SKY tv Value?

[severnside gull]

I will admit to having a very biased viewpoint. As a long distance season ticket holder I especially love Saturday games. Indeed I'm not averse to Sunday games. Relatively easy travelling starting out at a sensible time and getting home at a sensible time. However I am getting to an age where arriving home from evening matches at 2 in the morning is a struggle and travelling down for a Friday night game (a fair drive before even reaching the M25 and a pretty much unavoidable 5 to 6 hour trip down compared to the usual 3 hours) is a no-no.

After the latest tv-inspired match day change I admit to being more than a little peeved on a personal level but there's more to it than that. Increasingly I can't help thinking, should the Championship be questioning whether they are effectively sponsoring the Premier League? It seems that we get very little of the money from SKY for fairly extensive coverage while the slush fund is used to plump up the EPL big boys and subsidise their losers via parachute payments. Should The "lesser" leagues get a bigger cut for the seemingly ever increasing part they play to boosting SKY Sports' audiences?

 

[beorhthelm]

Sky have a separate deal with the Football League for showing the Championship and lower divisions.

 

[atomised]

Parachute payments come from the premier league deal not the football league one

 

[Blackadder]

I will admit to having a very biased viewpoint. As a long distance season ticket holder I especially love Saturday games. Indeed I'm not averse to Sunday games. Relatively easy travelling starting out at a sensible time and getting home at a sensible time. However I am getting to an age where arriving home from evening matches at 2 in the morning is a struggle and travelling down for a Friday night game (a fair drive before even reaching the M25 and a pretty much unavoidable 5 to 6 hour trip down compared to the usual 3 hours) is a no-no.

After the latest tv-inspired match day change I admit to being more than a little peeved on a personal level but there's more to it than that. Increasingly I can't help thinking, should the Championship be questioning whether they are effectively sponsoring the Premier League? It seems that we get very little of the money from SKY for fairly extensive coverage while the slush fund is used to plump up the EPL big boys and subsidise their losers via parachute payments. Should The "lesser" leagues get a bigger cut for the seemingly ever increasing part they play to boosting SKY Sports' audiences?

Very good point SG. I was thinking along the same lines following today's latest switch.

If we had 9 games in the PL, I wonder how much we would have received from the Sky Cash Cow?

Are there any PL clubs that have been/will be shown less than 9 times this season (Sky probably haven't finished with us, there will be at least 2 more IF we make the Play-offs).

 

[Mr Putdown]

It seems that we get very little of the money from SKY for fairly extensive coverage while the slush fund is used to plump up the EPL big boys and subsidise their losers via parachute payments. Should The "lesser" leagues get a bigger cut for the seemingly ever increasing part they play to boosting SKY Sports' audiences?

Here's your answer

 

[Rugrat]

Sky have a separate deal with the Football League for showing the Championship and lower divisions.

... and as we know the FL are adept negotiators!

 

[atomised]

I have in mind that the Derby and Wednesday games at home will both end up televised and at least one more away before the seasons done

 

[Mr Putdown]

If we had 9 games in the PL, I wonder how much we would have received from the Sky Cash Cow?

Are there any PL clubs that have been/will be shown less than 9 times this season (Sky probably haven't finished with us, there will be at least 2 more IF we make the Play-offs).

The English broadcast income for clubs is generated in three parts: 50% shared between the 20 clubs equally, 25% in facility fees and 25% in merit payments which depend upon where a club finish in the league table. Facility fees are paid to each club every time their matches are shown on UK television, with each club being guaranteed a minimum of ten fees.

 

[Eddy Gemmell]

I will admit to having a very biased viewpoint. As a long distance season ticket holder I especially love Saturday games. Indeed I'm not averse to Sunday games. Relatively easy travelling starting out at a sensible time and getting home at a sensible time. However I am getting to an age where arriving home from evening matches at 2 in the morning is a struggle and travelling down for a Friday night game (a fair drive before even reaching the M25 and a pretty much unavoidable 5 to 6 hour trip down compared to the usual 3 hours) is a no-no.

After the latest tv-inspired match day change I admit to being more than a little peeved on a personal level but there's more to it than that. Increasingly I can't help thinking, should the Championship be questioning whether they are effectively sponsoring the Premier League? It seems that we get very little of the money from SKY for fairly extensive coverage while the slush fund is used to plump up the EPL big boys and subsidise their losers via parachute payments. Should The "lesser" leagues get a bigger cut for the seemingly ever increasing part they play to boosting SKY Sports' audiences?

I agree. I'm a little north of London and travelling home from evening game usually means getting in a midnight. I make them rarely for that reason. I'm torn though with the convenience of watching from home! Nothing beats being there, don't get me wrong, but sometime (when it's bl**dy cold, etc) I'm not all that miffed.

 

[Blackadder]

I have in mind that the Derby and Wednesday games at home will both end up televised and at least one more away before the seasons done

Wouldn't discount Burnley either.

 

[atomised]

Wouldn't discount Burnley either.

Only reason I had for now was the away game with them having been on but im sure that doesnt make a huge difference