Pay per view charges for football are disgraceful.

[rackitt]

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.

[ozsat]

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

[caesarome]

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.

[ozsat]

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

[lloydhugo]

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!! 

[Annie+UK]

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 🙄

[nolte]

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) 

[SKY1992bf]

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

[caesarome]

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@lloydhugo wrote:

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

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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.

[oj01]

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

[jookon]

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

[oj01]

@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? 

[Annie+UK]

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

[Medicine+Woman]

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?

[Annie+UK]

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@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?

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