Thread: General ESPN may lose EPL Football(Update)
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Old 13-06-2012, 23:00   #133
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Re: ESPN may lose EPL Football
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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
It's not even going to be a sports channel. From BT's own press release:

"We will launch a new football-focused channel"

So what other football rights could they land as I can't see football fans being excitied about having to subscribe to a channel offering 1 live game per week. As far as I'm aware most competitions such as the FA Cup, League Cup, The Championship, SPL, Champions League and Europa League are locked down for the next 3 to 5 years. I'm not sure what the current contract positions are for home national internationals.

I noticed ESPN suggested today they will continue on, which is exactly what a company in their position should say. They've still got subscriptions to sell over the next 12 months. I suspect they might reconsider their position nearer to losing the Premier League rights. Maybe they'll either pull out of the UK and sell their rights to BT or split some of their rights with BT.
ESPN still have FA Cup and I think Europa League. Plus German football which (tonight included ) is actually very watchable and on par with the EPL for entertainment value.

They also have, for better or worse, some SPL. ....I suspect VM will have a chat with them and say "well......you've lost like, ALL of your EPL games after this upcoming season so we'll like to reduce the money we give you. Ta."

---------- Post added at 23:00 ---------- Previous post was at 22:57 ----------

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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
Yeah but SKY aren't trying to charge extra for it as a stand alone channel. SKY don't just show the race, they also broadcast the qualifying and have various shows during the week building up to each race. To pad their football channel out, BT would need to show both teams training through the week live and have coverage of the away teams bus journey to the home teams ground etc...
....and feature what music each player listened to their iPod on the way to the game and what they like to eat and what video games they like to play after the game and what their high score was in Call of Duty.

That would pad things out nicely. Until the Monday after the game.
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