Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
16-08-2019, 19:12
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Originally Posted by Raider999
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No comment necessary, really. The TV channels were not exactly falling over themselves for La Liga, were they?
A nice cheap way to fill the ITV4 channel schedule, I guess.
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16-08-2019, 19:40
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
No comment necessary, really. The TV channels were not exactly falling over themselves for La Liga, were they?
A nice cheap way to fill the ITV4 channel schedule, I guess.
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As ever with Old Boy there's a reasonable grasp of facts coupled with pretty poor analysis and the wrong conclusion.
Sky/BT weren't falling over themselves mainly because Eleven demonstrated how little value the rights had. There's no mass appetite from the public to pay £6 or £8 a month more for what is ultimately minority interest content.
The rights used to have value because of the great 'unknown' of what would happen. Now we know.
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16-08-2019, 20:08
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
A nice cheap way to fill the ITV4 channel schedule, I guess.
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Amazon could have snapped it up but of course the same old song played out...
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16-08-2019, 20:09
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
looks like you can only watch La Liga on the TV. Tried TV Go and ITV Hub and both say Programme not available on this platform.
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17-08-2019, 10:32
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Originally Posted by jfman
As ever with Old Boy there's a reasonable grasp of facts coupled with pretty poor analysis and the wrong conclusion.
Sky/BT weren't falling over themselves mainly because Eleven demonstrated how little value the rights had. There's no mass appetite from the public to pay £6 or £8 a month more for what is ultimately minority interest content.
The rights used to have value because of the great 'unknown' of what would happen. Now we know.
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I thought that was pretty much what I was getting at, old bean.
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18-08-2019, 19:54
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Amazon could have snapped it up but of course the same old song played out...
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Amazon are probably not interested in Spanish football!
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18-08-2019, 19:54
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Amazon are probably not interested in Spanish football!
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I hear it’s quite big in Spain.
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18-08-2019, 20:02
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Amazon are probably not interested in Spanish football!
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I hear it’s quite big in Spain.
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Yes, they have a Spanish website... 
https://www.amazon.es/
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18-08-2019, 20:03
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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I hear it’s quite big in Spain.
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Probably is, being Spanish and all that, but Im sure they'd really want to catch the big one, which we all know is the EPL!
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18-08-2019, 20:07
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
I’d assume the all mighty all powerful Amazon, with deep pockets, would want compelling content from all over the world. The Premier League isn’t the compelling content in other territories that some seem to think it is. It’s not going to sell millions of Prime subscriptions in Spain, for example.
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18-08-2019, 20:09
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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I’d assume the all mighty all powerful Amazon, with deep pockets, would want compelling content from all over the world. The Premier League isn’t the compelling content in other territories that some seem to think it is. It’s not going to sell millions of Prime subscriptions in Spain, for example.
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You know that for a fact then, do you?
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18-08-2019, 20:17
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
No comment necessary, really. The TV channels were not exactly falling over themselves for La Liga, were they?
A nice cheap way to fill the ITV4 channel schedule, I guess.
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Looked through the schedules for the weekend, but couldn't see any sign of la liga coverage on itv4.
Has it started yet?
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18-08-2019, 20:28
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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You know that for a fact then, do you?
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Yes. In other countries it’s minority interest content.
In Germany they watch German football, in Italy they watch Italian football... and so on.
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Looked through the schedules for the weekend, but couldn't see any sign of la liga coverage on itv4.
Has it started yet?
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Friday night - Bilbao v Barcelona was live.
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18-08-2019, 20:28
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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Yes. In other countries it’s minority interest content.
In Germany they watch German football, in Italy they watch Italian football... and so on.
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That may be, however EPL is very strong in countries that don't have a half decent league of their own.
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18-08-2019, 20:36
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Re: Football on Virgin Media (Season 18/19)
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That may be, however EPL is very strong in countries that don't have a half decent league of their own.
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Yes, but jfman knows better, thought you knew that,Raider....
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