16 Dec 2023 01:27 PM
18 Dec 2023 09:58 AM
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@holeinmyshoe wrote:
And finally - and some of you out there may feel I am being sexist - but I am not at all interested in seeing women play football (nor is my wife) simply because we want to see the game played at its highest level, but during the recent international break, Sky showed a couple of all girl games, and while I have no problem with this being on TV as I know lots of people enjoy it, I am not happy that I am being charged to watch something I have no interest in.
You've answered that question yourself. During the international break they showed more WSL football because there wasn't any Premier League football on. Same as in June and July you pay for the PL channel but there aren't any games to show.
18 Dec 2023 10:34 AM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more@holeinmyshoe that's kind of how sports channels work, you get a variety of competitions from that sport on specially branded channels e.g sky sports crickets shows all types of cricket, sky sports f1 shows all types of motor racing formulas. You aren't paying for access to one particular competition of any sport.
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18 Dec 2023 01:24 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreThe amount of your sky sports subscription that goes for the Premier league rights compared to the women's super league is considerably a lot more.
The new sky pl deal seems to be for 6.7bn over 4 years, current English football league is nearly a billion (£935m) for five seasons
In comparison, the wsl deal with sky and bbc is 8 million per season
So based on rough calculation, that is 232 times more.
So substantially more of your fee g
18 Dec 2023 04:13 PM - last edited: 18 Dec 2023 04:44 PM
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And, not coincidentally, the average WSL player earns considerably less in a year than the average PL player does in a week...
18 Dec 2023 04:16 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreI read recently that Lionesses captain Leah Williamson is on £150k a year at Arsenal. That will seem outrageous to some people but as @TimmyBGood states, quite a few PL players are on that a week.
18 Dec 2023 04:20 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreAren't they planning on relaunching the WSL as the women's premier league with better title sponsor and everything in the longer term.
i believe this was the plan as part of the FA no longer controlling and running the WSL and Women's championships from the 24/25 season and it being run like the premier league as an independent body.
id expect a bit more investment and better Tv commercials to likely come as a result in within the next 5 years hopefully. Doubt it will ever reach the level of the men's premier league but that clearly has too much money and at some point that bubble will well and truly burst as it's done in a number of other European leagues.
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18 Dec 2023 04:23 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreYeah and typically that was Arsenal subsiding the cost of the women's team using the money the men's team generates, as historically the money coming in for the women's game has been awful and to grow the game it's needed extra investment.
it starting to change with the Arsenal women breaking WSL attendence records now and having 55,000 people watching the half a dozen games they play at the Emirates from this season, but there is a way to go until a lot of the other teams catch up and decide to put the same level of investment in that Arsenal and Chelsea tend to do.
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