hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
It's a very smug opinion to say don't pay for it if you don't want to but i already am with my subscription !!
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
Sorry Beds, can't agree with you on this one.
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
If you think Brighton v Burnley is a more prestigious game then you've been watching Charlton for too long. You may well be right that in the future the best games will be on PPV but Sky will have to announce it and you can then adjust your subscription accordingly.
PS I don't work for Sky or BT before I get accused of having vested interest.
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
It's a very smug opinion to say don't pay for it if you don't want to but i already am with my subscription !!
No what you signed up for was 128-games on Sky Sports along with 80-games from the EFL
Instead you could end up getting just short of 380 from the Premier League if SKY have half the whole season between themselves and BT - The fact that BT have already shown Everton v Liverpool, and SKY have shown Man Utd v Arsenal when they could have put them behind PPV shows that it probably wasnt going to be a road they'd go down with the "prestige games"
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
If you think Brighton v Burnley is a more prestigious game then you've been watching Charlton for too long. You may well be right that in the future the best games will be on PPV but Sky will have to announce it and you can then adjust your subscription accordingly.
PS I don't work for Sky or BT before I get accused of having vested interest.
Brighton v Burnley this month but it will be City v Liverpool next season and we all know it.
To be honest I’d quite happily get rid of Premier League football from my Sky Sports if It was an option . BT lead the way with their champions league coverage and soccer Saturday is awful now it’s gone all politically correct . I watch far more cricket on Sky than football and that why I still have it .
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
Sorry Beds, can't agree with you on this one.
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
I’m not disagreeing that contractually SKY are in the right but morally ? Nah I’m not having that . I never knew they were going pay per view for premier league games when I signed up . That was never advertised. If I did , I doubt I would have done . Id have probably looked for a dodgy stream instead as people are increasingly doing .
Before the games were made ppv Sky/BT customers who were also season ticket holders at a premier league club could watch all their clubs matches at no extra cost, now they have to fork out £14.95 even if their club is playing at home. If you are a season ticket holder at an EFL club you do not need a SKY/BT subscription to see all your clubs matches as they are available on IPlayer.
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
Sorry Beds, can't agree with you on this one.
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
I’m not disagreeing that contractually SKY are in the right but morally ? Nah I’m not having that . I never knew they were going pay per view for premier league games when I signed up . That was never advertised. If I did , I doubt I would have done . Id have probably looked for a dodgy stream instead as people are increasingly doing .
But you are still getting all the games you would have initially got before covid and if fans were allowed to attend in your subscription.
The PPV games are just the extra games that would not have been on TV
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
Sorry Beds, can't agree with you on this one.
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
I’m not disagreeing that contractually SKY are in the right but morally ? Nah I’m not having that . I never knew they were going pay per view for premier league games when I signed up . That was never advertised. If I did , I doubt I would have done . Id have probably looked for a dodgy stream instead as people are increasingly doing .
But you are still getting all the games you would have initially got before covid and if fans were allowed to attend in your subscription.
The PPV games are just the extra games that would not have been on TV
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I think you've missed your own point. PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well? The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
I don't know why people are complaining about Sky/BT charging extra to watch PPV games. The Premier league set the price and Sky/BT is just the platform they're shown on. I don't know if Sky/BT get any of the money but they certainly don't get it all.
BT and Sky buy the rights from the PL for big bucks and recoup their money from the TV subscriptions including PPV.
9 Oct 2020 ...Sky and BT Sport will host games on their box office channels costing ... All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters.
Wrong.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
Sorry Beds, can't agree with you on this one.
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
I’m not disagreeing that contractually SKY are in the right but morally ? Nah I’m not having that . I never knew they were going pay per view for premier league games when I signed up . That was never advertised. If I did , I doubt I would have done . Id have probably looked for a dodgy stream instead as people are increasingly doing .
Did you sign up after February 2020? If not no one could have known what was going to happen so they could hardly advertise that because no supporters could attend games all Premier league games would be shown for free initially and that the Premier league would then charge for games that were not part of the original package.
