Originally Posted by Jokanovic:
“I wonder if they would dare go for a PL live package next time around ?”
No - these are way out of reach financially for any FTA channel. Sky & BT will get the packages between them.
Crozier said they weren't interested in PL rights last time round because the ad revenue would never cover the cost of the rights.
Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“ITV have placed too much importance on football, which means they now have little to show on their main channel sportswise after 2015( the IPL and the TT are too niche for ITV). They really should never have pulled out of boxing and athletics in the nineties.”
The athletics meetings that ITV were showing in the 1980s wouldn't get much of an audience these days. Only the World Championships & the Olympics are worth bothering with for the main ITV channel and the BBC have both of these.
Pay TV has priced most of boxing out of reach of terrestrial TV, Sky Sports & Sky Box Office have all the big fights.