Bar Talk

Has your Sky subscription increased?

Adrian Clay

Raikes Hall

Blackpool

I've just had

to get the new Sky Ultimate package, costing an extra £69 per month. Showing live events is vital for my business and there is no way round it. We live in an era now where there are cameras at every game. For the price we pay, we should be allowed to pick and choose the games we show on TV.

Dave Daly

The Castle

Blackpool

At the moment

I pay £15,516

a year and the new package looks as if it could be around £22,000. We are in negotiations

with Sky at the moment

to work out the deal. I want to get the package as cheaply as possible with the recession coming.

It is a vital aspect of my business, so I need it.

Fiona Hornsby

Thomas Rigby's

Liverpool

Sky is already expensive, but it's just so important in a pub nowadays.

I pay £9,500 a year which is a bit much already. If it was just football I wouldn't bother, but the fact that people can watch all the different sports makes it a valuable asset.

Kevin Connor

Red Lion

Withington

Manchester

I think it's an absolute con.

I got the subscription on the price freeze last year, yet my costs are to go up by 11%. Sky has such a monopoly and that's wrong. At the same time, we need to have it for the pub to continue. We get 400 people in on match days. Without Sky we would struggle.