I bet Sky and BT have more subscribers than ever but the club's don't get extra from that.
It's a real double if not triple edged sword. Sky and BT are far from blameless that they've paid £4,5bn, they could agree to say stop far earlier in the bidding process, but they obviously calculate that enough consumers will pay for it.2019-22 cost almost £4.5bn for the domestic rights, don't think the blame on this lands on BT/Sky tbh.
This imo is the Premier League trying to make up for lost revenue on match day. Think it's going to backfire, they'll make a little money but most will use the illegal streams that we do already.
Think I've watched 95% of Spurs games for the last 4 years so it really won't make a change for me or many others I would guess. £5 a game or £20/25/month I may be tempted to forget the faff of clicking through overlay ads, streams stuttering or going down but £15/game nah not for me
They are cracking down, I work for an ISP and I know the Premier League are sending us thousands of URLs monthly that we legally have to blockIt’s mental that they think they’ll be able to charge so much for PPV. Unless they are planning on a serious crackdown on streams, then all it will do is drive people to watch for free illegally.
Exactly, even a Now TV game day pass is only £10 so they are charging more than that for a game which wouldn't have been earmarked for TV originally, so a poorer product in the quality of the game and add to that a poorer overall product due to no fans in the stadium, need to be either a mug or loaded to pay 15Jeez, what group of adults would sit in a room and think that £15 per game is a fair figure! It’s just profiteering.
£5 a game and I think people would pay it, but £15 is just ridiculous.
They are cracking down, I work for an ISP and I know the Premier League are sending us thousands of URLs monthly that we legally have to block
Don't know about Russian but my Arabic is على نقطةI don't know mate. My Russian has never been better.
It is and then most just use a VPN to navigate around it as the UK ISPs can only block the URL if u access it from the UKWhack-a-mole though isn't it? There's an infinite amount of possible URL's and the people doing it only have to change a domain or slightly tweak the address and they're back up and running
It must be to force the UK GOV hand to let some crowds ( however limited) back inAlso, if this is as said "the 5 games each round not selected for TV" then surely it's going to be games that weren't deemed as attractive fixtures.
So we gonna get Burnley Vs Fulham for £15. That's a game only a mother could love.
I really don't see the point, unless it's purely testing the waters for something bigger further down the line...
They should have done a season pass for maybe £150-200 and let ppl pay up front or monthly for a discount rate
I didn't read the article, reading the comments came across as though it was a season long arrangement.I'd assume they may think of that but ultimately we don't know how the season will go? They've only announced the PPV stuff for October, right?
By January, whilst unlikely, we could get some fans back in stadiums. So that might be the end of PPV etc... who knows?
I think the season plan or even a full monthly plan only works if that's going to be what they do for a whole season. But this season is so changeable they can't really commit to anything long term