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Make TV offering better value

As a Sky TV customer I pay extra for BT Sport to enable watching rugby as I’m not interested in other sports.

BT styles itself as the broadcaster for rugby in the UK, and charges as such, but now some games are ‘free to air’ on ITV and also PRTV is starting up to broadcast the games BT Sport is not covering live and charging per game.

Why doesn’t the Premiership stagger kick-off times each weekend? Then BT could broadcast all six matches live and I wouldn’t mind a few matches being on ITV to spread interest in

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