Will all be decided today although will probably be next week before it is announced. For the first time it is thought there might not be much of an increase in terms of the money although there will be more games shown.

The packages on offer are:

A: 32 matches - Saturday 12:30 p.m.
B: 32 matches - Saturday 5:30 p.m.
C. 24 matches - Sunday 2 p.m. & 8 matches - Saturday 7:45 p.m.
D. 32 matches - Sunday 4:30 p.m.
E. 24 matches - Monday 8 p.m. or Friday 7:30-8 p.m. & 8 matches - Sunday 2 p.m.
F. All 20 matches from one Bank Holiday and one midweek fixture programme
G. All 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes

The runners and riders are: Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Netflix. The first two are clearly bidding, Amazon are expected to but likely to go for the midweek packages. The other three are less likely to be involved.

These have been the values of the TV deals previously

1992-1997 - £0.191 bn
1997-2001 - £0.67 bn
2001-2004 - £1.2 bn
2004-2007 - £1.024 bn (the only occasion it has gone down)
2007-2010 - £1.706 bn
2010-2013 - £1.773 bn
2013-2016 - £3.018 bn
2016-2019 - £5.136 bn

When are the illegal streaming packages announced?

I like the sound of package A.

How many twixes do we think I'll need to secure the deal?

Package D. 32 matches-Sunday 40:30 pm.

I can't stay up that late!

Looking forward to Saturday night games.

Wish they'd run them instead of lunchtime ones.

starting_11 wrote:Looking forward to Saturday night games.

Wish they'd run them instead of lunchtime ones.

I suspect supporters travelling to away games won't be looking forward to them.

piston broke wrote:Package D. 32 matches-Sunday 40:30 pm.

I can't stay up that late!

You won't need to stay up late - I reckon that is sometime Tuesday morning

The number of games on offer is increased by c 20% to 200 (more than half of all matches!) but there may not be much of a price increase because there probably won't be much concrete interest outside of Sky & BT (fb, google, netflix all rumoured to have not bid) + BT is possibly a bit cooler nowadays.
MotD is paying c 3% more for it's just renewed deal and Sky/BT may not run much more than that -even with all those extra matches.

Plenty of extra £££ to be earned outside UK though, a new deal with China from 2019/20 for £564m over 3 years is (I think) almost 10X what it was. NBC also signed a new big USA deal recently for 2019/20 onwards for 3 years. So even if UK income stalls a bit, there'll be more dosh swimming around 2019 onwards to keep the players in RR/Bentley/Lambos etc.

Does that “All 20 from bank holidays/mid week” been all 10 games playing over Tues/Wed are available to watch?

Dyched wrote:Does that “All 20 from bank holidays/mid week” been all 10 games playing over Tues/Wed are available to watch?

I think so. I'm sure I read last year that from the new deal all midweek games would be screened.

Dyched wrote:Does that “All 20 from bank holidays/mid week” been all 10 games playing over Tues/Wed are available to watch?

It does - they are going to add a Bank Holiday as well as the three midweek games we have and show the lot. It seems these are the packages that might interest Amazon the most.

Does that list imply no sunday 12.00 kick offs? I'm sure Sky occasionally did/do 12, 2 and 4pm sunday games.

Could we try and push through a Burnley away game in Japan?

It's only a matter of time

My methods of going on radio silence and watch the full match replay on Clarets Player the day after has required discipline, but has worked fine. Hardest part has been locating.the replay thumbnail while squinting at the screen to avoid seeing all the other thumbnails that would give the result away....

HiroshimaClaret wrote:Could we try and push through a Burnley away game in Japan?

Ahhh you wouldn't go as the wife would never let you

Hope NBC get the USA rights. Coverage is excellent and inexpensive, but no doubt the price will rise.

" Hope NBC get the USA rights. Coverage is excellent and inexpensive, but no doubt the price will rise"

This auction is just for UK. I believe NBC has the USA deal already taking it up to 2021/2.

Imagine if Sky lost the PL rights, the entire TV package would be useless.

KRBFC wrote:Imagine if Sky lost the PL rights, the entire TV sports package would be useless.

Almost, there would still be the darts, but they'd have to drop the prices considerably.

If Amazon truly want to get into this in a big way they would blow Sky out of the water. It’s only a matter of time. Amazon are growing massively, despite already being huge and cash rich, and aren’t reliant on other TV package deals to make it work. They also own 2/3 of the worlds data cloud on top of their online shopping sites and distribution facilities.

Claretforever wrote:If Amazon truly want to get into this in a big way they would blow Sky out of the water. It’s only a matter of time. Amazon are growing massively, despite already being huge and cash rich, and aren’t reliant on other TV package deals to make it work. They also own 2/3 of the worlds data cloud on top of their online shopping sites and distribution facilities.

They will be able to buy the rights with all the Tax money they have dodged paying over the years.

Let's hope we are on the Premier league bus when it arrives!

I have no idea what the world data cloud is will it burst and it will start raining data ?

Amazon, another outfit that treat their staff like you know what also tax avoiders as eluded to above.

Avoid them like the plague if you can.

NRC wrote:My methods of going on radio silence and watch the full match replay on Clarets Player the day after has required discipline, but has worked fine. Hardest part has been locating.the replay thumbnail while squinting at the screen to avoid seeing all the other thumbnails that would give the result away....

Do you really do that? I'm sure I couldn't!

Just listening to Talksport whilst eating my tea and they said that for the midweek games you can choose which one to watch, like you can with Champions league games at present.

That changes things a bit.

Also less money per game, but more games shown live so shouldn't be an issue.

South West Claret. wrote:Amazon, another outfit that treat their staff like you know what also tax avoiders as eluded to above.

Avoid them like the plague if you can.

