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BC
BcastCam
Whilst all the attention is on Amazon this week looks like Sky Sports have no live sport at all on Tuesday, though presumably they'll be something on Sky Sports Racing, which I don't think they have simulcast yet on Main Event.

Also Sky Sports Action seems to be pretty much a 24/7 promo channel for the Joshua Riaz fight from tomorrow. Anyone know what time that fight is scheduled for - with it being in Saudi Arabia I imagine it's more UK than US friendly.


Other than N Zealand v England cricket, NFL, WWE... (and Racing, as you said)

Ruiz fight programming starts at 5pm on the 7th.
HA
harshy Founding member
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.
JO
Jon
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.

So you’re solution is to “too may sports channels” is more sports channels? And to take that to it’s logical conclusion we’d have sports channels for most competitions so therefore even money needed for subscriptions. Doesn’t make a lot of sense really.
Charlesy and itvblocks gave kudos
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.


And there was I thinking TV channels cover football matches out of the goodness of their heart...
RO
rob Founding member
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.


And there was I thinking TV channels cover football matches out of the goodness of their heart...


Are you telling me they don't??!! Laughing Laughing
UK
UKnews
Jon posted:
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.

So you’re solution is to “too may sports channels” is more sports channels? And to take that to it’s logical conclusion we’d have sports channels for most competitions so therefore even money needed for subscriptions. Doesn’t make a lot of sense really.

Exactly. Unless all you want to watch is - for example - Premier League football and only Premier League football, then a stand alone subscription service won’t save you any money. If they lost all the rights, the existing rights holders wouldn’t reduce their prices enough to cover the subscription cost of such a service - they could end up selling it as an add on.

Since 2001 you’ve needed two subscriptions to watch all the Premier League games broadcast in the UK. As the number of games shown live has grown - from 60 per season before 2001, to over 200 now - it was inevitable the Premier League would want to have at least two rights holders to keep prices up. They’d likely have done so even if they hadn’t - in effect - been forced to.

I get the frustration that a third subscription is now needed to see all the Premier League games shown live in the UK, but it could be a lot worse. If you haven’t had Amazon Prime before you can get their games as part of a free trial. If you have, then you can pay £5.99 for a months subscription. If you’ve already got Prime then it’s not costing you anything extra, it’s available across multiple platforms, so why complain?

If anything it’s now easier to pick and chose which subscriptions you have. Each of the broadcasters now have some sort of contract free option* where you can take a channel for a month (or less). Some do mean you’ve got to have a certain service with certain providers, but if that content is that important to you then you make that choice. Alternatively you wrangle deals each time your contracts are up and switch providers if needed.

(*BT Sport the most tricky here, but on EE it can be added on a month by month basis, with or without the option to cast it to a TV.)
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Ne1L C
Sounds like Viasat Sport
DV
DVB Cornwall
More on AZPV PL from The Evening Standard via ....





EDIT ...

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Last edited by DVB Cornwall on 3 December 2019 5:22pm - 2 times in total
HA
harshy Founding member
Jon posted:
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.

So you’re solution is to “too may sports channels” is more sports channels? And to take that to it’s logical conclusion we’d have sports channels for most competitions so therefore even money needed for subscriptions. Doesn’t make a lot of sense really.

No I just want to see PLTV with Matchday Live, Fanzone and all it’s great coverage from IMG Sports Media!
HA
harshy Founding member
Jon posted:
Too many sports channel in the UK all wanting money it’s a joke, just give us PLTV and it’s shows that’s it for Premier League.

So you’re solution is to “too may sports channels” is more sports channels? And to take that to it’s logical conclusion we’d have sports channels for most competitions so therefore even money needed for subscriptions. Doesn’t make a lot of sense really.

Exactly. Unless all you want to watch is - for example - Premier League football and only Premier League football, then a stand alone subscription service won’t save you any money. If they lost all the rights, the existing rights holders wouldn’t reduce their prices enough to cover the subscription cost of such a service - they could end up selling it as an add on.

Since 2001 you’ve needed two subscriptions to watch all the Premier League games broadcast in the UK. As the number of games shown live has grown - from 60 per season before 2001, to over 200 now - it was inevitable the Premier League would want to have at least two rights holders to keep prices up. They’d likely have done so even if they hadn’t - in effect - been forced to.

I get the frustration that a third subscription is now needed to see all the Premier League games shown live in the UK, but it could be a lot worse. If you haven’t had Amazon Prime before you can get their games as part of a free trial. If you have, then you can pay £5.99 for a months subscription. If you’ve already got Prime then it’s not costing you anything extra, it’s available across multiple platforms, so why complain?

If anything it’s now easier to pick and chose which subscriptions you have. Each of the broadcasters now have some sort of contract free option* where you can take a channel for a month (or less). Some do mean you’ve got to have a certain service with certain providers, but if that content is that important to you then you make that choice. Alternatively you wrangle deals each time your contracts are up and switch providers if needed.

(*BT Sport the most tricky here, but on EE it can be added on a month by month basis, with or without the option to cast it to a TV.)

Yeah but you will be there sat in a control room getting all the games in 4K UHD HDR HLG whilst the end user is paying to see stutter vision at 1080p25
DO
dosxuk
Is there even enough 4K UHD HDR HLG trucks in the UK to produce every match in that format?

Does anyone know who's got the facilities contact for Amazon? Presumably it's the same trucks and crews as do it week in week out?
GE
thegeek Founding member

Yeah but you will be there sat in a control room getting all the games in 4K UHD HDR HLG whilst the end user is paying to see stutter vision at 1080p25

Only one game per night is being produced in UHD.

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