Before the games were made ppv Sky/BT customers who were also season ticket holders at a premier league club could watch all their clubs matches at no extra cost, now they have to fork out £14.95 even if their club is playing at home. If you are a season ticket holder at an EFL club you do not need a SKY/BT subscription to see all your clubs matches as they are available on IPlayer.
Yeah thats what I dont agree with
If Premier League clubs were able to get £15 from Season Ticket holders then they're effectively scamming fans
If they've issued refunds (Yeah I bet some havent) then its a little more understandable
Before the games were made ppv Sky/BT customers who were also season ticket holders at a premier league club could watch all their clubs matches at no extra cost, now they have to fork out £14.95 even if their club is playing at home. If you are a season ticket holder at an EFL club you do not need a SKY/BT subscription to see all your clubs matches as they are available on IPlayer.
Yeah thats what I dont agree with
If Premier League clubs were able to get £15 from Season Ticket holders then they're effectively scamming fans
If they've issued refunds (Yeah I bet some havent) then its a little more understandable
Although in fairness that is nothing to do with Sky or BT.
hold on, so people are moaning that they are seeing all the games they would have seen with their subscriptions but are angry they need to pay extra to watch others games that they have not actually previously paid to watch.
Yes this is exactly it
I get £14.99 was expensive but Championship and below have been paying £10 all season and no ine cared but as soon as premier league clubs had tk start paying £14.99 it was a massive issue lol
Because I pay over £70 a month for my sky and Sky Sports and I shouldn’t be expected to pay more for Premier League games .
Dont buy the games then, you knew what you were getting before you signed up. Sky advertise exactly how many matches the play per season.
Maybe I have missed your point.
You're right.
You've missed my point.
I don't want the premium games put on Pay Per View when those games would have been ordinarily available with my SKY subscription.
If you think that won't happen ( and it already started to last month) then you are naive.
It's not about how many games i knew sky would show , it's about which games they would show.
Ok fine, I understand what you mean. I would be surprised if Sky stated switching out the Man U v Man City or the Spurs v Arsenal matches for Brighton v Wolves and Southampton v Newcastle. Like you said, there would indeed be a lot of annoyed customers and I dont think it would go unnoticed. Do bear in mind they appear to have ditched the PPV model now.
Some fixtures will be shown on the BBC, perhaps I'm going blind, but I can only see one.
Presumably the BBC will be getting more games. The article says there won't be any more PPV games until at least the new year, yet only list TV fixtures for November. Therefore we can summise the BBC will have one or more games in December.
Apple getting involved in the next round of domestic TV rights? Potentially consolidating everything under one service? Not sure how SKY and BT would feel about that...
Apple TV are preparing a bid for the next set of Premier League domestic television rights that would transform the way the topflight is broadcast in this country. The tech giant are looking to increase their live football coverage, with a 10-year contract to broadcast Major League Soccer beginning next month. They have already dipped their toe into the Premier League market by making a documentary about the European Super League, called The War for Football, which was released yesterday. The Premier League’s current three-year deal with Sky Sports and BT Sport expires in 2025, with the tender process for the next set of rights due to begin later this year. Many clubs with American owners, such as Chelsea under Todd Boehly, are convinced that at £5.1billion over three years the current rights are undervalued and are looking to US tech companies to drive up the price. A serious bid from Apple is the biggest threat to Sky Sports’ dominance of Premier League coverage since they gained exclusive rights to the competition in 1992, as they have the financial clout to challenge them.
SKY wouldn't survive this and it would be death of cable in the UK. Prob long overdue and ultimately inevitable.
Presumably Apple would offer a two tier subscription, i.e. price with and price without Premier League. Be interesting to see how they'd price the football.
Apple must be tempted by overseas Premier League broadcast rights too. Far cheaper than UK rights but with a very loyal following.
