I fancy watching the England national team playing football and if the BBC cannot run to that they should have at least the highlights on. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks like that either.
Selling off the Premier League started the decline for everything about football outside of that mega rich league. They have all the money and the FA get a few scraps, 3 million for winning the FA cup it's a joke. What it also means is that the FA have to sell the TV rights to the highest bidder which for many reasons is unlikely to be the BBC. ITV still have the rights to show Euro and world cup qualifiers.
I know away games have definitely been on Sky for a while. They were on Setanta Sports as well, which shows how long it has been going on for. Nice little excerpt from Wikipedia: All England matches are broadcast with full commentary on talkSPORT and BBC Radio 5 Live. From the 2008–09 season until the 2017–18 season, England's home and away qualifiers, and friendlies both home and away are broadcast live on ITV (often with the exception of STV, the ITV franchisee in central and northern Scotland). England's away qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup were shown on Setanta Sports until that company's collapse. As a result of Setanta Sports's demise, England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on 10 October 2009 was shown in the United Kingdom on a pay-per-view basis via the internet only. This one-off event was the first time an England game had been screened in such a way. The number of subscribers, paying between £4.99 and £11.99 each, was estimated at between 250,000 and 300,000 and the total number of viewers at around 500,000.[46] In 2018, Sky Sports broadcast the England Nations League and in-season friendlies, until 2021 and ITV broadcast the European Qualifiers for Euro-World Cups and pre-tournament friendlies (after the Nations League group matches end), until 2022.[47]
If you have a decent internet connection then any sports event being televised anywhere in the world can be viewed. My initial outlay two years ago was £40 and use apps (which are regularly updated) to view sport.
Premier League fans boycotting pay-per-view games have raised over £300,000 for charity - but the controversial TV scheme is set to continue at least until next month's international break. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54692739
Neville and Carragher attacked Project Bigger Picture and the PPV model last night on Monday Night Football. I imagine the Premier League will be fuming this morning that their broadcast partner’s main pundits did this but you’d struggle to find anybody that disagrees with what they said in either of these clips. There’s a PL meeting today and the PPV model is on the agenda.
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has called on the Premier League to slash the price of pay-per-view matches from £14.95 to just short of a fiver.
The PPV revenue from the first nine games has averaged £600k per game, with just under 40k paying to watch. Higher than I expected. Though three of the games were less than 10k.
To break this down a little further for Sky’s games: Newcastle Vs Man Utd - 40,000 viewers. Leicester Vs Sheff Utd - 20,000 Liverpool Vs Sheff Utd - 110,000 Arsenal Vs Leicester - 140,000 BTs numbers will probably be less than these considering they had the poorer games and the average being 40k. Edit - actually different papers disagree about this as one paper is saying no match had excess of 100k viewers but another gives those figures.
