Isn't the current Football League show an indie production, so it's very likely C5 are simply buying the same programme as the BBC show when the rights change?
It's an indie production commissioned by the BBC, using BBC talent. Channel 5 would have to produce their own programme, or commission an independent company to produce on for them.
Interesting to see the Sky share price suffer on this news this morning. This weighing more than a quadruple play BT. An invigorated Viacom owned Channel 5 clearly being seen as a threat to their operations.
What with Channel 5's SD picture being awful, trying to watch the highlights and spot the ball itself will bring an extra level of interactivity to the programme.
I can't see a Football League highlights show at 9pm on a Saturday on Channel 5 doing particularly well.
Seems like an off decision, especially if Channel 5 were only offering marginally more money than the BBC.
Yeah, it gets over 750k as it is at midnight, how much more is it expected to get? The problem is that you may get a better timeslot but there's no support for it in the schedule and involves people having to seek it out. These days it benefits from being after Match of the Day, which can promote it, but the Football League also benefits from the goals being on Football Focus and the BBC website. In many ways the highlights show itself is less important than the promotion it can get on other programmes.
It's like when the Conference was on Premier Sports. Yeah, it got live games and top billing on that channel, but it was playing to existing fans and nobody else. A feature on Football Focus probably does more for a lower league club.
I can't see a Football League highlights show at 9pm on a Saturday on Channel 5 doing particularly well.
Seems like an off decision, especially if Channel 5 were only offering marginally more money than the BBC.
Yeah, it gets over 750k as it is at midnight, how much more is it expected to get? The problem is that you may get a better timeslot but there's no support for it in the schedule and involves people having to seek it out. These days it benefits from being after Match of the Day, which can promote it, but the Football League also benefits from the goals being on Football Focus and the BBC website. In many ways the highlights show itself is less important than the promotion it can get on other programmes.
It's like when the Conference was on Premier Sports. Yeah, it got live games and top billing on that channel, but it was playing to existing fans and nobody else. A feature on Football Focus probably does more for a lower league club.
It's disappointing as well from a regional TV perspective given that BBC (and ITV back in the day) produced additional regional programmes. It's a product that works well regionally. C5 don't have that capability.
I can't see a Football League highlights show at 9pm on a Saturday on Channel 5 doing particularly well.
Seems like an off decision, especially if Channel 5 were only offering marginally more money than the BBC.
Surely 9pm on C5 will do as well as midnight on the BBC. I suspect they'll probably repeat it around midnight themselves to try and get the most out of it too.
An interesting move from C5 though and I don't think it's something anybody other than Manish Bhasin will be losing sleep over at the BBC - if they're trimming the sports budget losing the rights to a highlights show that goes out after midnight is a sensible place to start.
I'd be surprised if a 9pm start time is a starter. I suspect there'll be something tied in to protect Sky's interests in not having competition until after the 8pm longform highlight SNF-Game of the Day FAPL match completes.