£340million broadcaster rebate

[MiceOnMeth]

Imagine Google got the rights and just stuck all the matches on YouTube. YouTube premium subscribers (say 10-15 pounds a month) get all the matches live and without ads and can also watch any match on demand. Non premium YouTube watchers can watch 1 selected match per match day for free with the caveat of 30 second ads every 10 minutes or so. YouTube has a global audience of billions of people who watch it everyday and who would already see value in the premium service(no ads + YouTube music) now add the Premier league into that premium service and its an absolute no brainer and would print money.

 

[Offsideagain]

Wow, that's a large chunk of money from clubs. Did the PL (clubs) not have insurance for this kind of situation?

Insurance! A mate of mine had ‘Interruption of business’ insurance and guess what? Covid-19 wasn’t covered in the policy. I mean, who had ever heard of Covid-19 except the scientists. They wriggle out of these policies if they can.

 

[Pink Moon]

Sure that paragraph is what is already happening?

Utd and liverpool, to a lesser extent city are on sky the most, watched the most and share their income. Thats no different to now.

Yeah but Sky as a whole broadcast a whole range of sports and the people who watch those clubs may well subscribe to Sky anyway to watch stuff like cricket of F1 not to mention they also make a ton of money from non-sports entertainment, broadband etc. If a standalone project like PL TV were to form it would soon become apparent that at most a handful of clubs would be responsible for the majority of the income.

 

[Greck]

Imagine Google got the rights and just stuck all the matches on YouTube. YouTube premium subscribers (say 10-15 pounds a month) get all the matches live and without ads and can also watch any match on demand. Non premium YouTube watchers can watch 1 selected match per match day for free with the caveat of 30 second ads every 10 minutes or so. YouTube has a global audience of billions of people who watch it everyday and who would already see value in the premium service(no ads + YouTube music) now add the Premier league into that premium service and its an absolute no brainer and would print money.

The TV companies see sports as their last stand. Their desperation is why they are throwing huge money at sports bodies for exclusivity, see the massive deal espn payed the Nba. Streaming services will one day be strong enough to outbid them effortlessly but for now the TV companies are more willing to allocate a huge chunk of their budget to fend off others

 

[Fox_Chrys]

To me when you need exclusivity on something it means you know your product is not good on its own merits.

How many people would pay sky £50+ a month if the same games were also available on say amazon/netflix?

Sky's model since they showed up in the 1990s has been to get things exclusively, whether its movies, sports or tv shows. Its telling that the sole reason we have no F1 TV in the UK because sky uk is the only broadcaster worldwide to refuse to drop exclusivity on their deal.

 

[fps]

To me when you need exclusivity on something it means you know your product is not good on its own merits.

How many people would pay sky £50+ a month if the same games were also available on say amazon/netflix?

Sky's model since they showed up in the 1990s has been to get things exclusively, whether its movies, sports or tv shows. Its telling that the sole reason we have no F1 TV in the UK because sky uk is the only broadcaster worldwide to refuse to drop exclusivity on their deal.

Not at all, it’s simply business. You pay for exclusivity because you become the only destination for something, and get that audience. You answered your question yourself, if the same games are available elsewhere Sky has to reduce its prices and it’s profit.

 

[Black Rick]

Given the current financial difficulties of Premier League clubs, and the fact that UEFA has already relaxed its separate Financial Fair Play rules, I am surprised that the possibility of the Premier League relaxing its own domestic Financial Fair Play rules isn't on tomorrow's meeting agenda.

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