Does not surprise me in the slightest, I have a big feeling now its all between Sky and BT.
I also very much doubt Bein put any bids in.
It would be a massive, massive gamble to splash that much money on effectively setting up a whole new business.
I'd be interested to know how many actual paying subscribers BT has - compared to those getting it free. Because that must be an indication of how easy it is to get people to break the 'Sky habit'.
The mailonline has an interesting article about tv money. West Brom who avoided relegation and earned £65 million. Atletico Madrid who "only" won the La Liga and runners-up in the Champions League managed with only £31 million (compared to £103 million that Real and Barcelona earned).
IMHO it is how you spend the money - not how much. If clubs sold their tv rights separately, would not change the Premier League status quo. Last season Liverpool earned the most and one of the most popular clubs would do the same if rights were sold by club. It would just mean that relegation-threatening clubs like QPR would spend their money more conservative instead of overpaying for benchwarmers.
I guess one question is if Sky lost C (BT had C and A) how would they handle Liv/Man U and Man U/Man C without either early slot and no controlling 2nd pick?
If PL allow these games to be "1st picked", where can they be played?
I'm sure that sort of thing is covered in the tender document. There's always the Sunday 12noon slot too.
Sky will want to keep control of the run in, if there are 2 teams in it they need to have control of 1st and 2nd picks so packages D and C will be critical to them and I can see them allowing BT both Saturday packs to secure Sundays.
E, F and G are then a battle not sure where these will end up and will determine who has the stronger hand.
My latest guess is BT A and B, Sky the rest. BT drop down to 15 1st picks from 18 but all of these at weekends as opposed to 13 at present.
Easily. And in normal slots, not stupidly early or stupidly late:
12.30pm
3pm
5.30pm
8pm
Or if you prefer an early slot:
12pm
2.15pm
4.15pm
7pm
Think about it though. At the expected £4.4bn cost of the rights it means each game costs on average £26m. Ok, the bank holiday package will be relatively cheaper than the main ones but still you're looking at £20m a game in all probability. So the broadcaster that wins that package is going to be airing £80 million worth of football on one day!!
Think about it though. At the expected £4.4bn cost of the rights it means each game costs on average £26m. Ok, the bank holiday package will be relatively cheaper than the main ones but still you're looking at £20m a game in all probability. So the broadcaster that wins that package is going to be airing £80 million worth of football on one day!!
£8.7m actually - the suggested £4.4bn is for 3 years.
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In a word or so.....No chance.
I'd be interested to know how many actual paying subscribers BT has - compared to those getting it free. Because that must be an indication of how easy it is to get people to break the 'Sky habit'.
Setanta and ESPN clearly failed.
I know but I was talking about putting a game on at 8
Or on BT's twitter page.
https://twitter.com/TMFootyFinance/status/565164799861219328
It would be interesting of they did but its down to the money
Sky are up +0.26%
Atletico are very much an exception to the trend, you can't really use them to argue against collective bargaining ffs.
I'm sure that sort of thing is covered in the tender document. There's always the Sunday 12noon slot too.
Very sad if at all true.
E, F and G are then a battle not sure where these will end up and will determine who has the stronger hand.
My latest guess is BT A and B, Sky the rest. BT drop down to 15 1st picks from 18 but all of these at weekends as opposed to 13 at present.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9flYINIUAADIvy.jpg
I assumed that was a WC 2022 related joke.
http://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.asp?SharePrice=sky&goButton=Go
http://www.lse.co.uk/shareprice.asp?shareprice=BT.A&share=bt_group_plc_ord_5p
Sky shares still holding steady.
If Sky has lost big time they would prefer to lose to beIN rather than BT - as no phone/broadband competition and beIN will be platform neutral.
Of course if beIN did win 5 packages, then that would leave the question of who has won the other two - one of Sky and BT would end up with nothing!
Thanks for that Gavin_D
Think about it though. At the expected £4.4bn cost of the rights it means each game costs on average £26m. Ok, the bank holiday package will be relatively cheaper than the main ones but still you're looking at £20m a game in all probability. So the broadcaster that wins that package is going to be airing £80 million worth of football on one day!!
Posted on here first!
Cheeky wee bit of advertising mlt11
Interesting on that assumption that Charles Sale did tweet about 2 packages BT would be happy with
£8.7m actually - the suggested £4.4bn is for 3 years.