Obscene

The bidding to screen the Premier games from 2013-14 to 2015-16 was published today - with Sky getting the bulk of them and BT getting the handful of others - but listen to this - the amount of cash bid was £3.018bn - THREE BILLION POUNDS!!!

The current contract is for ONLY - £1.773bn - in other words a 70% increase or thereabouts.

Where do you think most of the money will be ending up?

It's just madness, greed and more madness!

BSkyB keeps its stranglehold on Premier League football but the rise in the price is staggering. Recession? What recession? Even the Premier League's chief executive admitted he had been slightly taken aback by the vast sums being paid for live coverage of the sport.

The surprise was the arrival of BT as a major player on the football broadcasting market, winning the rights to show 38 matches and replacing ESPN. A spokesman for BT said that it would negotiate to appear on as many different platforms as possible. It was competition from new bidders like this which pushed the price of rights so high.

So Premier League clubs are set for a windfall. Players will no doubt reap the rewards as well. The concern from fans will be over who's going to fund this dramatic rise in rights fees. Supporters will fear that it will be them through increased subscriptions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18430036

You see Gartside, if you'd had the balls to sack Coyle after Christmas we'd still be in the PL and we'd be bloody rich. We could have doubled Zat Knight's wages and paid that fat kitman a £1m bonus.

You fucking idiot Garty.

That's why we had to stay in the Prem. There is no upside to being relegated.

It was announced yesterday that the new TV franchise for the Premier League will be split between Sky - taking basically the same pacakages as they now - and BT - who will set up a football themed channel and will try to have the channel transmittied on all carriages (i.e. Sky, BT Vision, Virgin). this means that ESPN has lost out and will lose the Premiership although they will still ahve a few England games and the FA Cup!

The new rights also means an increase of them by 1.25billion compared to the current deal between Sky and ESPN.



More here...

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/premier-league-announces-audio-visual-rights.html

this makes me feel sick...

how the fuck are we supposed to compete IF and when we do come back up in to the prem?

I mean, we had no money before, but now the premier league clubs are going to be getting a hell of a lot more than we did...when we do come back up you can bet the transfer fees and wages have been so inflated to be totally out of our reach.

The problem is, if the money was split evenly between the league it wouldn't be that bad - but about 70% of it all just goes to the champions league clubs with the rest going to the paupers lower down.

I'm pretty sure there is an agenda in general by the FA and TV companies (maybe for international advertising reasons) to keep the 'big' famous clubs with the big worldwide fanbases at the top of the league.

they keep getting richer and richer and no fuckers doing anything about it.

Sky will be the death of football in a few more years, there will be a Euro 'super league' with all the worlds best players getting paid 500,000 a week...

the top league in the UK will be equivalent to league 2 now...

maybe getting relegated this season will be the death of us... there is just going to be too much money for us to compete if we go back up.

haha...

ive had a rant on another article so il just highlight this nugget of greatness from his majesty, the lord of football ...the much loved Mr Scudamore.... wanker!

"The money is not just put into the hands of the top three or four
clubs," he added. "The way this money is divided means our smallest
clubs are able to compete and, on a match-to-match basis, take on the
big clubs.

Reebok_Rebel wrote:this makes me feel sick...

how the fuck are we supposed to compete IF and when we do come back up in to the prem?

I mean, we had no money before, but now the premier league clubs are going to be getting a hell of a lot more than we did...when we do come back up you can bet the transfer fees and wages have been so inflated to be totally out of our reach.

The problem is, if the money was split evenly between the league it wouldn't be that bad - but about 70% of it all just goes to the champions league clubs with the rest going to the paupers lower down.

I'm pretty sure there is an agenda in general by the FA and TV companies (maybe for international advertising reasons) to keep the 'big' famous clubs with the big worldwide fanbases at the top of the league.

they keep getting richer and richer and no fuckers doing anything about it.

Sky will be the death of football in a few more years, there will be a Euro 'super league' with all the worlds best players getting paid 500,000 a week...

the top league in the UK will be equivalent to league 2 now...

maybe getting relegated this season will be the death of us... there is just going to be too much money for us to compete if we go back up.

Yes the rich keep on getting richer while the rest of us are screwed. Sounds familiar doesn't it.

Reebok_Rebel wrote:haha...

ive had a rant on another article so il just highlight this nugget of greatness from his majesty, the lord of football ...the much loved Mr Scudamore.... wanker!

"The money is not just put into the hands of the top three or four
clubs," he added. "The way this money is divided means our smallest
clubs are able to compete and, on a match-to-match basis, take on the
big clubs.

Just like "We are all in this together".

Greedy bastards, the lot of them. I blame the Lizard of Oz, a power hungry megalomaniac who even had politicians in his pocket.

He should be deported to Australia as a crook. That's what they did in the god old days.

The South Sea Bubble all over again ! Sooner or later it will burst, and I reckon the safest place will be the Championship, because those teams, through necessity, are closer to their supporters, and have to manage their finances in a far more realistic fashion.

You can bet your bottom dollar that Scudamore will be due a tidy bonus for securing the deal.

ESPN are now dead in the water as they haven't got a single live Premiership game.

I'm hope ESPN becomes free now, so I can watch Serie A.

ESPN still have this coming season, as the new TV franchise doesn't kick-in until the start of the 2013/2014 season.

ESPN will also have the FA Cup, a small amount of England games (when they play away). Also heard that they may have won the rights to the Amsterdam Tournament as well!!!

Don't be surprised if one of two things happen. BT create a pay-per-view channel, akin to Sky's The Prem Channel, where one can either buy a season ticket at a discounted price or pay seperately for the games; or BT teams up with either ESPN or Al Jazeera Sport (as AJS was one of the competitors to get a franchise packet) for airtime to show the games.

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At least, if we can get promotion this season, we will be part of the massive payouts.

If anything, promotion is now more of an urgency than ever before so we can be in the Premier League for when the new TV franchises begin.

Have the BBC still got highlights for Match of the Day?

Natasha Whittam wrote:Have the BBC still got highlights for Match of the Day?

yep...

il have to stay up later this season though, il be more interested in its little sister... 'the football league show'

we should be on first a fair few times too!

Reebok_Rebel wrote:

yep...

il have to stay up later this season though, il be more interested in its little sister... 'the football league show'

we should be on first a fair few times too!

I thought the BBC had cancelled that show?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Reebok_Rebel wrote:

yep...

il have to stay up later this season though, il be more interested in its little sister... 'the football league show'

we should be on first a fair few times too!

I thought the BBC had cancelled that show?

really?

Thanks Hipster, that's good news. I enjoy that show, we might even get a bit of coverage next season.

BBC have retained the rights for both the Football League Show (for 3 seasons starting with 2012/13) with options of repeating on BBC player and now the possibility of repeats on sunday morning on BBC2 now that children's programmes are going to be removed at the end of the year

BBC have also retained the rights for Match of the Day (for 3 seasons starting with 2013/14) with now the option of repeats on BBC Player - and with continued Sunday morning repeats. Also MOTD2 will also get aired on BBC Player

Note: The BBC Player "broadcasts" will only start on midnight of the Monday after the weekends action