Sky Wins Rights To Show Premier Ship Matches
Sky has won the rights to show 126 live Premier League matches per season for three years from 2016-17 after winning the rights to five packages of games.
http://news.sky.com/story/1425026/sky-wins-majority-of-premier-league-matches
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What rights have the BBC and ITV got to show matches? It shows people need to switch to Sky or BT IF they want to watch footie.
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and I bet ticket prices still don't come down.
It works out at £10.2m on average per game. Why don't clubs reduce ticket prices when they are guaranteed that sort of money?
Or go and watch their local non-League team?
Or subscribe to another service for all 380 games;-) simples
Probably because most of them are up to their necks in debt ...
Not really, I watch my team either by a lucky chance of a ticket, or by streams for 3pm games. If I didn't have Sky or BT sport, I would find a stream for those matches as well.
I used to be a die hard football fan, but the games obsession with money (including the hysteria over transfer windows) has turned me right off and I very rarely watch games any more.
Also, it hasn't been 'the Premiership' for years.
What rights have the BBC and ITV got to show matches? Money. The beeb stumped up a small part of the licence fee to retain the highlights deal, and ITV syphon off a bit of their advertising income to show whatever they show these days. They paid a lot less, and got a lot less. Where's the issue with that?
Yes! There's two football worlds that exist now
The Game- what happens on the pitch and who is playing, who is injured and what formations are going to be used.
The 'soap opera'- Transfer gossip with bombastic Countdown timers, what this player controversially said on twitter, the fake shock over a managers comments. How many million it will take to prize this player from their club (and how much his contract will be).
I love the Game of football but this hype filled, money obsessed soap opera narrative is so nauseating, and becoming ever more prevalent.
That'll be one heck of an adjustment. I'm surprised Thatcher hasn't done anything about it yet.
It isn't complicated, they are providing a service people want and who are willing to pay premium rates.
BT can justify it as a means of pulling in more customers for their broadband. They too will have done the sums and concluded that their bid is worth it.
Well it's not just about retaining subscribers for sky. Shareholders will want to see subs growing.
My local pays a fortune to Sky has they charge pubs on the rateable value.
If they lost football I doubt any pub would pay the massive amounts they charge