FrankDrebin
Well-Known Member
That's some amount of money, sky package when football does restart id going to be about £200 a month lol
They created the EPL, Boxing and F1 monsters.
Their customers have been overpaying for years and they have reaped the profits.
Those monsters still need fed,
You reap what you sow.
I can't remember exactly but I think any price increases you are allowed to cancel your contractI recently agreed an 18 month deal with Sky. Agent told me the price could be increased in April 2021 but was only a set percentage it could be increased by
I tried ringing early last week but I couldn’t get through. “They has stopped taken calls” so I cancel my 2 direct debits. I had contract till end of May.Cancel them both
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to renegotiate contracts going forward but I don't understand how they can claw money back for a product they have already received excluding the last few games. This season is over and it is just a big red herring being put out to set an agenda.Sadly thsts not how business works. If you are facing a huge loss you do everything to minimise that loss.
They have contracts already in place for years to come.
Jeftracey
Do you honestly think that there will not be renegotiating of contracts of all forms after we come out of this, and this will include contracts out in the real world? This crisis will be a game changer. Economies will be flattened, businesses struggling to stay afloat, people losing jobs, all this will feed into the mix. TV companies will have have to cut their cloth too just like the clubs and normal businesses in general.Why would they be renegotiated?
They are signed and sealed.
Globally I would say only Manchester United and Liverpool are bigger than us and them in EPL. Then Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs and Everton. Remainder are really only big local clubs generally with local following. TV money accounts for less than 10% of income at Liverpool and gate money about 3%. This may change the attitude of Sky and BT for a while as I think any other approach would see a massive drop in subscribers.Theres maybe about 5 teams that are the size of us and with the same money who knows what would happen.
I was going to argue with you but I feel too sorry for you, unfortunate name to have for a Rangers fan there Timmy.You're talking nonsense, and that is not a guess.
Good %^*& them. Stop paying obscene amounts to clubs that in turn pay obscene amounts to players. The world is gonnae be a different place and people will care less for players and celebs getting stupid moneySky and BT will lose almost £1bn in revenue if top-flight sport remains shut down until August, according to a report that recommends players take a pay cut to support their clubs.
In England, the Premier League has postponed matches until at least 30 April, and it appears increasingly unlikely that the league will resume then as the government’s nationwide lockdown is expected to continue for months.
The hypothesis informing governments assumes an initial three-month long lockdown,” said Enders Analysis, which published the report. “Group activities of 25 people involving close physical contact without protection will not plausibly be the first to be allowed when when some social life resumes.”
Sky has stopped charging commercial clients such as pubs that carry Sky Sports, and pay-TV subscribers can “pause” their payments. BT has told customers to call to “discuss their contract or other options”, while some customers on its flexible pay-TV package can elect to drop sport.
“Assuming a worst-case scenario of a four-month suspension of all sports coverage (British and foreign), with all sports subscribers pausing their contract and wholesale clients being allowed to follow suit, Sky would lose £700m and BT £228m in revenues,” Enders said.
The report says that beyond July Sky and BT will start saving money if sport remains off screens as upcoming rights payments would be postponed or cancelled.
Sky and BT are due to pay the Premier League the six-month licence fee for the first half of the 2020-21 season, which amounts to about £530m in total, in July. BT’s annual bill to Uefa for the Champions League rights is £394m.
The report suggests players need to play their part as clubs struggle economically, with wages accounting for 59% of revenues across the Premier League.
Football’s cost structure is pretty simple: most of the receipts flow into players’ pockets,” the report says. “The best solution is collectively negotiated pay cuts, but negotiating pay cuts with players is as difficult as herding cats.”
One top-flight German club has reached a deal with players and another is in talks. In France, Lyon has put players on the public “temporary” unemployment scheme, which should cut pay bills by half.
“To limit disruption, pain will have to be shared across the supply chain with players’ pay first in line,” the Enders report says.
I've no time for BT and less for Murdoch's mob. I'd like to see Murdoch especially go bust.
I think Murdoch sold out his share in Sky last year.
I dont think the recent SKY deal with Scottish football will be renegotiated. . . No.Do you honestly think that there will not be renegotiating of contracts of all forms after we come out of this, and this will include contracts out in the real world? This crisis will be a game changer. Economies will be flattened, businesses struggling to stay afloat, people losing jobs, all this will feed into the mix. TV companies will have have to cut their cloth too just like the clubs and normal businesses in general.
