[Football] New SKY TV deal worth less

[BBassic]

I'd forgotten about the Saturday night fixture things. I f**king hate evening games.

 

[Silverhatch]

Telegraph reporting that the final two packages have not met their reserve price, the expected interest from the big internet players has not materialised and therefore the like for like deal for the domestic PL rights is, for the first time ever, deflationary. Scudamore will have to milk the international rights even harder to keep the revenue graph moving upwards.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Telegraph reporting that the final two packages have not met their reserve price, the expected interest from the big internet players has not materialised and therefore the like for like deal for the domestic PL rights is, for the first time ever, deflationary. Scudamore will have to milk the international rights even harder to keep the revenue graph moving upwards.

TV rights deals for the PL (taken from the graphic in this article from last Friday about the bidding process deadline closing http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42164708 )


2001-04 = 1.2bn
2004-07 = 1.024bn

1st time it's been deflationary?

 

[coagulantwolf]

Article from 2005 when Sky lost their monopoly on the Premier League: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4444684.stm

European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the new system would provide football fans with "greater choice and better value".

Has that really been the case? Has competition been that good? I'm against a monopoly of it, but conversely if I wanted to watch all Premier League football I'd have to get BT Sport AND Sky Sports, hardly cheap. And what do they compete in? It's not like the same fixture is broadcast on the same channel.

 

[Silverhatch]

1st time it's been deflationary?

Yep, you're right. Domestic rights did drop in the mid noughties.

 

[Greavsey]

Article from 2005 when Sky lost their monopoly on the Premier League: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4444684.stm

European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the new system would provide football fans with "greater choice and better value".

Has that really been the case? Has competition been that good? I'm against a monopoly of it, but conversely if I wanted to watch all Premier League football I'd have to get BT Sport AND Sky Sports, hardly cheap. And what do they compete in? It's not like the same fixture is broadcast on the same channel.

Completely agree, an example of regulation being completely counter intuitive. All it does is allow two companies to make money from the same consumer, who has to pay twice!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Let's look at facts .... 75% of the packages sold for 87% of the last bids return, seems like "upside" to me?

 

[mikeyjh]

TBH it just makes me want to puke. It's like actually negotiating TV deals is now part of the game. Well played sales executives! Football is f*cked

Same - I can cope with the big money deals - It's the market, as they say - but the ignorance of football further down the food chain is a disgrace. There are clubs in league 2 and beyond that have an equally, if not more, illustrious history than sum premier league clubs that are being forgotten about. Hartlepool are on the brink, what's happened to Maidstone, Darlington, Hereford etc etc is shameful. I've no doubt that the more people support teams outside the premier league than in and the FA et al do F all. Disgrace.

 

[Weststander]

Same - I can cope with the big money deals - It's the market, as they say - but the ignorance of football further down the food chain is a disgrace. There are clubs in league 2 and beyond that have an equally, if not more, illustrious history than sum premier league clubs that are being forgotten about. Hartlepool are on the brink, what's happened to Maidstone, Darlington, Hereford etc etc is shameful. I've no doubt that the more people support teams outside the premier league than in and the FA et al do F all. Disgrace.

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