Sky and BBC

[Guest LondonScottish]

Sky and BBC today reached a

[minijc]

Decent the more football on the box the better i say, although i would prefer it if there was more scottish games on it too.

[Bobby Connor]

Utter lunacy.

[paulkaneatemyhamster]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

[vanderark14]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

 

didt you know that english football is by far the most amazing league in the world

[Guest LondonScottish]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

 

 

It does seem incredible that Sky and BBC would want to pay that amount to include League 1 and 2 football. And it can't be good for the small clubs as many fans, especially travelling ones may decide to become armchair fans, and take away from the atmosphere.

 

What kind of money are Setanta paying just out of curiousity?

[Bobby Connor]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

 

As a nation our media and fans do ourselves no favours in constantly bashing the SPL.

 

This deal is bad news for Scottish football - yet more wealth for down south.

[Bobby Connor]

Interesting fact. Our '83 ECWC final was shown to 800M viewers in 40 countries. England was not one of those countries.

 

Tells you all you need to know I guess?

[Guest LondonScottish]

As a nation our media and fans do ourselves no favours in constantly bashing the SPL.

 

This deal is bad news for Scottish football - yet more wealth for down south.

 

 

The money does seem a lot, even if you break it down into

[Bobby Connor]

I'd be interested to know what percentage of that 264M each broadcaster paid?

[The Hobbit]

To watch that sh*te. Jesus wept.

[K-9]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

Just that both corporations are based in England and only seem interested in English football. Sure a few pennies will be thrown in the direction of Scotland though as a token gesture.

[Guest LondonScottish]

I'd be interested to know what percentage of that 264M each broadcaster paid?

 

Probably about

[Bobby Connor]

It does seem incredible that Sky and BBC would want to pay that amount to include League 1 and 2 football. And it can't be good for the small clubs as many fans, especially travelling ones may decide to become armchair fans, and take away from the atmosphere.

 

What kind of money are Setanta paying just out of curiousity?

 

http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?ti...p;id=1842122006

 

54M over 4 years with the top 2 clubs claiming a 3rd of that pot.

[Guest LondonScottish]

http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?ti...p;id=1842122006

 

54M over 4 years with the top 2 clubs claiming a 3rd of that pot.

 

 

Thats shocking and embarrassing. How the ***k can some of the sh*te in League 1 and 2 be getting more than we are?? Utter bollocks.

[dj_bollocks]

Did nobody learn from the ITV Digital disaster....

 

Championship football is gash - who wants to watch QPR vs Colchester - they hardly draw in a crowd so how are they going to draw in any ratings...

 

And to be fair - I'm generally quite happy with Setanta's coverage of Scottish football - although they clearly want more Premiership footy rights, but hopefully that won't be at the expense of our football - bin the Blue Square mince (although that's probably where our next star signing is coming from !) and show a Saturday and a Sunday SPL game

[K-9]

They (Setanta) added the extra games not including the old firm in and paid a wee bit more but not too much more. Minimal monies from ITV/BBC for SPL highlights and a few quid from BBC for League Cup coverage and from Sky for Scottish Cup coverage.

[Bobby Connor]

Thats shocking and embarrassing. How the ***k can some of the sh*te in League 1 and 2 be getting more than we are?? Utter bollocks.

 

Did you no hear? SPL is conference standard at best

 

TBH, unless we can sell our game abroad then our small population will always mean we command less TV revenue.

 

At least what we do get could be shared out evenly though - y'know in the interests of the competitive league the OF claim to want.

[vanderark14]

http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?ti...p;id=1842122006

 

54M over 4 years with the top 2 clubs claiming a 3rd of that pot.

 

why the ***k am i not surprised at this.

[paulkaneatemyhamster]

http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?ti...p;id=1842122006

 

54M over 4 years with the top 2 clubs claiming a 3rd of that pot.

 

so 13.5 m a year with 4.5m going to places 1 & 2 in the league ( 2.25m each, assuming it's a even split) and 900k each for the rest of us

 

what a huge diff finishing 2nd would make over coming 3rd financially.

 

In the EPL does every club get a even split yearly or is it weighted in favor of the big teams ?

[fatshaft]

Did nobody learn from the ITV Digital disaster....

 

Championship football is gash - who wants to watch QPR vs Colchester - they hardly draw in a crowd so how are they going to draw in any ratings...

 

And to be fair - I'm generally quite happy with Setanta's coverage of Scottish football - although they clearly want more Premiership footy rights, but hopefully that won't be at the expense of our football - bin the Blue Square mince (although that's probably where our next star signing is coming from !) and show a Saturday and a Sunday SPL game

 

As ever the EPL is over-rated and the rest piggy backs along. If anyone watched the Edinburgh Derby followed by the West Ham Bolton game on Sunday, there was no doubt which one had the better football and was the better spectacle, but you'd never convince an Englishman, none of whom will have watche the former game of course.

[Guest LondonScottish]

so 13.5 m a year with 4.5m going to places 1 & 2 in the league ( 2.25m each, assuming it's a even split) and 900k each for the rest of us

 

what a huge diff finishing 2nd would make over coming 3rd financially.

 

In the EPL does every club get a even split yearly or is it weighted in favor of the big teams ?

 

 

Is it the "top two" clubs or have Rangers and Celtic, not written themselves in as taking the biggest slice in the contract, whoever comes 1st and 2nd??

[Bobby Connor]

Is it the "top two" clubs or have Rangers and Celtic, not written themselves in as taking the biggest slice in the contract, whoever comes 1st and 2nd??

 

It's whoever comes 1st and 2nd. There is a ladder all the way down though which is why there is always talk about each position being worth

[Dynamo]

Decent the more football on the box the better i say

 

[Guest LondonScottish]

It's whoever comes 1st and 2nd. There is a ladder all the way down though which is why there is always talk about each position being worth

[K-9]

Cheers. I didn't know.

Me neither. So Hearts took the bulk of the money assumed was going to Rangers after finishing 2nd despite Rangers having to play every 2nd week on a Sunday for telly?

 

I thought with Setanta having Rangers TV and Celtic TV that was why they got the most.

[Bobby Connor]

I thought with Setanta having Rangers TV and Celtic TV that was why they got the most.

 

They may get additional, separate money for that. Don't know TBH.

 

If you remember a few years back - the big hoo ha about the rest of the league splitting from the OF was down to this very issue. OF wanted most of the TV money and the other clubs said OFGTF.

[Guest redbrigade]

Is Scottish football so bad and so unpopular that neither SKY or BBC are interested in showing it or paying for it ?

 

Setanta out bid Sky for the SPL rights. When is it next due to be renegotiated?

BBC show Scottish Cup and away internationals, and our UEFA cup campaign!

[Sharpie]

Decent the more football on the box the better i say, although i would prefer it if there was more scottish games on it too.

 

This is not good in any shape or form. This will affect the SPL in a negative manner.

[TheChimp]

This is not good in any shape or form. This will affect the SPL in a negative manner.

 

Do you think BBC Scotland would stop showing the Sunday afternoon Eastenders/River City omnibus in favour of Hull v Bristol City?