Is the Premier League worth £3bn plus?

Joe_Bloggs

The price BSkyB /BT paid is £6.5 million per match. for 2013 to 2016. The previous deal was £4.30 million per match. I am sure that I will not be paying any of this money. Bidding 50% more is as stupid as stupid gets.
J_B.

dori2o

Thrugelmir wrote: »

I watch lower league football these days. Better value. More competitive. More exciting.

Premiership football is over rated. Too many average players earning silly money.

You're havin' a laugh.

I went to watch Oldham last season play Rochdale with a couple of mates and the entry was £18.

For another £6/£8 I could have gone to Old Trafford and watched United.

The price of watching football is outrageous, but even more so in the lower leagues than in the Premier League.

ruggedtoast

shortchanged wrote: »

But this is the main thing that hacks me off about Sky TV and sports.

I don't actually want sky sports for football as I am a rugby fan and seeing as sky has gobbled that all up now there are little options to watch it unless you have Sky.
But seeing as most of Sky sports budget (and therefore their subscription price) is gobbled up to show premiership football it hacks me off that I have to pay such a high subscription to pay for a sport I am not really that interested in.

Shoot that is annoying.

thor

Remember it was the premier league which saved Sky from going bankrupt in the early 1990s. They had movies, music, US dramas etc but nobody gave a f*ck about all that - it was football that persuaded people to shell out for a dish.
I defy anyone to tell me that things have changed much now.
£3 billion is a lot but if one of the other platforms paid the same for the same package then SKY would go bust in less than a year. This is why they have spent such a huge amount.

thor

the_flying_pig wrote: »

probably the real obstacle to a fairer distribution of cash is the way that yer manyoos can threaten to leave the premiership in a way that yer dallas cowboys can't the NFL.

If you think that is unfair then the smaller teams in in the premier league must be thanking their lucky stars that the they don't follow the system in Spain where Barcelona and Real Madrid have their own TV agreements and get almost all the money.
Utd are a massive club but when it comes to premier league tv money, the smaller clubs like Swansea, Fulham and Stoke are massively favoured when you consider viewing figures.

Kennyboy66

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Football is sold internationally.

This rights package was purely the live domestic rights.

The highlights (Match of the Day) are separate (£150m), as are the foreign rights (approx £1.2 billion) as are the internet (no idea).

Sky or course can sell the domestic rights into pubs & licensed venues, which raises a fair amount.

FTBFun

dori2o wrote: »

You're havin' a laugh.

I went to watch Oldham last season play Rochdale with a couple of mates and the entry was £18.

For another £6/£8 I could have gone to Old Trafford and watched United.

The price of watching football is outrageous, but even more so in the lower leagues than in the Premier League.

My local non-league club in the Ryman League Division One South & West charges £8 for entry!

the_flying_pig

thor wrote: »

If you think that is unfair then the smaller teams in in the premier league must be thanking their lucky stars that the they don't follow the system in Spain where Barcelona and Real Madrid have their own TV agreements and get almost all the money.
Utd are a massive club but when it comes to premier league tv money, the smaller clubs like Swansea, Fulham and Stoke are massively favoured when you consider viewing figures.

when you said "Utd" i initially assumed you meant west ham or newcastle but on rereading i realised it was actually manyoo, anyway, yeah, that's right, manyoo have about 3 times the number of game-attending players that stoke do but when it comes to armchair fans i'd guess that the multiplier is closer to 30 [most of these people being miserable excuses for humanity who really ought to be getting out there & supporting their local club], and that's just in the UK. globally it might be 300, even if many of these people are very poor &/or casual fans whose eyeballs are consequently not worth all that much to broadcasters.

if individual clubs were allowed to extract the full value of their broadcast rights manyoo would crush their opposition, la liga style, racking up 100 pts in a 38- game season [like madrid did this yr & barca nearly did last yr], proper world class attacking players banging in 60-70 goals a season, etc against vastly weaker opposition [like messi & ronaldo this yr]. may that day never come.

tony_ack

dori2o wrote: »

You're havin' a laugh.

I went to watch Oldham last season play Rochdale with a couple of mates and the entry was £18.

For another £6/£8 I could have gone to Old Trafford and watched United.

The price of watching football is outrageous, but even more so in the lower leagues than in the Premier League.

This is another symptom of the problem though? Clubs in lower leagues don't have the same sort of Sky money to subsidise player wages and lower turnstile prices. They have to run their club like a small business - the money that comes in from gate receipts and player sales has to pay player wages and operating costs. It's taken a lot of clubs a while to learn these lessons, hence why so many lower league clubs are in trouble.

thor

the_flying_pig wrote: »

when you said "Utd" i initially assumed you meant west ham or newcastle but on rereading i realised it was actually manyoo,

Sorry I do that on purpose as it always gives the same response i.e, ABUs pretending that they thought I meant a smaller club such as Leeds or the ones you mentioned. It always gives me a chuckle as it never fails. Deep down you know if 'United' is mentioned, the vast majority of the population home and abroad will think Manchester United first and I am including places with their own 'Utds' apart from Newcastle maybe.

the_flying_pig wrote: »

if individual clubs were allowed to extract the full value of their broadcast rights manyoo would crush their opposition, la liga style, racking up 100 pts in a 38- game season [like madrid did this yr & barca nearly did last yr], proper world class attacking players banging in 60-70 goals a season, etc against vastly weaker opposition [like messi & ronaldo this yr]. may that day never come.

yeah not really fair to ask Utd to play with one hand tied behind their backs.