What may have held Tech giants back to date is the falling numbers of viewers of Premier League on British TV. It has surely reached saturation point and the predictability makes the league too stale to sustain attention across the whole season. Even though I have SKY, I very rarely tune into Super Sunday or MNF. I'll watch whilst eating dinner if it's on but most games are pretty unspectacular.
That coupled with oft reported short attention spans of younger gens possibly means interest is genuinely waning and likely to decline further.
Do Tech giants want to invest in a long term contract for EPL with a European Super League of some sort a likely prospect over the next ten years? Maybe hold back and then go big with a bid for ESL rights?
The problem with Sky is that make you pay for their basic package then you need to add Sports, if you are interested in the Entertainment stuff thats fine. But it really bumps up the package.
Even with their new pucks that stream via the internet has the same issue, missed a trick as far as I am concerned.
Kind of related, the first season of Your Honor was great but I discovered yesterday in order to watch the new one I need Paramount plus. Can see this kind of thing happening, wondering when HBO will launch their own service here in the UK.
Sky need to really adapt or be left behind. I know they make their own content, but not enough imo.
I have the full sky package, but unless they change their attitude to non Premier League coverage I'm out as soon as my contract ends. Sky sports news is ALL about the PL. Transfer show ALL PL, early morning show ALL PL! There are 72 clubs in the EFL, and 20 in PL, yet PL get 90% coverage....I've had enough!
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PPV is an added option to your monthly subscription. Do you expect to get all the boxing that is on PPV for free as well?
The additional games that are on PPV are just that additional games and before you moan about Sky/BT making loads out of this.
If you don't want to pay you don't pay.
Pay Per View wasn't an option when i signed up and i didn't expect the more prestige games to cost me £15 a piece and that's exactly what SKY will do if they get half the chance.
It's a very smug opinion to say don't pay for it if you don't want to but i already am with my subscription !!
When you sign up to Sky and BT, you are paying for a specific amount of games, something like 140 or whatever it is. That's literally what you agreed to pay for. There's nothing in that contract that says anything about what they may or may not do with the remaining 240 games. That's up to them. They can't take away any games from your deal, and because of the way the rights work, they're unlikely to add them (although obviosuly they did, and you got tons of extra games in Project Restart).
The PPV exists now in order to make sure supporters get to see the games they would normally be watching live, because of COVID. Personally, I think they should be free. Football clubs are loaded, even in this crazy time, and can afford to be generous. Maybe 5-10 quid tops. 15 is pure greed, so fuck them.
But I cannot agree with your assessment that it impacts your Sky subscription in any way.
It's exactly the same as PPV movies on Sky Store or Amazon - they're not part of your subscription, and never were.
You may well be right that in the future the best games will be on PPV but Sky will have to announce it and you can then adjust your subscription accordingly.
PS I don't work for Sky or BT before I get accused of having vested interest.
Instead you could end up getting just short of 380 from the Premier League if SKY have half the whole season between themselves and BT - The fact that BT have already shown Everton v Liverpool, and SKY have shown Man Utd v Arsenal when they could have put them behind PPV shows that it probably wasnt going to be a road they'd go down with the "prestige games"
I watch far more cricket on Sky than football and that why I still have it .
If you are a season ticket holder at an EFL club you do not need a SKY/BT subscription to see all your clubs matches as they are available on IPlayer.
The PPV games are just the extra games that would not have been on TV
If not no one could have known what was going to happen so they could hardly advertise that because no supporters could attend games all Premier league games would be shown for free initially and that the Premier league would then charge for games that were not part of the original package.
If Premier League clubs were able to get £15 from Season Ticket holders then they're effectively scamming fans
If they've issued refunds (Yeah I bet some havent) then its a little more understandable
I would be surprised if Sky stated switching out the Man U v Man City or the Spurs v Arsenal matches for Brighton v Wolves and Southampton v Newcastle. Like you said, there would indeed be a lot of annoyed customers and I dont think it would go unnoticed.
