Ukraine v England to be broadcasted ONLINE ONLY!!

(12-10-2009 00:03 )firekind Wrote:  they estimate nearly 500 000 people watched it lol. with a buy rate like that i would expect more matches to be ppv on sky now. you really have to hand it to england fans. all the dumb fucks had to do was either boycott the match, watch it in the pub or find a free stream online. now it is shown that they will pay for a match that was pointless i don't expect to hear them moaning when it becomes a regular event.

PPV has been in the pipeline for a long time. It's been coming for years, even if people such as yourself have only just realised it.

For anyone who may not know, the game with Belarus on Wednesday is live on ITV1.

(12-10-2009 07:19 )7 stars of the orient Wrote:  

(12-10-2009 00:03 )firekind Wrote:  they estimate nearly 500 000 people watched it lol. with a buy rate like that i would expect more matches to be ppv on sky now. you really have to hand it to england fans. all the dumb fucks had to do was either boycott the match, watch it in the pub or find a free stream online. now it is shown that they will pay for a match that was pointless i don't expect to hear them moaning when it becomes a regular event.

PPV has been in the pipeline for a long time. It's been coming for years, even if people such as yourself have only just realised it.

England PPV has not been in the pipeline, sure club games (well they have been, look at premplus), but it would cause a huge outrage if England matches were all PPV, the sort of shit where the PM would get involved to appear popular even though they never watch any footy (I am talking about any PM, future, past or present, you know it to be true). And public backlash would mean the games are never going to be PPV, Sky were banned from buying all the rights to England games because not all of the public can watch the games if they own them. So this will not happen. Or it will but with repercussions.

(12-10-2009 07:19 )7 stars of the orient Wrote:  PPV has been in the pipeline for a long time. It's been coming for years, even if people such as yourself have only just realised it.

well as ppv on sky has been around for aslong as i have subscribed it is obviously not a new invention einstein. ppv is for 'events' like boxing or wrestling. it was not supposed to be used for games like england matches. that will be changed no doubt because of the ridiculous buy rate.

(13-10-2009 03:32 )mas0887 Wrote:  England PPV has not been in the pipeline, sure club games (well they have been, look at premplus), but it would cause a huge outrage if England matches were all PPV, the sort of shit where the PM would get involved to appear popular even though they never watch any footy (I am talking about any PM, future, past or present, you know it to be true). And public backlash would mean the games are never going to be PPV, Sky were banned from buying all the rights to England games because not all of the public can watch the games if they own them. So this will not happen. Or it will but with repercussions.

I'm afraid you haven't thought this out properly. Rights to away matches are the property of the home country and the FA or the PM cannot dictate who they are sold to, regardless of any public backlash. It follows that England PPV is on the way whether you like it or not and the only way it could be stopped is if the FA decided to buy all the rights to England away matches and then re-sell them to non-PPV broadcasters, even if it meant the FA making considerable losses. So far the FA have said that they aren't going to do this.

to be fair with premplus, u knew wot u were getting cos it was skysport's coverage. It was quality coverage with decent analysis, not 4m setanta's numpties.
Having said that, i heard, james richardson, who's 1 of the best football presenters in the country, felt conversations with sven was like pulling teeth! So 4.99 or 12, for that? not worth it. then again at that price for that game, not worth it under any circumstances.

But the main argument its an England game, not a club game. It shud b accessible to every1, personally i think it should be broadcasted on terrestrial tv as it is a national game. But FA r money grubbing whores, lookin to rip off those who watch the game instead of makin it accessible to every1 via terrestrial tv

Also in regards to the rights, the away games rights have to be bought by a broadcaster, and depending on who it is, it comes on their channel. In this case it was Setanta who ended up goin bust which why the rights were up 4 sale. The only reason this game was on PPV was because it was a "pointless" game which none of the broadcasters wanted to pay over the odds 4, but come the bidding rights for the next lot of away games, sky or espn will probably outbid that internet company because they'll want it more than they wanted this game, but we'l c wot the future holds

(13-10-2009 09:40 )654321 Wrote:  But the main argument its an England game, not a club game. It shud b accessible to every1, personally i think it should be broadcasted on terrestrial tv as it is a national game. But FA r money grubbing whores, lookin to rip off those who watch the game instead of makin it accessible to every1 via terrestrial tv

You're not paying attention are you? The money grubbing FA whores you talk about didn't make any money from the game. It was never their game to sell. Rights to away matches are the property of the home country, in this case Ukraine, and they sold the rights to the highest bidder - which is the only sensible decision they could have made.

(13-10-2009 09:49 )tony confederate Wrote:  You're not paying attention are you? The money grubbing FA whores you talk about didn't make any money from the game. It was never their game to sell. Rights to away matches are the property of the home country, in this case Ukraine, and they sold the rights to the highest bidder - which is the only sensible decision they could have made.

The FA didn't sell the rights to this game i know that! i'm talking bout the general sale of england games, it shud all be on terrestrial tv, when the FA sold international games to sky and setanta or espn. Friendly or not, all our games, especially the home games shud all be on terrestrial tv

(13-10-2009 10:02 )654321 Wrote:  i'm talking bout the general sale of england games, it shud all be on terrestrial tv, when the FA sold international games to sky and setanta or espn. Friendly or not, all our games, especially the home games shud all be on terrestrial tv

You've got a big problem there, because there's no guarantee that terrestrial broadcasters will be that keen on friendlies. Last time Setanta got rights to England friendlies because the terrestrial broadcasters just weren't that bothered about mere friendlies.

The games would not all be PPV, for the same reason that every football game on TV is not on Sky, there are laws not allowing the sale of one type of sports broadcast media to be monopolised by a single entertainment franchise. It is allowed in certain instances for sports that occur outside of this country (Wrestling and NFL for instance) but England games are not allowed to be completely owned through Sky via the law so why will they be allowed on PPV? Anybody that thinks they will be needs a head examination.