Premier League TV football choice 'upheld' by EU advice

[Sexual Ealing]

Whilst anything that's bad for Murdoch is good news to me, I'd worry that the 'big' clubs, on receipt of a reduced offer from Sky, would push for the abandonment of the collective negotiation principle and do their own deals.

[Mac]

http://bulsat.com/tv.php

148 BGN (~ 65GBP) equipment + 16 BGN (~7GBP) monthly for the package that gets both channels showing premiership football (Diema and Nova Sport). You get 6 PL games per weekend + FA cup games (don't know how many) + you get between 4-6 CL games in CL weeks plus UEFA cup games. (plus quite a lot of other stuff like Spanish primera, Bundesliga, Russian top division may be italy too etc.)

Even I would be tempted.

Of course what woyuld happen is that Sky would become the EUROPEAN broadcasters and there would be limited (if any) reselling to other broadcasters.

I think there's money to be made buying the kit locally Tsvet and bringing over to Birmingahm and re-selling!

[Chris Smith]

A victory for the common man.

Without tthinking too deeply on it, I hope this is the beginning of the end for Sky and their huge influence on the game.

Its probably not though.

It's still Sky who provide all the content.

[johncvilla88]

Hopefully Virgin Media are exploring getting hold of Nova sports carrier rights and have it for next year's premier league matches for a lot cheap!

[eastie]

So if I have sky , how do I go about getting this instead, anyone local who fits decoder etc and will I need a new dish? What sort of monthly cost and installation cost ?

Paying sky £80 a month at the moment so I am interested to switch.

[bertlambshank]

So if I have sky , how do I go about getting this instead, anyone local who fits decoder etc and will I need a new dish? What sort of monthly cost and installation cost ?

Paying sky £80 a month at the moment so I am interested to switch.

You could use your SKY dish,but it have to face in a different direction.A dish that moves is the way to go.

[Clampy]

Maybe if Sky did'nt charge pubs and clubs so bloody much then they would'nt have to do what they're doing.

[eamonn]

Whilst anything that's bad for Murdoch is good news to me, I'd worry that the 'big' clubs, on receipt of a reduced offer from Sky, would push for the abandonment of the collective negotiation principle and do their own deals.

That's the big fear for me. If we think it's all about the Sky 4 (5?) now wait til clubs are allowed to negotiate their own tv deal - the gap between the Champs League clubs and the rest will just expand tenfold. It's already happened in Spain - Real and Barca's tv income dwarves the 18 other clubs to such an embarassing degree that the relatively recent days of Valencia and Depor winning La Liga seem a fond and distant memory now, and are never likely to happen again.

[hawkeye]

As i understand it the dish satelite set up is old technology, the increased telecom  band width that is around the corner will make it impossible for any TV co to control where there broadcasts are captured, internet streaming is allready having an impact and the days of a single broadcaster like sky controlling the transmission will soon be over. i have no idea how this will shake down.

[The Left Side]

Good for the pub, landlord and pubgoers!

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Just downloaded Nova sports and watched skysports 1 and ESPN simples ..........

[Percy McCarthy]

Whilst anything that's bad for Murdoch is good news to me, I'd worry that the 'big' clubs, on receipt of a reduced offer from Sky, would push for the abandonment of the collective negotiation principle and do their own deals.

That's the big fear for me. If we think it's all about the Sky 4 (5?) now wait til clubs are allowed to negotiate their own tv deal - the gap between the Champs League clubs and the rest will just expand tenfold. It's already happened in Spain - Real and Barca's tv income dwarves the 18 other clubs to such an embarassing degree that the relatively recent days of Valencia and Depor winning La Liga seem a fond and distant memory now, and are never likely to happen again.

Can't see the necessary 14 clubs voting for that.

[Sexual Ealing]

Whilst anything that's bad for Murdoch is good news to me, I'd worry that the 'big' clubs, on receipt of a reduced offer from Sky, would push for the abandonment of the collective negotiation principle and do their own deals.

That's the big fear for me. If we think it's all about the Sky 4 (5?) now wait til clubs are allowed to negotiate their own tv deal - the gap between the Champs League clubs and the rest will just expand tenfold. It's already happened in Spain - Real and Barca's tv income dwarves the 18 other clubs to such an embarassing degree that the relatively recent days of Valencia and Depor winning La Liga seem a fond and distant memory now, and are never likely to happen again.

Can't see the necessary 14 clubs voting for that.

They might if the bullies say they're fucking off to Qatar with juve, Real madrid & Spurs etc

[Percy McCarthy]

Whilst anything that's bad for Murdoch is good news to me, I'd worry that the 'big' clubs, on receipt of a reduced offer from Sky, would push for the abandonment of the collective negotiation principle and do their own deals.

That's the big fear for me. If we think it's all about the Sky 4 (5?) now wait til clubs are allowed to negotiate their own tv deal - the gap between the Champs League clubs and the rest will just expand tenfold. It's already happened in Spain - Real and Barca's tv income dwarves the 18 other clubs to such an embarassing degree that the relatively recent days of Valencia and Depor winning La Liga seem a fond and distant memory now, and are never likely to happen again.

Can't see the necessary 14 clubs voting for that.

They might if the bullies say they're fucking off to Qatar with juve, Real madrid & Spurs etc

Hopefully they'd just say 'carry on'. I know I would.

[Sexual Ealing]

Me too. But they don't give the likes of you and me many seats on the board.