Do bear in mind they appear to have ditched the PPV model now.
The Premier League has scrapped its pay-per-view method for matches until at least the new year, and some fixtures will now be shown on the BBC.
Fulham's game against Everton on Sunday, 22 November (12:00 GMT) will be screened live on BBC One.
The Premier League said all remaining games in November and over the Christmas and New Year period will be shown on existing broadcast services.
How to watch Premier League in November
All times in GMT
Saturday, 21 November
Newcastle v Chelsea (12:30) - BT Sport
Aston Villa v Brighton (15:00) - BT Sport
Tottenham v Manchester City (17:30) - Sky Sports
Manchester United v West Brom (20:00) - BT Sport
Sunday, 22 November
Fulham v Everton (12:00) - BBC One
Sheffield United v West Ham (14:00) - Sky Sports
Leeds v Arsenal (16:30) - Sky Sports
Liverpool v Leicester (19:15) - Sky Sports
Monday, 23 November
Burnley v Crystal Palace (17:30) - Sky Sports
Wolves v Southampton (20:00) - Sky Sports
Friday, 27 November
Crystal Palace v Newcastle (20:00) - Amazon Prime
Saturday, 28 November
Brighton v Liverpool (12:30) - BT Sport
Manchester City v Burnley (15:00) - BT Sport
Everton v Leeds (17:30) - Sky Sports
West Brom v Sheffield United (20:00) - Sky Sports
Sunday, 29 November
Southampton v Manchester United (14:00) - Sky Sports
Chelsea v Tottenham (16:30) - Sky Sports
Arsenal v Wolves (19:15) - Sky Sports
Monday, 30 November
Leicester v Fulham (17:30) - Sky Sports
West Ham v Aston Villa (20:00) - Sky Sports
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54932314
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11633733/Apple-TV-set-enter-bidding-war-Premier-League-rights.html
The tech giant are looking to increase their live football coverage, with a 10-year contract to broadcast Major League Soccer beginning next month.
They have already dipped their toe into the Premier League market by making a documentary about the European Super League, called The War for Football, which was released yesterday.
The Premier League’s current three-year deal with Sky Sports and BT Sport expires in 2025, with the tender process for the next set of rights due to begin later this year.
Many clubs with American owners, such as Chelsea under Todd Boehly, are convinced that at £5.1billion over three years the current rights are undervalued and are looking to US tech companies to drive up the price.
A serious bid from Apple is the biggest threat to Sky Sports’ dominance of Premier League coverage since they gained exclusive rights to the competition in 1992, as they have the financial clout to challenge them.
Presumably Apple would offer a two tier subscription, i.e. price with and price without Premier League. Be interesting to see how they'd price the football.
Apple must be tempted by overseas Premier League broadcast rights too. Far cheaper than UK rights but with a very loyal following.
What may have held Tech giants back to date is the falling numbers of viewers of Premier League on British TV. It has surely reached saturation point and the predictability makes the league too stale to sustain attention across the whole season. Even though I have SKY, I very rarely tune into Super Sunday or MNF. I'll watch whilst eating dinner if it's on but most games are pretty unspectacular.
That coupled with oft reported short attention spans of younger gens possibly means interest is genuinely waning and likely to decline further.
Do Tech giants want to invest in a long term contract for EPL with a European Super League of some sort a likely prospect over the next ten years? Maybe hold back and then go big with a bid for ESL rights?
Even with their new pucks that stream via the internet has the same issue, missed a trick as far as I am concerned.
Kind of related, the first season of Your Honor was great but I discovered yesterday in order to watch the new one I need Paramount plus. Can see this kind of thing happening, wondering when HBO will launch their own service here in the UK.
Sky need to really adapt or be left behind. I know they make their own content, but not enough imo.
Sky sports news is ALL about the PL. Transfer show ALL PL, early morning show ALL PL! There are 72 clubs in the EFL, and 20 in PL, yet PL get 90% coverage....I've had enough!