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[Football] New SKY TV deal worth less



Murray 17

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
2,159
There are two massive advantages to Albion fans though:

1. The club might follow Hudd's lead and give us very cheap PL season ticket prices.

Will never happen.

4 or 5% increase every year from now on, is my guess. Dressed up as, 'only £2 a match - you can't buy a pint for that.'
 


Taybha

Whalewhine
Oct 8, 2008
27,136
Uwantsumorwat
Brilliant, you've not even seen Locardia play?


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Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
19,632
Eastbourne
Brilliant? I was making oblique REFERENCE to the MONEY we spent. MONEY that we have only because of the TV deal. Whether it was WELL SPENT or not is not RELEVANT to the POINT I was making.

FFS :shootself:wozza:

Yes but everything is relative. We would still have some very good players even if the tv money was a tenth of what it currently is.
 




Windsor_seagull

New member
Aug 25, 2012
15
The remaining packages appear to be for the whole round of fixtures on the same date so how many platforms have the ability to do this?

Package F - to be decided 20 matches from one Bank Holiday and one midweek fixture programme
Package G - to be decided 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes

Surely that will only be possible for SKY, and maybe the new entries into the market like Amazon and Facebook

So the only potential bidder that you think it definitely wouldn’t be possible for is BT..... who regularly show a whole round of champions league matches simultaneously?!
 




studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,555
On the Border
Looks like 4.30pm is now the default Sunday late afternoon slot, which is not great, and 19.45 Saturday night, oh joy
 


Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason
Sep 29, 2007
8,187
So the only potential bidder that you think it definitely wouldn’t be possible for is BT..... who regularly show a whole round of champions league matches simultaneously?!

I don't have BT, could they show 10 games at once?

Now sure how appealing it would be as the audiences for each match will be affected by this simultaneous broadcasting (or maybe spread out slightly, ie Bank Holiday = 3 kick-off times?, mid-week games over 2 or 3 days?) I mean, how many will watch Stoke vs Burnley when LIverpool vs Spurs is also on at the same time?

Would BT (and others) really want to have that many games showing at once, given how much it is likely to cost?

This whole thing package set up feels like the possible start of clubs getting their own TV deals or the top clubs (Man U, Man City, etc) getting more cash as a result of their games attracting the audiences, leading to an eve bigger gap between the top 6 and the rest
 


Weststander

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Aug 25, 2011
63,407
Withdean area
I don't have BT, could they show 10 games at once?

Now sure how appealing it would be as the audiences for each match will be affected by this simultaneous broadcasting (or maybe spread out slightly, ie Bank Holiday = 3 kick-off times?, mid-week games over 2 or 3 days?) I mean, how many will watch Stoke vs Burnley when LIverpool vs Spurs is also on at the same time?

Would BT (and others) really want to have that many games showing at once, given how much it is likely to cost?

This whole thing package set up feels like the possible start of clubs getting their own TV deals or the top clubs (Man U, Man City, etc) getting more cash as a result of their games attracting the audiences, leading to an eve bigger gap between the top 6 and the rest

Clubs won't be getting their own deals. Every attempt is hugely out voted by most PL clubs.
 




doogie004

Well-known member
Oct 12, 2008
6,422
wisborough green
There are two massive advantages to Albion fans though:

1. The club might follow Hudd's lead and give us very cheap PL season ticket prices; and

2. We get the chance to drool over Hazard, Salah and Willian, possibly getting given a shirt if lucky.

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No2 who cares


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Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,521
So 200 matches out of 380 on the box, giving an average of 5 out of 10 Prem matches kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday.
 






Invicta

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NSC Patreon
Nov 1, 2013
3,195
Kent
The remaining packages appear to be for the whole round of fixtures on the same date so how many platforms have the ability to do this?

Package F - to be decided 20 matches from one Bank Holiday and one midweek fixture programme
Package G - to be decided 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes

Surely that will only be possible for SKY, and maybe the new entries into the market like Amazon and Facebook but would they really want to put that much in when people can realistically only watch a handful of these 40 games as most will be shown simultaneously and only cover a few dates of the whole season?

It would give a taster on the newer platforms, but it would be a long time before they could bid again to try to expand their coverage if successful (2022) and also would they be able to raise enough on advertising, etc to pay for the current remaining packages and make it worthwhile show they win, limiting what they could bid for them (if i have read it right, you may only have 5 or 6 dates per season for these 40 matches)

Sure I've read that the Prem League tempted to test selling these through their own network. Easy to do with a 3rd party and test the water on pay per view over a few dates. May prove more lucrative than selling rights to media companies in future.
 


Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason
Sep 29, 2007
8,187
Yes. They regularly show 8 games on a CL night.

Fair enough, but i was originally referring more to the fixtures in the 2 remaining packages being on a couple of dates only, and i can't see that being that appealing in terms of paying anywhere near to what they have been paying per game on the other packages that have already sold

If you brought one of the other packages, it means you had contents for several weeks of the season and not just a few days
 


Withdean and I

Well-known member
Aug 6, 2003
1,344
Footballs soul being eaten by capitalism bit by bit.
 






nicko31

Well-known member
Jan 7, 2010
17,523
Gods country fortnightly
Overseas rights should be up, these are evenly shared and should help clubs like us
 


Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,486
Brighton
I watched a BT game at a pub the other week and it looked just like any Sky/BBC game with the same pundits. Is it not time to have all the games on one platform and the PL set the cost of subscription that way, rather than having to pay out for two subscriptions there would be one payment of, say, £20 month to get every televised game.
Other point is that BT look like losing 10 games so is it worth the money for just 32 games now? Yes they will add one days package but that will be only one more Albion game.
 


Beanstalk

Well-known member
Apr 5, 2017
2,454
London
I watched a BT game at a pub the other week and it looked just like any Sky/BBC game with the same pundits. Is it not time to have all the games on one platform and the PL set the cost of subscription that way, rather than having to pay out for two subscriptions there would be one payment of, say, £20 month to get every televised game.
Other point is that BT look like losing 10 games so is it worth the money for just 32 games now? Yes they will add one days package but that will be only one more Albion game.

Whilst that may be logical for you and I (fans of football) it would not be for Sky or BT. As with the real game the majority of the money does not come from paying customers. Advertising makes up the bulk of income and if you are able to have a big game e.g. the Manchester Derby pulling in around 2-2.5million viewers on Sky, competition for prime ad space becomes more competitive and Sky's income stream is higher and they can afford to pay more for the TV packages in the long run.

On the other hand, if you have a good internet connection and know where to look, there is no need for a PL subscription. I watched the NLD followed by Stoke v Brighton in 720p HD on CNBC from my front room in North London.
 






Hampster Gull

New member
Dec 22, 2010
13,462
I watched a BT game at a pub the other week and it looked just like any Sky/BBC game with the same pundits. Is it not time to have all the games on one platform and the PL set the cost of subscription that way, rather than having to pay out for two subscriptions there would be one payment of, say, £20 month to get every televised game.
Other point is that BT look like losing 10 games so is it worth the money for just 32 games now? Yes they will add one days package but that will be only one more Albion game.

Would that be open to challenge, ie no competition, so a monopoly
 



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