PPV Brighton Poll - Did you pay £15

[spursfan77]

PL are meeting this week to decide to end the PPV.

 

[Actionman80]

All I got was a bunch of lag on Peacock. Cancelled my trial mid-match.

Didnt have one issue, used a smart DNS rather than VPN and it was flawless, only issue which i didnt know at the time is you cant airplay so next time i will load the app directly onto a firestick

 

[Ionman34]

Why should it be free to air

Because they’re free to air for every other country in the World bar ours?

 

[Serpico]

No never. All games should free to the clubs supporters and the away team. advertising would take care of the finances.

Does anyone know how many people would have paid for our game.Would ITV or C4 cover that cost-I bet they would and show it live on one of their silly channels.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Because they’re free to air for every other country in the World bar ours?

Are they though? Surely in the US they pay for NBC and Fox subscriptions etc?
I thought it was just that they covered all the games globally but didn't think they were all free to air?

 

[fatpiranha]

I paid but felt dirty doing it. I also paid for the Khabib fight card last week. I very rarely pay for events like these though. Logically it's like any other product that you choose to buy, but somehow it feels different like you are buying blood diamonds, or panda fur lined Nike's made in a North Korean child incarceration camp.

 

[Rosco1984]

So people want us to spend £100m a transfer window and complain when we don't but also want the club to give away the games for free when they aren't getting any gate receipts the Maths definitely adds up.

 

[Mattspur]

Because they’re free to air for every other country in the World bar ours?

This is not true.

 

[brasil_spur]

Fucking disgraceful that on top of SS, BT and Amazon they want £15 for a one-off game. I'm seriously considering getting properly set-up to stream all matches going forward.

It's just sooo insensitive to the current situation of the world to be charging that much money for a game.

 

[Tiberius Gracchus]

Cancelled my Sky Premier League subscription since the games I actually want to watch are now on Sky Box Office, which I won't be signing up to.

 

[Erm33]

Because they’re free to air for every other country in the World bar ours?

Definitely not true.

In the US you need cable for NBCSN and also pay for peacock streaming service.

 

[worcestersauce]

PL are meeting this week to decide to end the PPV.

I bet there's a lot of opposition from the food banks.
I didn't, I have only this season taken the sky football package so I'm a bit disappointed and so not quite ready to PPV yet.

 

[Yantino]

If the price was reasonable i would've paid it. £14.95 for one game of football is a rip off.

 

[HodisGawd]

No, however, I must admit I nearly did until I looked into the face of my child and wondered "what if he wants to go to university?"

 

[rez9000]

All I can say is thank goodness the payees are in the massive minority. Because the justifications for paying are precisely the things those who want to impose PPV on football (and that's the point of it, not Covid - Covid is just the convenient excuse) want to hear.

 

[brasil_spur]

If the price was reasonable i would've paid it. £14.95 for one game of football is a rip off.

I think anything over a £5 is a rip-off, especially for the lower down teams. Don't you get a kids season ticket at West Ham for about that amount normally?

 

[rez9000]

I think anything over a £5 is a rip-off, especially for the lower down teams. Don't you get a kids season ticket at West Ham for about that amount normally?

Don't be so rude and stupid!

West Ham pay the kids to take the ticket.

 

[HNIM]

Definitely not true.

In the US you need cable for NBCSN and also pay for peacock streaming service.

While that is true, NBCSN is wrapped into the basic sports packages on both cable and DirecTV, so if you watch lots of other sports, the price for PL football prorates out drastically. And Peacock is I think $6.95/mo for the balance of the PL schedule that isn't on NBCSN or network (which is free, but only get one or two matches/week tops).

A fairer comparison to US is the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which gives access to all games not on free TV for about $20/mo last time I checked. That's in no way unreasonable, and I suspect based on better market research. I wouldn't be surprised that if they dropped prices in the UK they'd actually improve revenues.

 

[Escher]

I have been reasonably happy with BT Sport and Sky Sports subscriptions over the years, but fuck this shit. You can't even (legally) invite someone over to share a few beers and watch with you (not even my brother under current lockdown rules)

 

[Erm33]

While that is true, NBCSN is wrapped into the basic sports packages on both cable and DirecTV, so if you watch lots of other sports, the price for PL football prorates out drastically. And Peacock is I think $6.95/mo for the balance of the PL schedule that isn't on NBCSN or network (which is free, but only get one or two matches/week tops).

A fairer comparison to US is the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which gives access to all games not on free TV for about $20/mo last time I checked. That's in no way unreasonable, and I suspect based on better market research. I wouldn't be surprised that if they dropped prices in the UK they'd actually improve revenues.

That's not the point. I was responding to someone who said it was free to air around the rest of the world. Which is totally not true. I don't give a toss about anything else on US TV outside of watching spurs. I have all the streaming services which covers all I want to watch aside from the football. So I have to pay for cable to watch the games on NBCSN and outside of that have a peacock subscription.