The Sport Thread

That would be a horrific proposition for the sports fan. As much as we complain about the fragmention of rights between Sky, BT, Premier Sport, eir Sport etc, having to pay per sport or even per sporting event would break the camels back. Football is probably the big example as it has multiple governing bodies and leagues/competitions even within a single country - imagine as a football fan having to pay separately for the PL, EFL, EFL Cup, FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League etc. It may kill a lot of smaller or niche events if things go that way. I don’t think it will though. Sports bodies do not want the hassle of having to organise the broadcast of their own events and it will always be more profitable to sell the rights to a third party.

As for the golf, I’m not sure what’s happened in countries where Golf TV has already launched as an OTT service - I think it has yet to enter the markets where golf has a significant viewership. I think the golf audience isn’t ready for OTT only and some sort of coverage on Eurosport may be required. It’ll be interesting to see what’s contemplated.

The fact linear sport TV channels are the "only " live linear channels you watch is why they are far from dead yet.

Did they actually call it BSkyB? Because it's not called British Sky Broadcasting any more, it's Sky UK now.

They shouted out to “Setanta Sports in Ireland” a few weeks back before one of the Tri-Nations games too! (It may not have been altogether inaccurate, as I think one of the still-existing branches of Setanta may hold rights in parts of Asia or Eastern Europe).

What about a Eurosport 3, or could it be that Discovery, owning Quest, it could be put on there, thus giving it FTA exposure.

So that Argentina v England World Cup match has been put on iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08zspyj/1986-fifa-world-cup-argentina-v-england-quarterfinal

For pres fans, seems to be a clean feed version (match isn't, but surrounding presentation was - it's now been Reithed), so you can see the somewhat crude circled highlighting of the handball while the non existing credits roll.

Yes they called it BSkyB that's why I mentioned them giving a shoutout to viewers in the UK catching the game on BSkyB. *rolling eyes emoji*

At the moment, I pay £25 a month for NowTV Sky Sports package, £89 a year for Premier, and get BT through my Virgin Media XL package. For that outlay I get a ton of content I *don't* want such as cricket, golf, foreign football etc. If I could pay £25 for "all the football", "all the rugby", "all the F1" and "all the darts" I'd be happy.

For reasons I have never quite been able to ascertain, the BSkyB has managed to stick around in NZ when (and this is rare) Sky UK is referred to. It's not as though a lot of programming comes via Sky UK this way other than the odd cricket/rugby/league fixture.

Isn't Sky in New Zealand a completely different entity to BSkyB anyway?

Yes. No connection nowadays, other than a shared name.

One of those horrible days in the office for the international media and Sky Sports at the Bahrain Grand Prix with Romain Grosjean crashing into the barriers in the early minutes of the race, with the car splitting in two and the cockpit end bursting into flames. Luckily Grosjean emerged walking out some seconds later, the direction and editing must have been working at a frantic pace during the crash and ensuing minutes. Well played to the Formula 1 safety and medical teams. The reporting thereof on Social Media and Sky Sports being exemplary since the incident.