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RE: Television Rights - wirralbus - 09/11/2013 13:13
BT Sport has announced an exclusive £897m three-year deal which will end two decades of live Champions League football on terrestrial TV.
The broadcaster has won the rights to show all 350 matches each season from 2015 after talks with European governing body Uefa.
A BT spokesman said it had "shaken up the UK TV market" and would make some games, including finals, free to air.
The news is a major blow to Sky and ITV, who currently share the rights.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 09/11/2013 20:23
Just staggered in from seeing lowly non-league Macclesfield Town wipe the floor with a Swindon Town side 55 places higher in the football pyramid 4 - 0 (and it really should have been six!) in the FA Cup.
Fantastic atmosphere, geat passing football and four top draw goals - if you don't believe me catch the highlights on ITV later tonight.
We are 38 in the bag for tomorrow's draw - live on ITV at about 4.15. Fingers crossed for another home tie.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 10/11/2013 16:54
Yees!
Home tie against Gillingham or Brackley (wherever that is!)
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - mbonwick - 10/11/2013 16:56
Brackley is between Oxford and Northampton.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - wirralbus - 10/11/2013 17:21
(10/11/2013 16:54)DVL418 Wrote: Yees!
Home tie against Gillingham or Brackley (wherever that is!)
Some of those ties against teams that you do not know much about can be the hardest ones. Those are the teams that have nothing to lose at all and the FA Cup is just extra income for them.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 10/11/2013 19:48
(10/11/2013 16:56)mbonwick Wrote: Brackley is between Oxford and Northampton.
Cheers.
RE: Television Rights - DVL418 - 11/11/2013 20:41
(09/11/2013 13:13)wirralbus Wrote: BT Sport has announced an exclusive £897m three-year deal which will end two decades of live Champions League football on terrestrial TV.
The broadcaster has won the rights to show all 350 matches each season from 2015 after talks with European governing body Uefa.
A BT spokesman said it had "shaken up the UK TV market" and would make some games, including finals, free to air.
The news is a major blow to Sky and ITV, who currently share the rights.
The live Champions League matches shown by ITV has had a major impact on the gates of lower league clubs that have to play on the same evenings over recent years. Now most/all games will be on a paid basis it may help attendances for clubs in Leagues one and two and the Conference pyramid.
RE: Television Rights - CX06 EBK - 11/11/2013 21:38
Clearly not 'proper' football fans if they decide to stay in to watch the big teams instead of their own teams.
RE: Television Rights - DVL418 - 11/11/2013 22:32
(11/11/2013 21:38)CX06 EBK Wrote: Clearly not 'proper' football fans if they decide to stay in to watch the big teams instead of their own teams.
Any extra few hundred on home gates for midweek games can be the difference between survival and administration though for smaller clubs, so it all helps
Anyway, iF you rely on the tabloids for your football news there are no clubs outside the premiership to watch anymore.
RE: Television Rights - wirralbus - 15/11/2013 11:27
I do wonder whether when the rights for EPL football come up again in the next round that Sky will have a tougher time against BT than they had this time .
For BT it is ensuring that they have enough sport that people want to watch , maybe need to start looking at Cricket rights when they become available .