TV Fixtures and TV Rights thread.

Festive schedule released, with Christmas Eve football back for the first time since '95. As much as I'm happy to have the games more evenly spread out, I'd be fuming if I was a Chelsea away fan. Trains in this country are poor on a good day, let alone xmas eve.

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Premier League to play first Christmas Eve game since 1995

A Premier League match will be played on Christmas Eve for the first time in 28 years when Wolves host Chelsea at Molineux.
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There aren't any London derbies that round of fixtures, Chelsea play Palace on the 27th which is the next round. The fixtures were already decided months ago it's just they've decided to move this game from 23rd to 24th, so there was no possibility to play a London derby.
 
Not what the PL wanted but not too bad for supporters. More games and one less subscription.
bingham67 said:
Nothing for Amazon rather strange.
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The PL gave Amazon a discount to persuade them to bid 6 years ago, in the hope that they'd make a big play for more rights in the future. Obviously that trial by Amazon wasn't successful enough for them to bid again and it's quite telling that no other streaming service has gone big either.
 
BaZ87 said:
Not what the PL wanted but not too bad for supporters. More games and one less subscription.

The PL gave Amazon a discount to persuade them to bid 6 years ago, in the hope that they'd make a big play for more rights in the future. Obviously that trial by Amazon wasn't successful enough for them to bid again and it's quite telling that no other streaming service has gone big either.
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We don't know who bid as it was a blind auction, designed that way to increase the bids. If Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Apple or Google bid then they were outbid by TNT/Sky.
 
MissChief said:
We don't know who bid as it was a blind auction, designed that way to increase the bids. If Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Apple or Google bid then they were outbid by TNT/Sky.
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Given the PL's willingness to do a deal with Amazon at below the reserve price at the last auction and there being no meaningful increase this time (given that more games have been sold, they're actually getting less per game than before), I'd be amazed if Amazon made any meaningful bid. The PL are gagging for Amazon or another streaming platform to come on board - that's why they offered whole midweek packages last time and why they're offering more simultaneous matches this time too.
 
BaZ87 said:
Given the PL's willingness to do a deal with Amazon at below the reserve price at the last auction and there being no meaningful increase this time (given that more games have been sold, they're actually getting less per game than before), I'd be amazed if Amazon made any meaningful bid. The PL are gagging for Amazon or another streaming platform to come on board - that's why they offered whole midweek packages last time and why they're offering more simultaneous matches this time too.
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The league basically went cap in hand to Amazon to get the final package sold to someone as neither Sky nor BT had any interest in that package. Midweek games are among the lowest viewed games, mainly because many of the games are on at the same time, splitting viewers.
Jimbeam3678 said:
You really believe palms are not greased whatsoever in this process :cry:
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if everything is above board then no. Sky have a long term historic relationship with the PL and BT/TNT do as well, although how chummy TNT and Sky are is unknown compared to when the last rights were bought and, although I have no real proof, I suspect they met and agreed what packages they wanted, knowing that their success is based on having the football.

Sky specially has deep pockets compared to previously when they likely took loans out to afford the payments. Now being owned by Comcast they didn’t have to this time.
 
MissChief said:
The league basically went cap in hand to Amazon to get the final package sold to someone as neither Sky nor BT had any interest in that package. Midweek games are among the lowest viewed games, mainly because many of the games are on at the same time, splitting viewers.

if everything is above board then no. Sky have a long term historic relationship with the PL and BT/TNT do as well, although how chummy TNT and Sky are is unknown compared to when the last rights were bought and, although I have no real proof, I suspect they met and agreed what packages they wanted, knowing that their success is based on having the football.

Sky specially has deep pockets compared to previously when they likely took loans out to afford the payments. Now being owned by Comcast they didn’t have to this time.
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With the greatest respect, I think you are being incredibly naive. Where there is enough money there is corruption to varying degrees, 6.7B is a **** ton of money!
 
MissChief said:
The league basically went cap in hand to Amazon to get the final package sold to someone as neither Sky nor BT had any interest in that package. Midweek games are among the lowest viewed games, mainly because many of the games are on at the same time, splitting viewers.
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There were two outstanding packages, one of which BT took and the other Amazon. It was widely reported before the auction that those two packages of games were created for Amazon or another streaming platform (previously you would only have 2 fixtures broadcast instead of all 10) and that the PL were open to selling them at a discounted rate to entice Amazon.
 
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