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I'm not sure whats worse, Sky overspending or Eurosport trying to do all their motorsport on a budget of €5. At least Eurosport is free-ish.
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F1 and Moto GP is shown live on Antena3 in Spain They show all the races and practice as well as qualifying. They also show highlights later. You can get a live commentary in English off the internet if you can't speak the lingo !
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say what you want about Rupert Murdoch and the monster that is Sky/FOX,21 Century FOX/NewCorps but they do a pretty outstanding job covering international sport and making it available in my local TV market.
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They have just concluded a sealed bidding for a number of UK Premier League soccer matches, and have paid over a billion pounds for the contract - an increase, if I recall correctly, of something in the region of 77%. Their only competitor, British Telecom, got their bid accepted for about half the number of games but for a cost of less than a million pounds. Sky's unwarranted generosity will have to be paid for by somebody, and that will be their subscribers. Well, at least the gormless idiots that kick a lump of leather around a field for a few hours a week will be sure to benefit, and will probably see their 7 figure salaries uprated as befits people of their limited intelligence. |
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I suspect F1 fans will also make their contribution to the saleries of said gormless idiots.
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20 Feb 2015, 18:13 (Ref:3507128) | #656 | ||
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thats the question. i posted an article a couple of pages back about how the conglomerates are pushing up the price as they attempt to outbid each other for exclusive coverage rights for all the leagues....so what ever the cost is today, it will be higher in the future.
for me i watch sports to the exclusion of anything else on TV so my price of (Can$125/mos) is for me a great value. in the future i imagine myself buying more a la carte style and just picking up the channels i want instead of being forced into a bundle of channels. more than price point, paying for something i dont want for the privilege of getting what i do want is the greater problem....for now anyways. |
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If you think that is bad I was listening to the radio last night talking about Mayweather/Pacqiao?
The last big Mayweather fight was 75 bucks for the PPV. This one will be over 100 bucks for the package, that is for one fighta nd the rest of the card. Listen folks, there is only one way out of this pathetic situaiton and that is to eat your humble pie and not pay these morons? They only exiist if people make a stand and say no. If you continually roll over year on year, it will continue. You can get good deals with any of these poeple, but when it comes to one offs like this, you would have to be stark raaving made to pay it. I mean I would struggle to come up with 100 quid to be there in person, let alone allow the almighty God that is Fox or ESPN grace me with their presence in my own damned house! Whatever next I ask you |
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boxing is actually a good example of the n.american model because they place a media blackout on their events and only allow the result and still pictures to be disseminated by the press.
which means, since i am personally not interested in paying the fee to watch it live because i will get it for free the following week via my already purchased cable subscription and the results are easily avoidable. or if i was interested in seeing it sooner then that, downloading it for free via an illegal torrent or stream is an option. the pay wall is there for the live audience and those that place a priority on watching it live. if you dont want to pay or want to pay less then wait. point is that there is choice and lots of it including the choice to pay zero dollars. i actually cant imagine a system thats any more fair than that. |
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I wasnt really talking about fairness
I was talking about the preposterous amount of money it costs! |
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What happened to boxing to me is truly a shame for the common fan. I used to love watching the big fights on Saturday nights, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, etc. Now its solely shown in the realm of pay per view, which I refuse to do. In fact, there are so few fights even advertised now, I don't know if there are actually simply fewer fights, or if they are simply not shown on TV.
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ON the same show I was tlaking about, it was said that a few big world championship title fights involving Brits are being shown on terrestrial.
Could this be the first signs of a sport realising PPV does not work? As boxing really was one of the first to sell its soul decades ago. Yes the big fights like Mayweather will always be PPV as they will not fight for the purses normal telly can pay, hence the reason why this fight has taken years to come up. As for F1, while people are prepared to pay it will remain PPV, it just takes a landslide of people to walk away and it will come back |
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Just on the website. They've never had it on TV I believe.
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Sponsors are questioning Bernie's stratagy of pay to view TV with a view to the value of F1 to them with its declining viewerships.
No surprise there is so much vacant space on the cars bodywork. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns30194.html |
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The teams love the paytv deals as they get more money, so it's about time the sponsors themselves took action as viewers are down. Wonder how long until something happens and what form that takes?
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Looking at what's happened to IndyCar with pay to view and declining viewing figures, sponsors have gone elsewhere.
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However we also have sky and they show many games a week. I remember times when I got to see more games than my US friend in New York because of sky. Until there was satellite or cable we never would have got endurance racing on telly. There is very much a place for sky or pay TV. Take rugby, until sky (now BT Sport) came along there was no way I'd be able to watch a Premiership or European game a week, let alone several. Of course F1 isn't structured like that. Only on every fortnight, so the balance isn't right. It is also much more sponsorship driven. Not every sport has the same solution. Free telly isn't the savior for all and sky isn't pure evil. |
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Good news for those who can't afford/don't want to pay sky, Sky 1 will be showing the qualifying live.
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