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The cost of televised football

With the recent talk about illegal streams I wondered what would be a fair and just cost to watch football in the UK?

Here in Oz you have two options. $10 per month if added to your phone subscription or $25 per month if you just have it without a phone subscription. For that you get every single game live with instant replays of various lengths (3 mins, 10 mins, full replay etc).

Thats cheap but of course that’s partly because a lot of the games are late at night and it has to be cheap to compete with the AFL and NRL


It’s been a while since I was in the UK but I think I paid £25 for BT Sport and £40 for Sky sports? And that was for a few games a week at best. Amazon was getting in on the act too.

For me a fair price that football fans would happily pay would be £50 a month for every game. What should the solution be as you’d think eventually fans will want access to every game if streaming hacks get taken away.


What do people pay in other countries?

posted 18 hours, 16 minutes ago

I'm not an expert but Google says the PL already goes into 643m homes globally. 15% of those is not an unrealistic target (especially as that doesn't include all the people streaming and not wanting to pay the current amount being charged).
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I mean yeah, if the PL decided to go global streaming e.g. netflix but that would require a lot of work, taking services from various companies across the planet that already exist e.g. native versions of sky and tnt for example.
I don't know how achievable that would be or if it ever would be.
Doing the UK would be far easier.

posted 16 hours, 1 minute ago

comment by RB&W - He kicked lumps out of them (U21434)
posted 5 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 16 minutes ago
A ggd few years ago there was a pay as you go. Just to watch a United game was a fiver. Perfect for me. You paid by card over the phone.
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Really?. Never knew that. Was it legal?
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Yes. It went bust I think, but they wouldn't now. It must have been about 20 years ago and not everyone had cards or were clued up as now.

posted 15 hours, 52 minutes ago

It was called On digital. It was perfect for me.

posted 15 hours, 48 minutes ago

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 4 seconds ago
It was called On digital. It was perfect for me.
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Later called itv digital

posted 14 hours, 50 minutes ago

I pay €120/year for my Firestick which lets me watch basically any match in Europe. I think that price is more than fair.

posted 14 hours, 38 minutes ago

comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 11 minutes ago
I pay €120/year for my Firestick which lets me watch basically any match in Europe. I think that price is more than fair.
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I pay £45 a year for mine. You're getting ripped

posted 14 hours, 38 minutes ago

comment by It’s time for some Lancashire hotPote, R... (U17054)
posted 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (U1192)
posted 2 hours, 25 minutes ago
According to Google the Pl had an audience of 15 million in 2023/24.
The new calculation puts earning at 7.2 billion over 4 years. So a gain of 500 million compared to contracts with sky etc.

I'm sure there are other bonuses they get from sky, tnt, Amazon yhough.
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All of this is before the advertising revenue they’d be able to generate, which would be massive, of course.
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posted 14 hours, 28 minutes ago

comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (U1192)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 11 minutes ago
I pay €120/year for my Firestick which lets me watch basically any match in Europe. I think that price is more than fair.
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I pay £45 a year for mine. You're getting ripped
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The rate the Euro is dropping, I’ll be getting a better deal than you soon enough

posted 12 hours, 51 minutes ago

Better value for money next season when Sky have a tonne more games. I believe that 40 of their additional games will be schedule Tue/Wed/Thu, which means football pretty much every midweek when you account for domestic and European competitions as well.

posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago

I have a very full Sky subscription...it's £125 a month

I've had to give up loose women & fast cars just to keep my head above water

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