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What is hitting football viewing figures the most?
View Poll Results: Why are football viewing figures down?
Illegal streaming 19 22.35%
Subscription costs 58 68.24%
Over saturation on TV 21 24.71%
Milleniums following the games on social media 2 2.35%
Quality of games being shown 7 8.24%
Teams with big fanbases being relegated 1 1.18%
Teams with small fanbases qualifying for Europe 1 1.18%
BT Showcase being under promoted 6 7.06%
Big games been shown on Fridays and Mondays (SKY) 6 7.06%
Games clashing with other big family shows (Great British Bake Off etc..) 3 3.53%
Interest in football is generally on the slide 10 11.76%
Other 7 8.24%
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Old 02-11-2016, 20:36   #31
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

Greed!
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

I stopped subscribing to Sky Sports a few years ago and put the money into taking my kids to watch local clubs. Although thankfully my boys genuinely enjoyed going to my club's (St Johnstone) games due to the two Dundee teams

a) being rubbish
b) not providing as good an experience for kids.

It's much more enjoyable paying my £16 at the gate (which includes entry for me and my two boys) and enjoying a day out with them than watching games on the telly. So if our schedule allows it (in around the constant stream of birthday parties and my wife's hospital rota) I tend to just take my boys to a live game.

I do still enjoy watching the odd game through the week on BT but I won't miss it when I downgrade....my elder two will soon be only enough to be taking to weeknight games.

Sky Sports had me as a customer but their high prices pushed me out and I won't be going back, I've moved on.
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I stopped subscribing to Sky Sports a few years ago and put the money into taking my kids to watch local clubs. Although thankfully my boys genuinely enjoyed going to my club's (St Johnstone) games due to the two Dundee teams

a) being rubbish
b) not providing as good an experience for kids.

It's much more enjoyable paying my £16 at the gate (which includes entry for me and my two boys) and enjoying a day out with them than watching games on the telly. So if our schedule allows it (in around the constant stream of birthday parties and my wife's hospital rota) I tend to just take my boys to a live game.

I do still enjoy watching the odd game through the week on BT but I won't miss it when I downgrade....my elder two will soon be only enough to be taking to weeknight games.

Sky Sports had me as a customer but their high prices pushed me out and I won't be going back, I've moved on.
Totally agree Mike , I currently have Sky Sports but I would never pay the full price for it. I don't pay for BT and to be honest can easily live without it. I can watch it for 6 months but won't bother after that.
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

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My God, you seem to be paying an awful lot for a batch of channels you no longer watch!
I have to pay for BT Sport and no-one in this house watches any sports!
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

It will eventually crumble down, more and more people are finding out overseas customers pay less and get "all" the games.

The so called competition here only serves to make the consumer pay more, e.g. when BT got some of the rights sky didnt reduce the price to reflect they had less games, they actually did the usual annual price rise. But when sky were allowed to bid for all the uk rights, the extra premier league channel was free to sky sports subscribers.

Likewise free to air CL games that were on itv are now gone, now on BT, and sky also lost the CL. So CL fans who pay for sky now have to also pay for BT sport.

Is clearly not sustainable as we will eventually get to the point it will cost £100 just for the sports channels, and income inflation is nowhere near at the level of home entertainment inflation.
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Old 07-11-2016, 14:14   #36
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

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It will eventually crumble down, more and more people are finding out overseas customers pay less and get "all" the games.

The so called competition here only serves to make the consumer pay more, e.g. when BT got some of the rights sky didnt reduce the price to reflect they had less games, they actually did the usual annual price rise. But when sky were allowed to bid for all the uk rights, the extra premier league channel was free to sky sports subscribers.

Likewise free to air CL games that were on itv are now gone, now on BT, and sky also lost the CL. So CL fans who pay for sky now have to also pay for BT sport.

Is clearly not sustainable as we will eventually get to the point it will cost £100 just for the sports channels, and income inflation is nowhere near at the level of home entertainment inflation.
As I've said previously, prices will only continue to rise as long as people are prepared to pay silly money.
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Old 02-05-2017, 21:46   #37
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

Just thought I'd revisit this thread after a change in my own viewing habits recently. One of the options I gave in the original poll was "Milleniums following the games on social media" which was only selected twice.

