Adrian Weckler

On the other hand, they have the likes of Netflix, Disney, Apple TV, Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video, all of those streamers and YouTube.

They are all in the ascendant still and they're squeezing out the legacy networks like Sky, like RT as well, like like BBC.

So.

if i was in sky's camp i might and i was looking to persuade politicians i might try and argue that with the current dynamics both legal and illegal that are in the market you might see a situation that in a few years we just have less and less original irish or british programming full stop because you're leaving the market to youtube netflix and disney on one hand and dodgy boxes

on the other, and where does the money come from?

I mean, the number one thing that people watch on Irish TVs in Irish living rooms is YouTube.

It's not RT, it's not even Netflix.

Netflix is number two.

But I presume Netflix stuff has been stolen on Digiboxes.

Yeah, I think it is, but the...

The issue for them is a little bit like the issue for Spotify when it comes to pirating music or fighting piracy of music.

The entry level price or the price for Netflix or Spotify is so much lower than it is, say, to watch a Sky package in general.

That is.

It doesn't affect them as much, and they're willing to take a certain amount of privacy.

I should say that there are signs, for those who say that the likes of Sky is way too much, there are some signs that they're modifying their prices.

I think their entry-level price at the moment, I did some research into this, is 17 quid for their Sky Stream service.

You get a bunch of TV channels, but you also get included with that Netflix and Sky Atlantic, which I was surprised.

I didn't know you got Sky Atlantic with that because that was normally...

premium television because that's all the hbo stuff so there is also maybe um a signal that sky in particular but probably others too are starting to adjust to this reality of dodgy boxes and they're starting to lower their prices on some of their premium content yeah

friendly on the wallet and obviously you're not you know you can just say oh the masters is on premier league season peaking i'll just do the month of april they have offers so all that stuff is starting to kind of happen and bear in mind as well that sky is actually the only player who sells a tv package in the irish market left on its own so you used to think about say virgin for example virgin media and then we saw vodafone come in with tv and air air tv and