If they're successful and we're still in the premier league then not much choice is there. Or do you feel that strongly that you'd boycott.

Not on a wind up, genuine question.

From a selfish point of view I’m looking forward to Saturday night games.

South West Claret. wrote:Amazon, another outfit that treat their staff like you know what also tax avoiders as eluded to above.

Avoid them like the plague if you can.

You say that by I see the other side. When you get to a certain level the salaries are VERY high.

Walt wrote:If they're successful and we're still in the premier league then not much choice is there. Or do you feel that strongly that you'd boycott.

Not on a wind up, genuine question.

Yes of course it’s the only way, hit them where it hurts by not taking out a subscriptions.

Claretforever wrote:You say that by I see the other side. When you get to a certain level the salaries are VERY high.

With respect CF thats beside the point and sadly they not the only Company either.

Tribesmen wrote:Ahhh you wouldn't go as the wife would never let you

How true,how true!!!!!!!!!!!

Claretforever wrote:If Amazon truly want to get into this in a big way they would blow Sky out of the water. It’s only a matter of time. Amazon are growing massively, despite already being huge and cash rich, and aren’t reliant on other TV package deals to make it work. They also own 2/3 of the worlds data cloud on top of their online shopping sites and distribution facilities.

I believe they own Twitch too which is a live streaming app where millions of people daily watch others play game consoles/PC.

Sidney1st wrote:Just listening to Talksport whilst eating my tea and they said that for the midweek games you can choose which one to watch, like you can with Champions league games at present.

That changes things a bit.

Is that for the PL games though? I thought it was just midweek Championship games?

KRBFC wrote:Is that for the PL games though? I thought it was just midweek Championship games?

Honestly I'm not certain BUT I assumed it was PL.

Either way it makes it an attractive option to have if you've got Sky Sports for example.

I seem to remember when whichever commission said that it was bad for football fans with only sky showing the games. They said competition would bring the price down for the fan. Never understood how that would work. In a bidding battle the price is only going to go up. All that as happened is players have got richer, fans have got poorer.

Tax avoiding companies? Why should I lose sleep when there is nothing I can do to ever make a difference? I suspect millions of others are like me so there is never going to be a mass boycott of Amazon, Starbucks et al.

There are people at the Parliamentary trough paid good money to see to matters like that and then thousands of Government employees paid to follow it through.

If I want to watch a specific game I'm not attending I don't care who has the broadcasting rights.

Real life statement.

RammyClaret61 wrote:I seem to remember when whichever commission said that it was bad for football fans with only sky showing the games. They said competition would bring the price down for the fan. Never understood how that would work. In a bidding battle the price is only going to go up. All that as happened is players have got richer, fans have got poorer.

Now people like myself with the full Sky Sports package have to pay a fortune on top just to get BT Sports which I refuse to get so I have to miss all Champions League games, FA Cup games plus games like the North London derby today. When I was with Virgin I got BT Sports for free, I believe it's about £360 a year to add BT Sports channels to Sky package. I miss the Champions League on ITV, I have no idea if they have a chance of getting back any rights.

If this is true then won't it mean Sky Sports subscribers will get any football that BT Sports will be showing?

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When does that come in?

ian wrote:When does that come in?

Good question. I think at the same time as the new deal, so from the 19-20 season, but I'm not sure.

Looks like Sky have basically mopped up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/430 ... name=sport" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BT going back to their lunchtime kickoffs.

Crap games. Crap coverage. Idiotic pundits/presents. Wrong time to be showing it.

I certainly wouldn't be interested... I only have it because its free with my Broadband

Wish they'd have given up - Sky might have the monopoly on it but at least you'll only be paying once, not twice/three times.

FactualFrank wrote:If this is true then won't it mean Sky Sports subscribers will get any football that BT Sports will be showing?

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I'm not sure how that will work, it would deem BT Sports useless unless Sky customers get BT Sports for free like the Virgins do. It's so s##t not being able to watch Champions League games with a full Sky package, even ITV no longer have any rights. The Juve/Spurs tie should be a cracker which I have to miss.

KRBFC wrote:I'm not sure how that will work, it would deem BT Sports useless unless Sky customers get BT Sports for free like the Virgins do. It's so s##t not being able to watch Champions League games with a full Sky package, even ITV no longer have any rights. The Juve/Spurs tie should be a cracker which I have to miss.

Seems BT have the rights until 2021.

I'll bet they're looking for a way out of it though. They paid WAAAAAAAAAAY too much for it. It must be killing them.

starting_11 wrote:Seems BT have the rights until 2021.

I'll bet they're looking for a way out of it though. They paid WAAAAAAAAAAY too much for it. It must be killing them.

A shame, I enjoyed the ITV coverage of the Champions League and Europa League.

KRBFC wrote:I'm not sure how that will work, it would deem BT Sports useless unless Sky customers get BT Sports for free like the Virgins do. It's so s##t not being able to watch Champions League games with a full Sky package, even ITV no longer have any rights. The Juve/Spurs tie should be a cracker which I have to miss.

I might be in the minority here, but I've found watching the highlights on ITV (on tomorrow night) fine.

BT Sport will have to get a much bigger share of the football, and improve their commentary and pundits before I considered paying for it. If they got rid of Michael Owen, that would be a step in the right direction.

FactualFrank wrote:I might be in the minority here, but I've found watching the highlights on ITV (on tomorrow night) fine.

BT Sport will have to get a much bigger share of the football, and improve their commentary and pundits before I considered paying for it. If they got rid of Michael Owen, that would be a step in the right direction.

The highlights are great on ITV but by the time it's on the following day I've seen the result/goals already from somewhere else so it spoils it and there's nothing like watching a live game. If Burnley get into EL next year, i'd wilt and buy BT.