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You could say that but remember Sport has been Sky's mighty financial driver of subscriptions for over 20 years now and without it they might find themselves up the creek without a paddle quicker then one can imagine but personally l cannot see that happening anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I was thinking maybe to make its offering less reliant on HBO in case the latter decides to set up its own channels/service. The only exclusive content is content that you commission yourself.

And most of Sky's own exclusive commissions have failed to get decent audiences on the scale of the GOT and other HBO content.