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Pay per view charges for football are disgraceful.

rackitt — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 03:47:16 GMT

I've been SkyTV subscriber since 1991, I am a Sky diamond VIP, I pay £154.50 per month for my subscription, and now they have the audacity to want to charge £14.95 per game to watch live football matches. 29 years and I am seriously thinking of cancelling my TV subscription. I know that the Premier League are losing revenue whilst fans cannot go to the stadiums, but we are all in the same boat here, everyone is suffering from the pandemic, everyone is feeling the pinch. Do the right thing and have a rethink on this decision, it is quite frankly daylight robbery.

PPV Premier League on it's way

ozsat — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:48:54 GMT

Premier League: All fixtures available for live viewing until end of October [BBC]

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

caesarome — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:22:05 GMT

Very crafty, I suppose it is a decent way for them to make even more money and probably opens the door to this happening even when life gets back to normal and the fans return to the grounds.

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

ozsat — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:54:27 GMT

and by staggering the matches to different times they can get £14.95 each game instead of the viewer pick one match.

Football box office

lloydhugo — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:24:11 GMT

Didn't cancel my sports package even when there was no sport on. Didn't suspend it even though was an option. My reward is that if I want to watch certain football matches they are now a box office event. I'll be cancelling my entire sky package when runs out in November . I'm livid!!

Re: Football box office

Annie+UK — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:57:55 GMT

These are just EXTRA matches that would not have been shown on TV, you are given access to them so you don't have to travel to the stadium, why punish sky when this is the FC giving you a safe way to watch these EXTRA matches 🙄

Re: Football box office

nolte — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:54:48 GMT

It was a decision of the Premier league to put the matches not subject to the existing pre pandemicdeals which had 5 games per week, those additional 5 games per week.

The clubs voted 19 - 1 to do this (Leicester was the sole team against it)

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

SKY1992bf — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:21:21 GMT

I'll be surprised if anyone brought a game that doesn't involve there club though I certainly won't be

Re: Football box office

caesarome — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:32:42 GMT

@lloydhugo wrote:

I'll be cancelling my entire sky package when runs out in November . I'm livid!!

You need to direct your anger to the Premier League because it is their product then they get to decide how the games have shown and as a money making exercise they have decided to take it to pay per view on Sky and BT.

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

oj01 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:31:59 GMT

Allegedly, Sky and BT aren't making any money out of this. After deducting production costs, all profits are going to the clubs.

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jookon — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:11:01 GMT

Good time to cancel my Sky Sports subscription tomorrow then. Hopefully I can get hold of your useless customer service. Bye.

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

oj01 — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 18:00:39 GMT

@jookon Intrigued to know why this would make you cancel your Sky Sports subscription when the content covered by your subscription isn't affected at all?

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Annie+UK — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 18:18:01 GMT

Some people are being so stupid over this non-issue, just IGNORE the PPV games and you'll be no worse off than you are now and you'll only be missing out if you was intending to travel to the stadium<s> to watch the match<es> live in person

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

Medicine+Woman — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:31:06 GMT

I was wondering about that. So are you saying planned PPV matches were never going to be shown as part of Sky Football package or BT sports package?

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

Annie+UK — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:24:58 GMT

@Medicine+Woman wrote:

I was wondering about that. So are you saying planned PPV matches were never going to be shown as part of Sky Football package or BT sports package?

Correct, they were supposed to be stadium only matches but COVID ruined that

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

SKY1992bf — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:26:33 GMT

@Medicine+Woman Yes that is correct the games on ppv would never have been part of the normal sports package either from sky or bt

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

nolte — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:30:56 GMT

Yes, the current deal with broadcasters was

Sky - 128 matches

Bt - 52 matches

Amazon - 2 mid week series (which was 20 matches but but as a normal series is 5, could count as 10 matches)

That is 180 for sky and bt over 360 available matches (this excludes the amazon match serieses)

So the 5 per week that will be ppv are the matches not part of the existing broadcast deals

Re: Football box office

lloydhugo — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:54:18 GMT

Ultimately Sky could of said we don't want to be involved in charging people even more money during these testing times. I'm sure they aren't providing a service to watch these extra matches free of charge.

Re: Football box office

nolte — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:22:18 GMT

According to an article on this

"All profits will go to Premier League clubs and not the broadcasters"

So for sky or bt, it won't matter if 1 person buys the match of 1 million people buys a match, it would be the fixed cost of setting it up that they'll get

Re: PPV Premier League on it's way

caesarome — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:45:05 GMT

Had nobody ever heard of covid these games would have been played at 3pm on a Saturday which is a time when Sky and BT can't cover live games.