Originally Posted by Andy23:
“When ITV's rating comes out tomorrow, nobody will bear this in mind and instead will just start debating whether they should give up their football contracts!”
I must have imagined the conversation we had on this thread two weeks ago about whether the Beeb might hold onto the Six Nations, that went on for a page or so. When those debates happen, nobody will bear this in mind and instead will just start debating whether this thread is biased against ITV, like it matters.
Originally Posted by RobbieSykes123:
“Two matches competing at the same time and one ratings buster match being shown on a Monday lunchtime.
They need to do something with their football contracts!”
They didn't buy the rights to the FA Cup based on getting Man U vs Chelsea in a replay, because it's a replay and there was just as much chance of them not getting any replays at all. They already got all the value they had budgeted for when they showed the original tie in a plum Sunday teatime slot. And it's not any old Monday afternoon, is it? Tell that to those who contribute to those boring threads on here moaning they're not showing anything special on a Bank Holiday.
And far better they end up having two matches at the same time in the Europa League both on ITV channels than going up against one on another channel, like when C5 had first choice rights. Sky have two British Champions League matches going up against each other several times a season, every week in the group stages and often in the knockout rounds.
I doubt the Beeb are particularly pleased that the Six Nations coverage ends with a complete dead rubber. That's sport.
Originally Posted by jda135:
“Actually, you'd have ESPN (or as it will be soon BT Sport).
Sky's Super Sunday audience only stretches between 1m-1.5m per game, with the occasional 2m. I'm pretty sure the games would attract around 1m (which is better than the current slot numbers).
Sky's prices are getting higher, and the new day passes they're introducing will probably take a few people away.”
I don't meant people will have Sky or ESPN to watch the Bundesliga, I mean they'll have Sky to watch the Premier League on a Sunday afternoon. I would estimate about 95% of football fans in the UK would opt for British football over German football, that is not being a little Englander, that is obvious. That's why the Spanish football on Sky gets massively lower ratings than the English football, even though the latter is almost all in primetime. And it's only massive football fans that are going to make up the audience for Bundesliga matches.
If people can't watch Man U vs Arsenal at home, they'll watch it in the pub, they're not going to watch Stuttgart vs Hoffenheim instead. I don't know how you can spin it'll get a million if Sky are only getting two million. Surely by that logic, if Sky's only getting two million for a British match, a German match would do umpteen times worse.
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