Tv soccer rights for next Season

Not looking forward to going to matches on a Friday night. It's bad enough with Saturday lunchtimes or evenings or Sundays at whatever time Sky decides kick off will be, let alone Monday nights. Altering fixture lists to suit their schedules do no favours to those of us who enjoy actually going to a match.

Be interesting to see whether the huge sums will mean clubs lower ticket prices for supporters. I some how doubt it. It will just mean even bigger transfer payments, bigger salaries for players (even mediocre ones) and more payouts to agents.

At least Lord Sugar tweeted his feelings on the subject. Can it really be compared to Thatcher's privatisation? It's how the money is distributed lower down that is the worry for me.

It's going to get the point where they'll probably have to film crowds to fill empty stadiums!!

Liked the statistic that burnley is now more wealthy than Ajax

dont know why everyone is whinging about this its good news they are all uk registered business's guessing all pay there taxes and so do the players

why is everyone down on business's making money in this country whats the betting that Red ED will try a fucking windfall tax on the clubs if he gets into power


more money is promised for the Football league and grass roots football

(10-02-2015 19:13 )babelover48 Wrote:  It wouldn't surprise me if many stadiums will soon be half empty or empty because of inflated ticket prices (And I would be willing to bet that many fans will choose to sit at home and watch it on TV rather than got the stadium).

What are you talking about exactly?

Last season saw the highest attendances in top-division football in England for 64 years. The average number of tickets sold per game was 36,695 – the highest figure in the Premier League era and the biggest in England’s top division since 1949/50.

Last season also produced a record seat occupancy percentage of 95.9 according to official Premier League figures, beating the record set the season before of 95.3% of available seats sold.

Hannah's Pet says it's good news for business because of the tax - may well be but how are Sky and BT going to fund the massive amount they are paying for the various packages? They will want to recoup that money and one way will be to increase subscription rates for the sports channels or to introduce more pay per view matches. Viewers will lose out either way.

(11-02-2015 07:47 )HannahsPet Wrote:  whats the betting that Red ED will try a fucking windfall tax on the clubs if he gets into power

A windfall tax wouldn't produce much in the way of revenue. Nothing in fact, because football clubs tend to spend their income on getting the best players they possibly can and therefore don't end up making any profit. Last season the Premier League clubs lost about £300m between them.

(10-02-2015 19:13 )babelover48 Wrote:  I am Absolutely gobsmacked as to how much the new TV deals for next 3 seasons are costing how in god's name has that been allowed to spiral out of control?

Ask Sky and BT. They are the ones doing the bidding.

BT are actually not paying that much more than they were before, but Sky effectively doubled their offers.

(10-02-2015 20:52 )BaddaBing Wrote:  ...

TV's (especially Sky's) grip on sport in this country has pissed me off for a number of years now and I just can't see it changing for the better any time soon!

It pisses me off too. Sky and BT have sucked the sport out of the BBC. Football and MotoGP. Sky get The Open Golf Championship in 2017 and it's only a matter of time before they get the other half of F1 off the BBC too. Still, when it comes to programmes about buying and doing up houses, BBC will always be king.

(11-02-2015 14:39 )Starblade Wrote:  it's only a matter of time before they get the other half of F1 off the BBC too.

Sky already televise every race of the F1 calendar.

I wonder how much the BBC and Talksport pay to have the radio commentary rights, there's a bit more money to add to the pot.