Murdoch and the sun losing money as well.
Approx 2 mill iircOh no, we're going to lose so much of the cash they've so generously put into Scottish football over the years....
TV only 10% -don’t think so!Globally I would say only Manchester United and Liverpool are bigger than us and them in EPL. Then Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs and Everton. Remainder are really only big local clubs generally with local following. TV money accounts for less than 10% of income at Liverpool and gate money about 3%. This may change the attitude of Sky and BT for a while as I think any other approach would see a massive drop in subscribers.
I stopped watching years ago.The last great thing to happen was Leicester winning the EPL.Granted Liverpool deserve it this season but I digress.The amount of money thrown at English and Champions League teams has made the end product boring and bland.I'm just not interested in paying for or watching the same teams year after year.I'm guessing all the folk that always take pride in these stories about the EPL and Sky's demise are the kind who watch football on a grainy screen that buffers repeatedly and see a goal five minutes after its mentioned on a match thread?
With all due respect the Scottish TV contracts are just the crumbs from the big boys' table so you may well be correct but the serious money is down south and abroad. People and businesses the world over are going to be scarred by this for a long time that it wouldn't take much for society to turn on the relatively small number of people and businesses who receive ridiculous sums of money. A perfect time to renegotiate and bring some sense of normality back.I dont think the recent SKY deal with Scottish football will be renegotiated. . . No.
He will have somewhere along the line of private equity companies it's interesting the Chinese some Shanghai company own a large stake now. I still class them as anti British along with news international and not to be paranoid that newsquest mob that supports the nationalists.Rupert Murdoch no longer has any shareholding in Sky.
Trying to get through to BT again this morning.
Last chance for them or im just cancelling the DD online.
Expect your bill to increase to cover costs.
You have no idea the damage that will add to the economy and to people all over Britain mateSky and BT losing a load of money?
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Maybe this will return football to a more nornal and perhaps level footing.
%^*& celtic,I would only want us to join and us alone.excellent news
Anything that makes the EPL come crawling here to ask us and the paedos to join
You are not alone. Might want to read this though, particularly the bit I coped and pasted:
BT Sport customers furious as they won’t be able to pause subscriptions like Sky Sports is doing
BT Sport customers are furious they still have to pay for subscriptions, while Sky Sports customers are able to pause packages. The telecoms company has come under fire for refusing to allow custom…www.thesun.co.uk
If you cancel your subscription before it's due to expire it's likely you'll be stung with early exit fees.
Its likely, therefore, that you will be leaving with a debt on your record which could affect your credit rating.
Don’t mean to be pedantic op, honest.Sky and BT will lose almost £1bn in revenue if top-flight sport remains shut down until August, according to a report that recommends players take a pay cut to support their clubs.
In England, the Premier League has postponed matches until at least 30 April, and it appears increasingly unlikely that the league will resume then as the government’s nationwide lockdown is expected to continue for months.
The hypothesis informing governments assumes an initial three-month long lockdown,” said Enders Analysis, which published the report. “Group activities of 25 people involving close physical contact without protection will not plausibly be the first to be allowed when when some social life resumes.”
Sky has stopped charging commercial clients such as pubs that carry Sky Sports, and pay-TV subscribers can “pause” their payments. BT has told customers to call to “discuss their contract or other options”, while some customers on its flexible pay-TV package can elect to drop sport.
“Assuming a worst-case scenario of a four-month suspension of all sports coverage (British and foreign), with all sports subscribers pausing their contract and wholesale clients being allowed to follow suit, Sky would lose £700m and BT £228m in revenues,” Enders said.
The report says that beyond July Sky and BT will start saving money if sport remains off screens as upcoming rights payments would be postponed or cancelled.
Sky and BT are due to pay the Premier League the six-month licence fee for the first half of the 2020-21 season, which amounts to about £530m in total, in July. BT’s annual bill to Uefa for the Champions League rights is £394m.
The report suggests players need to play their part as clubs struggle economically, with wages accounting for 59% of revenues across the Premier League.
Football’s cost structure is pretty simple: most of the receipts flow into players’ pockets,” the report says. “The best solution is collectively negotiated pay cuts, but negotiating pay cuts with players is as difficult as herding cats.”
One top-flight German club has reached a deal with players and another is in talks. In France, Lyon has put players on the public “temporary” unemployment scheme, which should cut pay bills by half.
“To limit disruption, pain will have to be shared across the supply chain with players’ pay first in line,” the Enders report says.