I can't see them doing this as its an opportunity to screw more money. Hopefully we will find out in two days, and be able to watch the rest of pre-season in HD.
If you’re a TV XL customer and have ESPN as part of your package once the channels are no longer available there is no change to your TV package price. This is the same as when we add or remove a channel to a TV Package.
They better sort something worthwhile or Virgin TV could get a cancellation.
