Football TV Rights

kaiowas · 28 Apr 2006 at 10:32

Just seen on BBC that Sky have only won the rights to 3 of the 6 packages available from 2007 onwards. Typically they don't yet say who has got the other 3 which would make a much more useful/interesting story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953846.stm

Faz · 28 Apr 2006 at 10:35

Just seen this aswell, sort of does'nt tell you anything

Setanta were widely tipped to get some coverage, although some so called experts tipped sky to get 5 of the 6 packages available lol

edit the remaining 3 packages are going to a second round of bidding Link

Burned_Alive · 28 Apr 2006 at 11:11

Surely that means Sky could still purchase a further 2 packages in the second round of bidding

kaiowas · 28 Apr 2006 at 11:18

Burned_Alive said:
Surely that means Sky could still purchase a further 2 packages in the second round of bidding

Yeah the story has been updated a bit since I posted. At first it only mentioned that Sky had 3 packages and didn't mention the others at all.

One More Solo · 28 Apr 2006 at 14:11

Genius, take the rights off Sky to prevent competition, and make consumers pay more if they want to see all the games. Great work, guys.

Nim · 5 May 2006 at 17:13

BBC ticker says that Setanta have grabbed 2 of the 3 remaining.

Edit: Sky got the other one, obviously.

bungler · 5 May 2006 at 17:26

Sky got the Sunday 4pm package. Seems to me the main difference is Sky get 4 extra games and the prem plus ppv goes to Setanta.

bingham67 · 5 May 2006 at 17:41

new link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4975632.stm

Phil99 · 5 May 2006 at 17:43

I wonder if Sky will reduce the price of Sky Sports in light of this?

Setanta looks to be another £14 a month on Sky

bungler · 5 May 2006 at 17:45

Phil99 said:
I wonder if Sky will reduce the price of Sky Sports in light of this?

Setanta looks to be another £14 a month on Sky

Doubt it. You actually get 4 more games than at the moment.

cheets64 · 5 May 2006 at 18:29

Oh Dear, So there is the Sky Sports package £36 a Month plus SKY+ £10 Then PremPlus £50 a year then Setanta £15 a month.

So thats £782 a year just to watch the Premiership. :eek:

bungler · 5 May 2006 at 18:33

cheets64 said:
Oh Dear, So there is the Sky Sports package £36 a Month plus SKY+ £10 Then PremPlus £50 a year then Setanta £15 a month.

So thats £782 a year just to watch the Premiership.

Sky have 92 games, all on sky sports. The have basically lost the 50 prem plus pay per view games to Setanta, although Setanta have only 46 (the other 4 being added to Sky's package). I think Setanta are offering them as ppv and yearly subscription so as long as they charge similay to prem plus we end up with the same number of games as now for roughly the same price.

Edit: I don't think you don't pay £10 for Sky+ if you have premium channels ie sports.

SexyGreyFox · 5 May 2006 at 18:50

For many years I've had a one metre dish pointed at satellites and on 13E are channels by the Arabic ART Sports. There are four sports channels and on a saturday afternoon all four channels will show four different premier matches with english commentary. They also show saturday dinner, saturday teatime, sunday 2pm, sunday 4pm, monday 8pm etc and all legal with an official ART Sports card.

Tomorrow it shows these live :
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Manchester Utd v Charlton
Newcastle v Chelsea
West Ham v Tottenham

http://64.77.87.5/sport/british.html

Martynt74 · 5 May 2006 at 18:56

dmpoole said:
Tomorrow it shows these live :
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Manchester Utd v Charlton
Newcastle v Chelsea
West Ham v Tottenham

http://64.77.87.5/sport/british.html

I see it sees ahead 24hours aswell

Morba · 5 May 2006 at 18:58

dmpoole said:
Tomorrow it shows these live :
Arsenal v Wigan
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Manchester Utd v Charlton
Newcastle v Chelsea
West Ham v Tottenham

http://64.77.87.5/sport/british.html

Its showing those 2moro?
Damn i gotta get me one of those!

Morba · 5 May 2006 at 19:00

Marvt74 said:
I see it sees ahead 24hours aswell

damn you!

Nedved11 · 5 May 2006 at 19:20

Setanta commentary is even more dire than SKY Sports.

They hve some of the Italian coverage too as well as the French and SPL...

They have a Setanta PPV channel already which shows the same stuff that is on SKY Sports PPV channel

Vandle · 5 May 2006 at 19:25

cheets64 said:
Oh Dear, So there is the Sky Sports package £36 a Month plus SKY+ £10 Then PremPlus £50 a year then Setanta £15 a month.

So thats £782 a year just to watch the Premiership.

You can get a season ticket for a premier league team for half that.
If people keep paying then sky will keep increasing the price.

lemonkettaz · 5 May 2006 at 19:26

its sick...

for the people that wont pay for it though there will be 10 that will..

so nobody cares

NokkonWud · 5 May 2006 at 20:22

Sky do the best coverage anyway, shame they don't have them all.