That assumption fails that 25,000 of our fans pay for Sky sports only for our games.
"Undersold" is an understatement.
They may be clowns and I Believe they are, however I refuse to believe they are stupid enough to get a ridiculously low price for our tv. Deal, I believe they will get around its true values. If we get £25 million a season someone competent may squeeze a bit more out of it but it’s not going to double or treble or anything like it.
I think the RRP for the SkyTV + Sky Sports package (no broadband) is £64. £92 if you want the package that includes BTSport via Sky.
I thought it's pretty pointless to pretend they're separate for the purposes of this debate.
In a nutshell the EPL is what people want and to get it they have to take the whole package including broadband, mainly due to how they structure packages. If SKy lost the EPL they would lose 75% of customers, that’s why it’s so valuable to them. That why they pay over the odds for it. Sadly the SPL doesn't offer sky the same, in short it generates relatively few new subscribers to sky mainly due to the fact that many Scottish sky subscribers already siubsribe to get english football. the price sky and others pay for Scottish football is based on what extra income it generates them
Others wont go to the effort if they dont believe they have the chance to win.
Tbh unless we start getting support from other clubs then nothing will be done , we will just be seen as big bad rangers causing trouble again just like the cinch deal , surely clubs like aberdeen , hearts , hibs have got to see how shit the tv deals are
That makes no sense at all, if someone is paying below the odds as you say SKY are, then a competior goes in and offers ten million above that and they will win. It’s that simple. The clue is no one else is offering more, there’s a reason for that.
They are tied into the Sky deal until 2025, they can't go to open market until closer to then. They need an overdraft extension to survive and Sky promising x amount is the only way the bank will extend this overdraft.
Can assure you if companies engage in exclusive negotiations then others wont get involved.
They are tied to Sky until 2025, there is nothing stopping the SPFL having open discussions or a tender with others unless the current shit deal gives Sky exclusive extension rights.
Surely there is some sort of contractual obligations stating when they are allowed to put the product up to tenure. It was a matter of months ago that they signed this deal with Sky.
There may be an exclusive negotiation option in the current shit deal.
Hearn stated at the time "if Doncaster worked for me and showed such poor return he would be out the door". Whilst I am no great fan of the Hearns by feck do we need someone like that to get us a rightful deal.
Sky will have an obligation in the contract preventing them from looking for new broadcasters until the final year, which is the normal practice. The desperation from that corrupt bastards is what's forcing a further shit deal for Scottish football.
I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss these days - Sky or BTSports. Cost, primarily, drove me away but, to be perfectly honest, the annual 'discussion' trying to get my discount became tiresome. Its a charade. They knew they would do a deal, I knew they would do a deal - just apply a 'loyalty' discount without the need for the phone call FFS.
The demand that provides revenue for sky is not viewing figures it’s packages sold. many viwers to the Scottish game have subscribed to sky sports for English content. Subscribers drive the value of the tv deal not viewers
Wasn’t aware that had returned so that’s a plus.
When most IPTV Yearly Subs are less than a months Sky sub it’s a no brainer especially in the current economic climate when families are struggling to feed their kids
The problem - and I'm partly guessing here - with an App that works on TVs is twofold. Firstly they all have hardware/software of different quality and ability. Secondly there are so many different operating systems - Apple, Android, Sony, Tizen, WebOS etc. - that I doubt coming up with an App that functions on each of them is straightforward. I've no doubt its 'doable' but at what cost? One that works on Fire TV Stick - even if it had to be sideloaded - would be a big step forward for many I think. You can sideload on the 4kMAX Fire TV Stick but not any of the others, so they are part way there. Aside from that, the App is crap anyways of course.
The only excuse for using IPTV for other things is if you are also paying for RTV for Rangers content, anything else is stealing from the club.
Spotify stopped us downloading music. Netflix reduced torrenting. If it's a fair price and good service people will pay it.
I always remember thinking the Spanish rights were actually surprisingly cheap given the interest in Barcelona and Real Madrid.
My question is why now? Are Amazon going to make a play in the football streaming? A bit more than now obviously. I think they have some CL games. Are sky securing it to block Amazon?
He made snooker and darts viable lucrative products for God's sake, he must be worth a try!
Sky aren’t covered by the licence fee, they are a private company. He said politicians should force sky to pay a hiher price. Scottish licence payers get more spent locally than licence payers in England. Fool anyone who pays the licence fee.
