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midweek matches streamed live from next season (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter skybluesam66
  • Start date Sep 12, 2017
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skybluesam66

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #1
new tv deal means all midweek matches can be streamed live from next season

Sky to stream midweek English Football League games after new £600m TV deal
 
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Nick

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #2
Decent news for people who can't make the games, bad news as people who can make the games might choose this instead.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #3
That article is all over the place. Headline says Football league then the article says Championship.

It also goes from talking about midweek matches to all matches not between 14:45 and 17:15 on a Saturday.

Talks about Sky streaming games but then says the streams will be on club websites if they aren't broadcast on Sky.
 

Nick

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #4
Yeah I got confused, i assume they will just open up more to ifollow.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #5
In an astounding turn of events, the Cov Telegraph have clarified what the BBC have fudged

EFL will be offering its clubs the opportunity to live-stream in the UK and Ireland any league match via their respective iFollow (or equivalent)service that takes place outside the blocked hours of 2.245pm and 5.15pm on Saturday afternoons and that is not broadcast live on Sky Sports.
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Basically iFollow can show live games any time that isn't either a Saturday 3pm game or when we're on Sky so it's Sunday games too theoretically which may apply around Christmas.
 

chiefdave

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #6
That was always the plan wasn't it? Sure they said that when iFollow first came in for those overseas.
 

Nick

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #7
Yeah it was said a few months ago.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #8
I don't remember seeing that, I thought it was VPN forever for anyone willing to gamble.

Looking at our fixture list this season I make it 12 league games that would be viewable under this. Does iFollow have a day pass kind of thing or is it subscriptions only?
 

Nick

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #9
ajsccfc said:
I don't remember seeing that, I thought it was VPN forever for anyone willing to gamble.

Looking at our fixture list this season I make it 12 league games that would be viewable under this. Does iFollow have a day pass kind of thing or is it subscriptions only?
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You can buy it for about £6 (I think).
 
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covcity4life

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #10
this confirmed for league 2 and 1? i heard on radio only championship
 

covcity4life

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #11
oh ok good news.
 

skybluebeduff

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #12
Any bit of money helps
 
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Suffolk sky blues

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #13
They need to get with the times get ticket prices down every game should be on tv.
 

covcity4life

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #14
bit harsh though if championship fans get this coverage included in sky package

yet l1 and l2 fans that pay for sky still have to pay extra for ifollow
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #15
Sky's pursuit of making football spectating for domestic fans being through a television only.

You'll have empty lower league grounds with fans of lower league clubs encouraged to pay inflated Sky subscriptions to watch their team, all so that Sky can throw even more on top of the billions already at 20 Premier League teams, further widening the gap between the haves and have nots.
 
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skyblueelephant76

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #16
skybluesam66 said:
new tv deal means all midweek matches can be streamed live from next season

Sky to stream midweek English Football League games after new £600m TV deal
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It's from 2019, not next season.
 

ccfcway

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #17
fernandopartridge said:
Sky's pursuit of making football spectating for domestic fans being through a television only.

You'll have empty lower league grounds with fans of lower league clubs encouraged to pay inflated Sky subscriptions to watch their team, all so that Sky can throw even more on top of the billions already at 20 Premier League teams, further widening the gap between the haves and have nots.
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Our owners have taken us from 19k to 7k. Sky's the least of our problems
 

chiefdave

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #18
fernandopartridge said:
Sky's pursuit of making football spectating for domestic fans being through a television only.
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And then when people lost interest and stop watching they'll wonder what happened.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 12, 2017
  • #19
ccfcway said:
Our owners have taken us from 19k to 7k. Sky's the least of our problems
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Sky are the reason we have got the owners we have.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Sep 13, 2017
  • #20
This is terrible really. Imagine if tonight's game was streamed, the crowd would have been 1000 down.
 

chiefdave

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  • Sep 13, 2017
  • #21
pusbccfc said:
This is terrible really. Imagine if tonight's game was streamed, the crowd would have been 1000 down.
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It was, every game is streamed live. Only restriction is not to UK users but that's easy to get round.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Sep 13, 2017
  • #22
chiefdave said:
It was, every game is streamed live. Only restriction is not to UK users but that's easy to get round.
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Yeah, but it's not accessed by the common fan.
 
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