Sky Sports Lose More Sport
The fall out to the BSkyB saga escalated today even further as
SIX other sports pulled out of being shown on Sky Sports.
The first sport is Formula 1. The Motorsport, ran by Bernie Ecclestone today released a statement saying,
we as a company can not be involved in such a situation like this. We can not be seen to be involved with any corporation who move events to a dangerous time slot to please themselves. We will be moving now to BBC and BT Sport who will show every race live and Sky will now not be able to show Formula 1 for the forseeable future.
Other sports included more football in the form of La Liga (moving to BT Sport), Serie A (moving to Channel 4 & 5) and the Dutch premier league (moving to BT Sport). This is very move by all three football leagues and leaves Sky Sports 5 useless and will now close down.
To make matters worse David Beckham has said he can not be associated wth BSkyB as have Paul Merson, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. Beckham has moved abroad to cover ESPN in America and there Premier League coverage, Neville and Merson move to ITV and Carragher has moved across to BT Sport to join David James and Michael Owen.
This is a huge blow for BSkyB as it seems that people think that they
ARE solely to blame for the Second City Derby fiasco.
Other sports to have pulled out of there deals are Speedway (Moves to Eurosport), Snooker (moves to BT Sport), Darts (moves to ITV, Rugby Union and League (moves to BBC, ITV and BT Sport) and Cricket (moves to BT Sport and Channel 4) have all pulled away from Sky Sports in a amazing twist of events.
It leaves them now with only a handful of sports left to screen over 5 channels including Boxing, American Football and Nascar but they are all 'evaluating' there positions at the moment.