I don't have SKY Sports or BT Sport due to family and work commitments. I rarely have the chance to watch a live game at weekends so a subscription to either or both is almost pointless for me.

At the weekend Rangers played Celtic. I was home watching my son whilst my wife worked. I listened to the game on the radio in the background as we played. As the goals started to pour in I searched social media to see if I catch videos of the action. To my delight I found beIN Sport Australia were Tweeting out short videos, lasting between 30 seconds to 50 second, as key events played out during the game. All the goals, near misses, meaty challenges etc... In total they Tweeted 17 videos from the game as it happened. All in excellent picture quality and totally legal. It appears they do this whenever they are showing a game live. They did it the other night posting 23 videos during Roma vs. Lazio and they're doing it again tonight during the Real Madrid game.

I can see why sport coverage is getting more popular on Social Media. I found the combination of listening to the Old Firm game on radio, with regular video clips of the action on Twitter pretty decent. There wasn't a big delay between goals and videos of the goals being Tweeted by beIn Sport, roughly a minute.

This won't be for everyone but to a certain extent it fits in with my circumstances. More than happy to give it another go in future.
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

Just tried that and it's not allowing me to watch the video from the Real Madrid game now. I can view the tweets but the video is rights restricted.
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

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Just tried that and it's not allowing me to watch the video from the Real Madrid game now. I can view the tweets but the video is rights restricted.
That's strange. It allowed me to watch the videos whilst the game was happening but not now
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That's strange. It allowed me to watch the videos whilst the game was happening but not now
It appears Twitter is moving into video
https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/02/twitt...ideo-partners/
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I have to pay for BT Sport and no-one in this house watches any sports!

Am I missing something - why do you have to pay for BT Sport?
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Just tried that and it's not allowing me to watch the video from the Real Madrid game now. I can view the tweets but the video is rights restricted.
They showed clips of all the key moments of tonight's Juventus game. All the clips worked fine for me during the 90 mins. Maybe it's after the finishes they geo-block their videos? That's 3 games in a row I've been able to watch without issue. Must admit I like it. It's about 5 to 7 mins worth of highlights as the game is being played.
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Re: What is hitting football viewing figures the most?

The Premiership is vacuous crap. Foreign players, foreign managers, supporters that don't go to games or have any connection to the cities they 'support'. People have seen through it. Back to basics , go and see your local non league team ( ultra ultra HD, assuming you're wearing your specs), sod the telly and subscriptions.
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The Premiership is vacuous crap. Foreign players, foreign managers, supporters that don't go to games or have any connection to the cities they 'support'. People have seen through it. Back to basics , go and see your local non league team ( ultra ultra HD, assuming you're wearing your specs), sod the telly and subscriptions.
I do enjoy going to see my local team with my Dad. The ground is just around the corner and it's only £5.00 to get in, or free after half time. The pies are great at only £1.00 plus there's a pub across the road serving pints from £2.50.

Forget professional football. My most vivid and fond memory was when our local team played at Ibrox stadium in 1984. 4 generations of my family at the game plus about 3/4 of the town! Amazing day that still gets spoken of fondly today in the local pubs.

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I do enjoy going to see my local team with my Dad.
Forget professional football. My most vivid and fond memory was when our local team played at Ibrox stadium in 1984. 4 generations of my family at the game plus about 3/4 of the town! Amazing day that still gets spoken of fondly today in the local pubs.
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I have a similar story. When I was a teenager, my Grandad used to take me to watch my local team (Grimsby Town) when they were in the old first division. There was the one trip to Wembley to watch them win the Auto Windscreens Trophy final.

I don't think I'd go now by myself, as I used to go with my Grandad and it was a way of spending time in his company, and a bonding experience between us.

However, I don't think any TV Football experience will surpass those memories of watching Clive Mendonca, Paul Groves, John Mcdermott (all club legends now) et al. from the Pontoon Stand. So, if you can go with a relative or someone to support your local team, I definitely recommend it too.
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