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Originally Posted by Raider999
It is difficult to fault your logic. The fly in the ointment may be EPL selling rights directly to customers.
Many years ago, the thought was that you would be able to buy a season ticket to watch your favourite clubs matches (home and away).
This never got off the ground - I suspect because they didn't have the tech to do it.
Now the streamers have shown you can stream games live all you need is a method of getting payment. advertising the new service would be cheap as they can do it mid game throughout the season - preparing people for the next season.
This would blow the streamers out of the water as the content wouldn't be available.
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I'd say it's more likely that the league would resort to retailing directly than someone comes from nowhere to take on the risk.
Season tickets for clubs would be interesting - and a genuinely new offering so has the potential to attract more customers - although the 3pm blackout (which I profoundly disagree with) remains the problem, but with so few Premiership games actually taking place then would it really be an issue to move the 'main' kick off time to 1pm or a Sunday?
The way to league could test demand would be to offer the rest of the games over and above the main contract TV games on their own service for a 3 year period before seeking to take full control themselves.
The issue for the League is that while such an offering has potential - the contracts with existing TV companies are no risk money in their hands.