Golf on TV (paying for it)

[Bratty]

I've never paid extra for telly.
I've got my head in the sand over this - I will quite freely admit.
Four channels in 1995 was enough.
I never felt I was missing out on any major sporting event back then.
All changes since then have been done for businesses to make money.
We have paid that money.
No overriding improvement of the service to the consumer has ensued.

But how are you able to rewatch all the Voyager episodes to remember the EMH so fondly? Let me guess, you have them all on VHS?

 

[BiMGuy]

I pay £50 a year for it so it's not free

Doesn’t make it legal.

 

[Bobthesock]

Doesn’t make it legal.

My conscience can cope with it thanks

 

[IanM]

No overriding improvement of the service to the consumer has ensued.

Other than wall to wall golf coverage 4 days a week. Lots of cricket and a football

 

[KenL]

With Sky you can opt for golf only. I recently ditched it. Think it was £17 per month.
Might be worth trying to get a deal on that.

 

[Deleted member 31467]

Doesn’t make it legal.

You must be a bundle of laughs at parties.

 

[Deleted member 31467]

get a firestick and IPTV

This. I bought a lifetime subscription, has the odd tantrum but generally it's pretty good.

 

[Voyager EMH]

That statement is absolute tosh.

I can watch golf every day if I want. PGA tour, DP, LPGA, there's coverage every week.
Same with cricket, all tests are on TV, not just England.
Multiple football matches every week, from all major leagues in Europe.
Etc etc.
In summary: massive amount of choice.

Terrestial TV has never offered that.

True that it didn't.
But it might have by now, if it had been given the chance or allowed to.
Things would have been very different, but we'll simply never know how great things might have been.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

True that it didn't.
But it might have by now, if it had been given the chance or allowed to.
Things would have been very different, but we'll simply never know how great things might have been.

No chance it would offered the same for one single reason - cost

There is no way that terrestrial Telly could have offered the same level of choice that subscription service offers because of the cost to provide those services

Also bandwidth as well

 

[Voyager EMH]

No chance it would offered the same for one single reason - cost

There is no way that terrestrial Telly could have offered the same level of choice that subscription service offers because of the cost to provide those services

Also bandwidth as well

Government subsidy for a public service, joint private and public finance, I'm sure that if there was enough public opinion and public support it could have happened somehow.

 

[HPIMG]

I pay £50 a year for it so it's not free

Few guys I golf with have been talking about them seem great but think you need really good internet?

 

[Voyager EMH]

Other than wall to wall golf coverage 4 days a week. Lots of cricket and a football

A few cameras and a couple of commentators.
All that was ever needed was permission to put them there.
Could have happened if public interest and support could have driven things rather than money men and profiteers.

 

[Voyager EMH]

But how are you able to rewatch all the Voyager episodes to remember the EMH so fondly? Let me guess, you have them all on VHS?

They are simply in my memory bank, as after all, I was there!
Time to change my image.

 

[Bobthesock]

Few guys I golf with have been talking about them seem great but think you need really good internet?

You need decent internet nothing spectacular. Think I'm about 40mb and thats plenty

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Government subsidy for a public service, joint private and public finance, I'm sure that if there was enough public opinion and public support it could have happened somehow.

Sorry but I don’t think you have the first clue about how much it costs to put on all the sport sky and the other subscribers. There is zero chance any terrestrial channel could do the same

Just to highlight that the Premier League alone costs Sky over £1.1bn per year

Sky pays around £100mil alone just for The Open

Add in all the other sports and that cost is through the roof

Then add in the production costs and there is no way on this earth a terrestrial channel could afford it

 

[IanM]

A few cameras and a couple of commentators.
All that was ever needed was permission to put them there.
Could have happened if public interest and support could have driven things rather than money men and profiteers.

Bbc and Independents can't dedicate that amount of time to ANY one subject.

Bbc used to cover 3 or 4 events a year. Now they are all on.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Sorry but I don’t think you have the first clue about how much it costs to put on all the sport sky and the other subscribers. There is zero chance any terrestrial channel could do the same

Just to highlight that the Premier League alone costs Sky over £1.1bn per year

Sky pays around £100mil alone just for The Open

Add in all the other sports and that cost is through the roof

Then add in the production costs and there is no way on this earth a terrestrial channel could afford it

We pay the costs ultimately.
We could do so without so much going to profiteering business by paying that money to a business that has our interests as its core raison d'etre.
By paying that money to a publicly owned business, that business would be accountable to us, the tax payers and voters.
We pay the money - what we get right now is a poor deal.
Comparisons with 30 years ago are irrelevant.
We missed the trick - and now it is rubbish.
We can't go back or ever get what we could have or should have had.
It could have been better.
But we'll never really know, we can only speculate.
No one is right and no one is wrong here.
Its an endless argument.
I just believe telly could have turned out much better for us.
I don't believe that what we have now is the best possible outcome there ever could have been.

 

[Mel Smooth]

Live streams from all the par 3's on the LIVgolf+ app all weekend guys, as well as the normal broadcast.

Get yersens signed up if you haven't already.

 

[sunshine]

Government subsidy for a public service, joint private and public finance, I'm sure that if there was enough public opinion and public support it could have happened somehow.

Yeah but there isn’t enough public support to produce wall to wall golf coverage every week for free. It’s a niche market and so the only way it can be produced is by charging the people who want it.

 

[evemccc]

I've never paid extra for telly.
I've got my head in the sand over this - I will quite freely admit.
Four channels in 1995 was enough.
I never felt I was missing out on any major sporting event back then.
All changes since then have been done for businesses to make money.
We have paid that money.
No overriding improvement of the service to the consumer has ensued.