I've just had a representative from Setanta Sport post on my RL forum about pricing and what people's thoughts are on the matter, here's his post.
Quote Premier Sports will be focusing on NRL and GAA with some pre-season soccer action over the summer. Cetic, Man U etc. I would be interested to see what people think would be a fair and realistic price for this service in the UK given the free to air coverage so far. The channel will be changing to PPV in a couple of weeks time. and the picture quaility is set to improve from today, Cheers.'"
When he got a couple of replies saying we think it should be free as we pay enough for Sky as it is, we got this reply.
Quote Unfortunately it is a minority channel that currently is only attracting goverment ads like never 'touch a hot bbq' or 'accept a building quote without a contract' 'open the door to strangers' etc! So making it free is not an option. Looks like the price will be £5.99 a month and when compared to paying £30 for streams I think this is okay for 12 NRL matches a month or so. Maybe I am wrong. Time will tell. I will post more details in the next week or so. Website should be up and running in a few days and you should have noticed the signal quailty improving from today.'"
I thought since he only for a handful of replies over on RLforums, I would open the topic upto people on here and direct him to this thread.