SKY charging additional fees for Premier League

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Couldn't find a thread on this. Heard it was coming, but £15 a match on top of my monthly subscription that is supposed to include Premier League football.... Just went to watch the Arsenal match to find an additional charge, they can go swivel. Happy to cut off my nose to spite my face, will sacrifice the golf and cancel subscription tomorrow.
 
need_my_wedge said:
Couldn't find a thread on this. Heard it was coming, but £15 a match on top of my monthly subscription that is supposed to include Premier League football.... Just went to watch the Arsenal match to find an additional charge, they can go swivel. Happy to cut off my nose to spite my face, will sacrifice the golf and cancel subscription tomorrow.
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Donated the £15 they wanted tonight to charity (as a lot of fans have been doing), wont be paying anymore on top. Clubs are mightily complicit in this, not just Sky/BT too
 
This PPV was proposed and voted for 19/1 by the PL clubs. Although sky are making some money, the majority is going to the clubs.

I'm against PPV's generally but I understand clubs want some income. My biggest gripe is the KO times are all over the place.

Usually 5 games are shown weekly Live on Sky so there's the disruption to deal with. There's no reason for the other games to all kick off at 3pm Saturday where possible.
 
Stuart_C said:
This PPV was proposed and voted for 19/1 by the PL clubs. Although sky are making some money, the majority is going to the clubs.

I'm against PPV's generally but I understand clubs want some income. My biggest gripe is the KO times are all over the place.

Usually 5 games are shown weekly Live on Sky so there's the disruption to deal with. There's no reason for the other games to all kick off at 3pm Saturday where possible.
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yep hats off to Leicester, the only club who have enough morals to care about their fans rather than want to grab more money

clubs claiming they are suffering doesnt wash when they have multi billionaire foreign owners and are happy to spend another £1bn in the tfr window (whilst making other staff redundant in Arsenals case!)

edit: and thats without discussing the various power grabs they keep proposing
 
As for Sky, you are still getting the same number of games you were always getting for your money, no more no less.
The ppv games are in addition, and so outside your contract with Sky.
To bin off your Sky subscription because you are not getting extra 'free' games is daft.
That said, the prem, Sky, BT et al should have set the price below a 5er. Their competition on this is free illegal streaming, or honest folk saying stuff that at 15, I will give it to more deserving causes.
 
The extra games are ones we were not expecting to see. They are bonus games for tv. If they had taken them from the usual roster then I'd be unhappy but they haven't.

I won't pay for any of these, I see enough but it doesn't bother me that they are happening.
 
I don't realise this was an extra game, not sure how you get that info. But thought SKY paid a gazillion pounds to the PL to stream matches. Still think it time to review package
 
As already said, a fiver a game or maybe £15 for the whole weeks ppv games would have tempted a lot more into coughing up hard earned money.
Poor decision all round, quite how they thought it would be a winner is beyond me.
 
Every PPV game is extra on top of the contracted Sky/BT sport package

Believe the clubs initially wanted them to be only at 3pm on the Saturday. I suspect they might have got a few more watching if they did that
 
Beezerk said:
As already said, a fiver a game or maybe £15 for the whole weeks ppv games would have tempted a lot more into coughing up hard earned money.
Poor decision all round, quite how they thought it would be a winner is beyond me.
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the logical answer would be a season ticket for while fans arent able to attend games (ideally 3pm on a saturday)

obviously they were clever in that they covered every game for a month or so, then when they reviewed this reverted to the games they would normally show and decided to try and money grab for the rest
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Every PPV game is extra on top of the contracted Sky/BT sport package

Believe the clubs initially wanted them to be only at 3pm on the Saturday. I suspect they might have got a few more watching if they did that
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whereas theyve actually gone for the opposite and done the extremes as well, one friday night one sunday night one monday night!
 
These are just extra games. No big deal at all. £15 is much less than a ticket would be which is the only other way you would see this game (normally)

Imo should be no more than £10 with half of the money going to lower league clubs to help them right now
 
pauljames87 said:
These are just extra games. No big deal at all. £15 is much less than a ticket would be which is the only other way you would see this game (normally)

Imo should be no more than £10 with half of the money going to lower league clubs to help them right now
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No big deal to you, but to many it is a huge deal. These are die hard fans who have lost jobs/no income/60% furlough etc expected to pay £15 for this.

Whilst yes its cheaper than a match ticket, its really not the same product. Its soulless and almost turgid at times.
 
Stuart_C said:
No big deal to you, but to many it is a huge deal. These are die hard fans who have lost jobs/no income/60% furlough etc expected to pay £15 for this.

Whilst yes its cheaper than a match ticket, its really not the same product. Its soulless and almost turgid at times.
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Yet it's a choice isn't it? You don't have to watch it. It wouldn't be free otherwise. They just put the football on free over the summer to keep our moral up in lockdown.

Choice is paid for or no games really?

Everything is behind a pay wall anyways in sky and bt so people will be dropping these if cash is tight which is understandable.
 
Was chatting about this yesterday. With sky and BT refusing to release figures, I think it’s fair to assume that the uptake hasn’t been massive.

The cynic in me thinks that when the broadcasters get their next round of picks they might pick Saints V West Brom etc and leave the Liverpool v UTD as pay per view.....

As to the costs, I think a season ticket idea should be the way to go. That being said, how many people use a mates Netflix/prime/sky login. They probably factor that they in when wanting a decent return.
 
Papas1982 said:
Was chatting about this yesterday. With sky and BT refusing to release figures, I think it’s fair to assume that the uptake hasn’t been massive.

The cynic in me thinks that when the broadcasters get their next round of picks they might pick Saints V West Brom etc and leave the Liverpool v UTD as pay per view.....

As to the costs, I think a season ticket idea should be the way to go. That being said, how many people use a mates Netflix/prime/sky login. They probably factor that they in when wanting a decent return.
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If they start to cherry pick the better games on to PPV then that’s a sure fire way too lose subscriptions.

If they did do a season ticket there would be ways to stop other “devices” watching it - would be the best way for it to work.
 
I think all club season ticket holders should be given individual code that gives them free access to all their teams televised games.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
If they start to cherry pick the better games on to PPV then that’s a sure fire way too lose subscriptions.

If they did do a season ticket there would be ways to stop other “devices” watching it - would be the best way for it to work.
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Whilst they may (not all subscribe to footy) lose their £30 a month subscribers. They could sweep up on people paying £15 per game. People are also fickle. When things return to the norm people would sign up again for the big games. I’m not saying it would be right if they did it, just that it would surprise me.

As to the stopping of sharing devices, I think they recently added box office to sky, but not sure if it is shareable yet atm tbh.
 
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