Sports tv rights thread

[Bridgy 81]

I think this is as good as anywhere to put this.
I’m intending to take out a month’s subscription to TNT Sports (similar to what I did this time last year).
I’ll activate it a week today and have it from 9th April - 8th May.
During that time that’ll give me access to:
Most of the latter stages of the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League (The finals are broadcast free anyway).
Several decent Premier League matches and the National League playoffs including the finals of NLS and NLN.
Plus loads of Italian, French and Australian league matches.
I can do this through Amazon Prime for around £30.
Then I’ll cancel it.
Bargain.

 

[MJP_Exeter]

I think this is as good as anywhere to put this.
I’m intending to take out a month’s subscription to TNT Sports (similar to what I did this time last year).
I’ll activate it a week today and have it from 9th April - 8th May.
During that time that’ll give me access to:
Most of the latter stages of the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League (The finals are broadcast free anyway).
Several decent Premier League matches and the National League playoffs including the finals of NLS and NLN.
Plus loads of Italian, French and Australian league matches.
I can do this through Amazon Prime for around £30.
Then I’ll cancel it.
Bargain.

It is on the biggest advantage of the modern day subscription model, is you can subscribe to the bits you want. I currently have TNT Sports, Eurosport and discovery plus for £10 a month at this moment until March next year and Sky Sports for £19.99 a month with NOW TV on a month by month deal until September, so the price stays the same, but I can cancel anytime before the offer ends.

 

[MJP_Exeter]

BBC Sport signs extended WSL TV deal for 2024-25

BBC Sport will show up to 22 Women's Super League matches across all platforms in the 2024-25 season.

www.google.com

BBC and sky extend WSL for another season

 

[MJP_Exeter]

Have seen this on Now TV for anyone looking to use NOW TV to watch EFL Matches next season. It appears the Day pass will give access also.

Watching the EFL with NOW

Learn more about watching the EFL on NOW. Discover our Sports Membership, how to start watching and how to apply a voucher code.

help.nowtv.com

 

[iscalad]

Have seen this on Now TV for anyone looking to use NOW TV to watch EFL Matches next season. It appears the Day pass will give access also.

Watching the EFL with NOW

Learn more about watching the EFL on NOW. Discover our Sports Membership, how to start watching and how to apply a voucher code.

help.nowtv.com

Put their prices up, I see. Seems match passes are no longer available.

 

[Boyo]

I see that every L1 club will feature at least 20 times next season. I think it includes all the mid-week games, but that still leaves a lot of likely disruption to 3pm Saturday KO times. The 12:30 Saturday game vs. Oxford was a real pain for anyone who has kids that play grassroots football on Saturday mornings, which are often a 10:30 KO.

 

[MJP_Exeter]

I see that every L1 club will feature at least 20 times next season. I think it includes all the mid-week games, but that still leaves a lot of likely disruption to 3pm Saturday KO times. The 12:30 Saturday game vs. Oxford was a real pain for anyone who has kids that play grassroots football on Saturday mornings, which are often a 10:30 KO.

This is going to be a huge problem for me next season if we have loads moved

 

[MJP_Exeter]

FA Cup 2025 on TV: BBC Sport signs new four-year free-to-air deal

BBC Sport will continue to show free-to-air coverage of the FA Cup, securing a four-year deal starting from the 2025-26 season.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC confirmed as FTA provider for the FA Cup. 2 matches per round, 1 semi final and the final, alongside highlights and digital clip rights (So in essence the deal it had prior to the ITV Joint Deal with BT Sport). Whilst I think moving the ITV Element to Pay tv is a really bad idea, it is good the BBC Have retained the FTA element over ITV

SJP Used in the FA's Announcement on Facebook

 

[MJP_Exeter]

So for the next few years now football is largely tied down its contracts. Just the EFL Highlights contract left I think for next season.

Premier league - 215 on Sky, 52 on TNT and Highlights BBC Sport until 29.
EFL - Over 1,000 matches on Sky, FTA Highlights not announced until 29.
FA Cup - ITV / BBC next season, then BBC / TNT from 25-26 for four years
National league - TNT Sports (unsure how long for)
England matches - Qualifiers, Nations league and Friendlies ITV, BBC / ITV Tournament matches until 28.

 

[Stelios]

FA Cup 2025 on TV: BBC Sport signs new four-year free-to-air deal

BBC Sport will continue to show free-to-air coverage of the FA Cup, securing a four-year deal starting from the 2025-26 season.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC confirmed as FTA provider for the FA Cup. 2 matches per round, 1 semi final and the final, alongside highlights and digital clip rights (So in essence the deal it had prior to the ITV Joint Deal with BT Sport). Whilst I think moving the ITV Element to Pay tv is a really bad idea, it is good the BBC Have retained the FTA element over ITV

SJP Used in the FA's Announcement on Facebook

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The last deal was great for me. The problem with theses types of deals is the BBC tend to go for the ‘big name ties’ . They just can’ t resist showing Man Utd etc even if there are more interesting games in a round