nellyonthewing
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Here in the USA all the big Premier matches are on Cable TV for free. Meanwhile Sky continue to rip us off.
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Premier league to sell matches on Netflix style service
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Mad Eyed Screamer
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For free?Here in the USA all the big Premier matches are on Cable TV for free. Meanwhile Sky continue to rip us off.
You mean 3 games on a Saturday and 2 on a Sunday are on paid for cable station and the rest are via a paid for streaming "Gold Package"?
nellyonthewing
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My cable is included in my HOA. NBC Channel 26 or some of the Spanish channels have loads of EPLFor free?
You mean 3 games on a Saturday and 2 on a Sunday are on paid for cable station and the rest are via a paid for streaming "Gold Package"?
The Premier League has barely scratched the surface in realising it's full monetary value overseas, certainly compared to the American sports. The league has hardly developed any of its own media properties for worldwide audiences in order to sell its own content. There is so much untapped potential all around the world to get people to pay just to watch the Prem, instead of being faced with having to purchase it through another media platform or rely on dodgy streams.
Once it finally catches up it'll comfortably surpass the NFL in terms of revenue IMO.
Once it finally catches up it'll comfortably surpass the NFL in terms of revenue IMO.
The Premier League has barely scratched the surface in realising it's full monetary value overseas, certainly compared to the American sports. The league has hardly developed any of its own media properties for worldwide audiences in order to sell its own content. There is so much untapped potential all around the world to get people to pay just to watch the Prem, instead of being faced with having to purchase it through another media platform or rely on dodgy streams.
Once it finally catches up it'll comfortably surpass the NFL in terms of revenue IMO.
good point.
this idea is years late really. The Premier league will do crazy numbers with such a service.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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This has got absolutely no chance of coming to fruition in this country, so stop getting your hopes up! Sky and BT provide over half the revenues for the PL and if you think that is stopping any time soon, you are all very much mistaken. This is about growing the African and Asian markets, not about giving UK fans a cheaper deal. The only way that happens is if revenue becomes less important to the clubs and the only way that happens is when footballers stop being paid absolutely obscene amounts of cash. It's not Sky or BT ripping us off but the blokes we go to watch and, until that changes, nothing will change, domestically at least.
Anthony Martial £13M a year, Rashford £12M, Silva, Sterling, Gundogan, Milner, Kante, Henderson, Kepe, Aubamayang, Vardy, Van Dyke, Lacazette, Mkhitaryan, Son are all over £8M, Kane is over £10M, Ozil £14M, Pogba £15M with KDB pulling in £16M a year, same as Sanchez. The average pay for a 'squad member' is now over £61,000 per week and many of those are bang average players.
If you divided all those salaries by 10 and, taking a bit of license, everything else could be divided by the same amount. That would put season tickets at £75 and TV subscription to all football channels, £6 a month. More chance of platting fog, I am afraid....
Anthony Martial £13M a year, Rashford £12M, Silva, Sterling, Gundogan, Milner, Kante, Henderson, Kepe, Aubamayang, Vardy, Van Dyke, Lacazette, Mkhitaryan, Son are all over £8M, Kane is over £10M, Ozil £14M, Pogba £15M with KDB pulling in £16M a year, same as Sanchez. The average pay for a 'squad member' is now over £61,000 per week and many of those are bang average players.
If you divided all those salaries by 10 and, taking a bit of license, everything else could be divided by the same amount. That would put season tickets at £75 and TV subscription to all football channels, £6 a month. More chance of platting fog, I am afraid....
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I wonder if the deal means clubs get a percentage cut depending on which match fans choose to watch.
Now which clubs in red would benefit from that the most...?
Now which clubs in red would benefit from that the most...?
Really? That many people go and see a game on a saturday at 3pm would fuck that off if there was games on tv?
Yeah, for ten years or so there will be a sharp decline but the next generation won’t have the appetite to go to live games, get involved with local clubs in a volunteering capacity or even play. The game below the Championship will cease to exist.
It’s easy to pay £8.99 for all the games on your fire stick rather than travel out in the cold to watch Rochdale v Shrewsbury, Ashton United v Colne or Prestwich Heys v Padiham.
That’s an overhyped myth imho, which I would like to see put to the test. And if it means some of the 92 had to go semi-pro, then so be it. It’s 2020, not 1920.
Not a myth. You put a superior product really cheap and accessible in people’s homes, they won’t get involved at any capacity the lower down you get.
You think people would go to the cinema if the new films that are released would be cheaper to view anytime on an app on the TV?
Your last sentence is so elitist and sad as well. There is more to football than the Premier League.
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Not a myth. You put a superior product really cheap and accessible in people’s homes, they won’t get involved at any capacity the lower down you get.
You think people would go to the cinema if the new films that are released would be cheaper to view anytime on an app on the TV?
Your last sentence is so elitist and sad as well. There is more to football than the Premier League.
In reverse order, the era when 92 professional clubs emerged was so different, the entertainment choices people had were so much more limited. And I fully agree there is so much more than the PL. I just don’t accept the model of 92 full time professional clubs needs to be maintained in perpetuity for its own sake. Those clubs and teams could still exist in a different amateur model.
I honestly don’t buy the film comparison either- there isn’t the same attachment to say, a particular film director (who doesn’t produce new product every fortnight anyway).
As an aside, you probably won’t agree with this either, but there’s an argument cinema has peaked as a 20th century phenomena and with the advent of streaming and box sets, the 2 hour film, at a cinema, experience is becoming less significant.