I am well aware that TV rights feed millions and millions in to the league but am I wrong in thinking that most, if not all, of that revenue stream go the clubs whose game are televised. I have watched several FA Cup games here in the Canaries on ITV and have to go to the local bar to watch Premiership games which appear to me to be shown primarily, at least here, on Arabic channels. Do teams like us even get a morsel of the huge meals being fed to the top clubs or is it more a case of the rich get richer etc etc and we are left to hang out to dry? It appears to me that the BBC have little if any coverage and I ask why some TV network would not want to sign a deal to cover lower leagues exclusively, and in particular the Championship, to provide more desperately needed funding for the somewhat cash strapped teams that make up the rest of the Football League. Perhaps I'm totally off base with this thread but living in Canada does not afford me the opportunity to stay on top of some of the factors in football that have changed so drastically since I left the UK in 1975, so I have to base my opinions on what I think I see rather than what I know for fact. Any thoughts?
As I see it all clubs get a share of the general pot handed to the league they are in. Let's keep it simply 23 million to broadcasting rights for the Championship. 1 million each Then I think coud be wrong they get a little bit more if they are the live team on tv that week. Say 100k per game shown. But you will also get marketing rights like a company knows your on TV whack an advertising board opposite the camera's Could be wrong but it's not something like that. Cardiff screen their home games live back to Malaysia where the cameras are filmed the opposite side to the Sky and BBC ones, they are pointing at Malaysian advertising. This is what I was told by a season ticket holder there. So their owners get's a revenue from this as well. Maybe we should do the same but just have Cider companies and Yeo Valley
Perhaps I can get a Canadian TV company to cover the games and get advertising for Molson Beer, Moosehead Beer and other products in the same vein. Actually come to think of it that would be a waste of time because I spend my winters in the Canary Islands - oops sorry all you people back ther in the cold. Come on City.
