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Post by ukcstokie on Jul 16, 2009 22:55:13 GMT
Looking on Sky at the moment there's a ManUre TV channel. Also Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool & Real Madrid. OK we couldn't get an TV channel on Sky ... or could we?
Say 4 or 5 clubs got together to form a TV channel - eg Stoke, Sunderland, Wolves, Brum & Portsmouth. Charged a subscription (more clubs = more revenue cf with the other club TV channels).
Each team would get a set amount of air time. Say every day there was 2 or 3 hours on Stoke plus 1 hour live transfer/team talk?
Would it work.
Would you pay the say £5/month to make it work?
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jul 17, 2009 7:04:20 GMT
I was a bit surprised that the Football League didn't set up their own channel when ITV Digital collapsed and Freeview/TopupTV started up. That would have worked. And I think a Premier League channel might work if the majority of clubs backed it - but just a few clubs would not be enough. As you say, there would have to be equal air time (or close to it) for each club.
I suppose I'd be willing to pay £5 a month for that - BUT a lot would depend upon what deals they could do with Sky and ESPN to show clips. Goal and incident clips are needed to provide the "glue" to hold studio based and training ground stuff together.
EDIT - with so many people having digital recorders (eg. Sky +) these days, the channel could save money by actually buying unused time from an existing channel as it wouldn't really matter if broadcasts were in the middle of the night or early morning as fans could just record the content they wanted to see.
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Post by ronvelig on Jul 17, 2009 8:35:15 GMT
If the Premier League did start their own channel I don't think they could they cope with losing the publicity from other media channels
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