BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB has revealed that competing broadcasters will be unable to screen live
English Premier League football matches...

Full story http://www.sateuropa.co.uk

"Sat Europa" wrote in message
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BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB has revealed that competing broadcasters will be unable to screen live
English Premier League football matches...

Full story http://www.sateuropa.co.uk

what a misleading representation.
You make it sound like it is BSB's fault the other broadcasters are "unable" to
screen these matches, whereas it was equally the other broadcasters decision not
to stump up the money.

Loz

The others cant afford it because we are all too stupid to pay excessive
prices to watch those things we used to get for nought
CSX

"loz" wrote in message
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"Sat Europa" wrote in message
. co.uk...
BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB has revealed that competing broadcasters will be unable to screen
live
English Premier League football matches...

Full story http://www.sateuropa.co.uk

what a misleading representation.
You make it sound like it is BSB's fault the other broadcasters are
"unable" to
screen these matches, whereas it was equally the other broadcasters
decision not
to stump up the money.

Loz

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:44:55 +0100, "Mike_C" wrote:

Funny I don't remember ITV or the BBC screening 60 odd games a
year from the top flight of English footy when they had no rivals for
the TV rights.

Football is not _that_ popular. If you only have one or two channels as the BBC
& ITV had a few years ago you couldn't expect them to fill all the airtime with
football. It's easy for BSkyb, they have loads of channels to spread the
programming over.



Football as a whole is not popular you are correct hence the collapse of
the Nationwide deal with OnDigital and the low figures that European games
generate when they don't include a UK team.
However the right matches can generate viewing figures that BBC1 and ITV1
would be delighted with and a couple of games a week on average is not going
to overload those channels.
The BBC after all have paid an awful lot of money for FA cup games and
England home games and ITV splashed the cash along with SKY for the
Champions League games.

I look at the last decade or so and see that the terrestrial channels have only
shown an interest in the sport due to the success SKY have had with their
commitment and presentation of our national game.
Pity the old guard of the BBC and ITV didn't have the same faith in the game
that the upstart BSKYB had in 1992 because if they had then it would have
been much harder for SKY to sell footy to us if we had already been seeing the
same number of games on free telly for many years before hand.



I think that the ECB may well regret going Sky only. If nobody except a Sky
subscriber can watch Test Matches or even highlights of them or the one-day
matches then interest in all forms of cricket will diminish & the numbers of
people either playing & watching will decline.




Is this a new contract? I see CH4 have a number of home test matches
this summer..
I lost all interest in test and one day cricket when I got SKY back in 1992
having realised I only watched it because that was all the sport the TV showed
at the time, same goes for snooker and tennis. I was like an addict taking only
what the BBC and ITV fed me
I do like the 20/20 game though, great television and a good radio sport.

Mike C

On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:49:25 +0100, "Mike_C" wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
I think that the ECB may well regret going Sky only. If nobody except a Sky
subscriber can watch Test Matches or even highlights of them or the one-day
matches then interest in all forms of cricket will diminish & the numbers of
people either playing & watching will decline.

Is this a new contract? I see CH4 have a number of home test matches
this summer..

There was zero coverage on terrestrial TV of the recent West Indies tour.
England even won the series! It could have generated a lot of interest with
people who like you had lost interest in cricket. As it is the only people who
got to watch it are those who pay vast sums for Sky Sports & even then get
mostly blanket football coverage.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

When were you last able to watch live UK Premiership soccer matches for
nought?

Stan

In article , CSX
wrote:

The others cant afford it because we are all too stupid to pay excessive
prices to watch those things we used to get for nought
CSX

"loz" wrote in message
...
"Sat Europa" wrote in message
. co.uk...
BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB has revealed that competing broadcasters will be unable to screen
live
English Premier League football matches...

Full story http://www.sateuropa.co.uk

what a misleading representation.
You make it sound like it is BSB's fault the other broadcasters are
"unable" to
screen these matches, whereas it was equally the other broadcasters
decision not
to stump up the money.

Loz

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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As it is the only people who
got to watch it are those who pay vast sums for Sky Sports & even then get
mostly blanket football coverage.
Sky Sports does not have blanket football coverage. Far from it.

Loz

"Stan The Man" wrote in message
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The others cant afford it because we are all too stupid to pay excessive
prices to watch those things we used to get for nought
CSX
When were you last able to watch live UK Premiership soccer matches for
nought?

Stan

In article , CSX
wrote:



"loz" wrote in message
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"Sat Europa" wrote in message
. co.uk...
BSkyB claims exclusive Premiership rights

BSkyB has revealed that competing broadcasters will be unable to screen
live
English Premier League football matches...

Full story http://www.sateuropa.co.uk

what a misleading representation.
You make it sound like it is BSB's fault the other broadcasters are
"unable" to
screen these matches, whereas it was equally the other broadcasters
decision not
to stump up the money.

Loz

"Stan The Man" wrote in message
...
The others cant afford it because we are all too stupid to pay excessive
prices to watch those things we used to get for nought
When were you last able to watch live UK Premiership soccer matches for
nought?

Exactly.
But don't let that get in the way of people blaming Sky for everything...

Loz

"loz" wrote in message
...

"Stan The Man" wrote in message
...
The others cant afford it because we are all too stupid to pay
excessive
prices to watch those things we used to get for nought
When were you last able to watch live UK Premiership soccer matches for
nought?

Exactly.
But don't let that get in the way of people blaming Sky for everything...

Loz

Absolutely. Sky have revolutionised viewing in this country. Cast your mind
back 15 years when we had Match Of The Day and Rugby Special on a weekend
and that was it!