BT’s exclusive Euro deal seen as a ‘mistake’ by UEFA as Champions League suffers from losing big viewing figures. Champions League TV rights could be brought back to terrestrial channels BT Sport has an exclusive three-year deal, with UEFA, worth £897m European ruling body believe lack of free-to-air television is damaging Manchester City's first leg quarter-final draw with PSG drew 1.1m viewershttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...eague-suffers-losing-big-viewing-figures.html
Not a surprise really. They had a sweet deal with Sky and ITV, everybody gets included that way, The people willing to pay subscription (and the big money that comes with that) and the general populace who don't want to pay. Giving it all to one 'Pay' channel means you're only going to get the minority who are willing to pay to watch. It was pure greed to give it all to the highest bidder who were unwilling to share, they should have kept a share deal to allow a terrestrial channel to show some of the games (if not half), if they wanted viewers. Lets also not forget BT are new to this and have less subscribers.
I totally agree. If you pay subscription you should be paying for all matches live you want to see on red button and all the good stuff If you rock up free you see the ads and one game as picked by popularity. When there no free to Air there's en masse move to streaming And that is hard to reverse.
They liked the money though..... so ... Basically it'll be too late by time it's contract over. I've not got bt sports sob make of that what you will.
They'll lose money overall by the next contract being massively less. Free to air can basically say "give us a free game if you want us to rescue your viewership" The CL sponsors are getting less views and will be fuming
If you have BT as your internet provider you get BT sport for £5 a month to your computer, plug the laptop into the tv and away you go
Or give them your sky viewing card number, or your freeview signal and just watch it through normal tv on bt
Football should be either all on 1 pay channel, or split between 1 pay channel and 1 freebie. Splitting it between Sky & BT hasn't helped fans watch the games on tv... it was suggested to give fans more choice but it doesn't, just means we have to pay extra to watch.
Maybe the idea is to start charging so much to watch it on TV, that it becomes cheaper to go to grounds and watch it live.
Look when milk in usa. No offense. Can see every game live and choose what he sees when we can't something is hugely wrong. We are getting raped anally on fees here. I'd pay lfc for lfc games but I do not think either sky or bt offer anything like value to us. The very minimum I expect would very every game at 3pm being live on BT on Saturday as a choice and on a Sunday every game live as my choice too. Football first is frankly an archaic nonsense. It's OK I suppose for a repeat for people out and **** but he should have real choice to view all games not this 90s big game super Sunday pundit full court press when honestly... I was never going to watch spurs v Utd. I'd at best stick it in top corner to keep eye on on a split screen.
What these TV companies don't seem to realise (or care about, perhaps) is that true supporters want to watch their own team, no matter who they're playing. The "big match" is for the dilettante, prawn sandwich brigade who've been dragged into it by its gentrification over the last couple of decades. They'd get more money if they offered packages individually tailored to the needs of particular clubs' supporters. I know that there is an objection to this, from the football authorities, based on the belief that it will stop supporters actually going to the matches - but I can't see that that argument has any validity with the easy availability of foreign streams these days. Anyone with a computer and a very basic understanding of the internet can find any major game that they want online, yet I don't see this significantly affecting attendances.
Especially for prem Clubs that will nearly always sell 90% of their tickets. Question would be who gets the money? Would LFC want a % of the amount of packages the LFC package sells, or would it all go into one pot and be distributed evenly? I do enjoy watching the other games, especially on a lazy Sunday afternoon, quite nice to have a couple of other games to watch so buying an LFC package you'd miss that as would only get 1 game a week.. The big games draw the big audiences though and sky can make a killing off the adverts.
BT are expensive with a terrible record for customer service, add that to the terrible commentary and dodgy internet service and yes the figures will be bad. I have the service online for free using a family members log in but I don't bother because even though I have fibre and have a great connection with everything...except BT Sport so I don't use it even though it's free.
BT Showcase is free on Freeview. Watched the Madrid game on that. (Usually get unpopular games on there) Looks like they spent all their money getting Champions League football and didn't leave any for decent pundits.
I don't understand why they think they need so many. I've watched games that have the commentator, Michael Owen and Glen Hoddle, and Howard Webb on hand to explain all the decisions that he'd have got wrong as well when he was a ref. How much are they paying for this "expertise" that few fans need or want? Also, the commentator spends too much time advertising and talking up forthcoming programmes - again something we don't need, we all know the games of interest to us.
