That's shat news for ESPN, and Virgin Media. Potentially great news for BT Vision/Broadband customers who will probably get EPL footy at a reduced price.
Significantly, BT won Package A (Saturday 12.45 kickoffs) which has over 20 1st pick games, to appeal to the Far East EPL fans.
70% increase paid compared to last time. Just goes to show how unreal football is these days: families struggling to put food on the table but £3 billion can still be spent on televised football...
I wouldn't want to be a Sky employee when that happens. That whole business is built on EPL football and the customers willing to pay insane amounts every year to watch it.
I wouldn't want to be a Sky employee when that happens. That whole business is built on EPL football and the customers willing to pay insane amounts every year to watch it.
True. ESPN had problems last season when they didn't pick up the rights to the NHL. Thousands unsubscribed to them leaving a rather large dent in their pockets as they were the only channel to show NHL in Europe!
They've got them back for next season, but I think it's to late. Because Europe was left without NHL, the league itself created NHLGameCenter. Gamecenter allows you to watch entire games live or not via the Internet. It shows every game too! I know I like it
70% increase paid compared to last time. Just goes to show how unreal football is these days: families struggling to put food on the table but £3 billion can still be spent on televised football...
This only encourages the continuation of paying some of these egotistical moronic clowns £260,000 + PER WEEK or £13,520,000 pa for kicking a ball about !!!
The Premier League get's the lions share and the rest peanuts.
To further this unsustainable madness is bordering on criminal and the obscene wages this generates bear no relationship to any other sport for effort expended v value for money.
How on earth can this continue with clubs collapsing around our ears (including of course CCFC) in a sea of debt to compete with their peers whilst the Football League, the FA and Sky blatantly ignores the lower leagues.
Want to know the funny thing? Arsenal are the only club in in premier league who invest money in their womens teams. However, its the players that give the money, not willingly, its in their contracts.
Didn't that pub Landlady win her case to show football from other EU providers (via a Greek sat company)? I thought it also applied to home users aswell? Surely a much cheaper option than Sky?
Didn't that pub Landlady win her case to show football from other EU providers (via a Greek sat company)? I thought it also applied to home users aswell? Surely a much cheaper option than Sky?