[Albion] £14.95 to watch Albion

[Alba Badger]

Well, i have paid all of my season ticket money for this season. Even if I have mentally written it off for most of the season but also having to pay for games at just under £15, not sure I can afford that 4 times a month.

 

[zefarelly]

Well, i have paid all of my season ticket money for this season. Even if I have mentally written it off for most of the season but also having to pay for games at just under £15, not sure I can afford that 4 times a month.

You'd expect the club to make available the finest coverage on the planet if you can't go there in person but you've paid for it all up front.

 

[BNthree]

Really don't understand why the PL and EFL haven't launched their own streaming services. Cut out the middleman and pocket the profit. No worries about selling they rights as they own the rights! Stream everything; sell match/day/week/month/year passes etc or stick a standard definition stream up for free with loads of adverts on the page. Something to suit all pockets, no pirate streams needed. Tech wise it is straight forward enough and from a business point of view it makes sense.

 

[Blazing Apostle]

Not a chance...must admit out of all the sports on atm footie without a crowd is the least entertaining - NFL, golf and cricket are eminently watchable without a crowd

 

[Normal Rob]

Funny init you would happily go to a pub watch the game and spend a load of dosh, yet bulk at £14.95 to watch at home.

At the pub that £14.95 gets me four pints, and the game's on the tele. Where's my free four pints with this?

 

[zefarelly]

NFL is unwatchable full stop.

its an odd price. especially given the cost of sky/BT subscription, and as PL clubs we get most/all televised at the moment. . . . I'd like to see an initiative to show league 1, 2 and champisionship games @ £5 or something . . . . cash less costs to clubs. its the very least the TV companies can do.

 

[bluenitsuj]

No thank you. Free to watch a stream.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Wouldn't a consequence of this be that people are likely to split the costs with mates, which results in households mixing to watch games?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I have Virgin VIP - £135 pcm for everything [but not Prime or Netflix]

All I really want is to be able to watch EVERY Brighton game - not interested in any of the other games.
I watch the cricket, BSB, WSB, MotoGP and F1 - that it.

So I'd be very happy to pay no more and maybe trade my golf / NFL / NBA and other junk just to watch the Albion regularly.

I did try dodgy streaming a few years back but the freezing and loss of quality / signal became unbearable.

£14.95 PPV is NOT an option, so what is? {to align to my viewing requirements]
Didn't someone hint that @Swindon has got some Canadian fire stick for a tenner per month where you can watch any game you want? That's more like it.

 

[Gwylan]

Is this £14.95 for Sky subscribers only or for all? The article doesn't make that bit clear

If it's the latter, I'd be tempted by it, but if it's £14.95 + Sky sub, then no, it's not worth it

 

[The Large One]

The irony is that Brighton & Hove Albion will be a beneficiary inasmuch as ALL revenues are slung into the pot and distributed evenly. So if there was a game of two big teams were not on the box, more people may well cough up to watch it compared to a game of, say Brighton v Fulham. And we'd see an increase into our 1/20th of the kitty.

However, because Brighton will be on the box fewer times than Man C, Liverpool, Leeds Utd et al, we'll be paying more times than many others to watch our own team.

 

[The Large One]

Is this £14.95 for Sky subscribers only or for all? The article doesn't make that bit clear

If it's the latter, I'd be tempted by it, but if it's £14.95 + Sky sub, then no, it's not worth it

This hasn't been worked out yet.

Don't forget, this ISN'T a final decision. Merely an interim announcement while talks between the broadcasters, the DCMS, the PL and supporters goes on.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

Yep we had to renew in March! Direct debits still going out and those that pay by lump sum did so before the last season ended.

So potentially people are paying for a season ticket they can't use, a sky and BT subscription.... and now they want 15 quid for matches that you might've seen with the season ticket you're paying for anyway?

Shouldn't the clubs be sorting out an Albion TV style membership for ST holders?!

 

[brightn'ove]

I must admit I don't entirely understand why, when they were able to show MORE games, they were owed money!

US broadcasters seem to be able to broadcast every single premier league game without much fuss.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

Really don't understand why the PL and EFL haven't launched their own streaming services. Cut out the middleman and pocket the profit. No worries about selling they rights as they own the rights! Stream everything; sell match/day/week/month/year passes etc or stick a standard definition stream up for free with loads of adverts on the page. Something to suit all pockets, no pirate streams needed. Tech wise it is straight forward enough and from a business point of view it makes sense.

Like the NFL (I think).

 

[The Large One]

Really don't understand why the PL and EFL haven't launched their own streaming services. Cut out the middleman and pocket the profit. No worries about selling they rights as they own the rights! Stream everything; sell match/day/week/month/year passes etc or stick a standard definition stream up for free with loads of adverts on the page. Something to suit all pockets, no pirate streams needed. Tech wise it is straight forward enough and from a business point of view it makes sense.

Because they are football clubs, administratively run as such, not broadasters.

To have each club's own streaming services, you need fully functioning, state-of-the-art broadcasting equipment, technicians, support staff, licences (UK and international), and on and on, with no £100m reward.

You'll also see Man C, Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal etc run away with the viewing numbers, leaving the likes of Brighton in its wake, and the gap between the large and small clubs widening further still. If Brighton made £10m from this, I'd be astonished. Man U, with its worldwide appeal, on the other hand, would easily clean up with 50x more.

 

[e77]

If it is £15 for each Brighton game I can certainly live with having MOTD for highlights of other matches so it might work out cheaper to stop my Sky+ subscription unless we get on TV three or four times a month.

Which is what makes me think they won't do it.

 

[Deanbha]

Think any clubs season ticket holders should be issued a free pass to watch.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Why is it a bad move ?

The games they are making available for £14.95 aren’t currently being shown on TV so I’m not sure how they stand to lose anything.

At the moment they are available for "free". (Accepting that Free can mean ST, plus BT Sport, plus Sky subscription, Plus amazon Prime, Plus TV licence)

15 quid a game on top of that is a step too far for me. Especially if they want pubs to cough up an additional shed load as well (given the hit they've taken)

 

[East Staffs Gull]

I’ll have to pay, because I don’t want to miss an Albion game, but I won’t now donate my season ticket money to the club. As a result the club will be worse off financially.