ITV Sport to Launch Aug 2007
LWTColchester
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My sources inform me that ITV news will stay on sky and cable and M & M will stay are freeview until August 2007 when ITV Sport will launch. Whilst M&M is on Sky it's programming budget will be a maximum of £300,00 per month.
ITV are still looking into whether ITV Sports will be free to air or subscription.
For those who doubt this -check out the stuff I have said before please.
ITV are still looking into whether ITV Sports will be free to air or subscription.
For those who doubt this -check out the stuff I have said before please.
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And fill it with ?
what will they be broadcasting? Wrestling? Amateur Boxing? Go Kart Racing? Dutch Eredivisie Football???
They have the CL & F1, but barely enough action to make a channel viable. Unless they are going to make another doomed bid for 2nd tier footie rights? With any luck the company will be bankrupt for good, with no changing company names to get a 2nd chance
(Itv Digital to ITV plc)
itv sport caused the downfall of itv digital.
A few prem matches ( If they were lucky enough to get some ) will be the type of Sunderland Vs West Brom.
And what else will they fil it with , Jesus Sky struggle to fill SS1 at times
ITV Digital didn't become ITV plc.
My sources tell me this thread is BS:p
No IT WAS HACKED TO DEATH!
A combination of both In my opinion
The people allowed and (cough) who used gold cards to watch premium channels on , On Digital / Itv digital and the massive amount paid for football league
Hi
You are surely not forgetting the massive number of people who viewed the premium football and film channels for a one of cost of £10 to purchase a gold card from a car boot stall and contributed didly squat in monthly fees to the ITV coffers really helped helped a lot .....
Also since being logged with Digital Spy and viewing for somewhat longer I will vouchsafe that LWT is well informed and usually correct in his posts. We shall await with interest to see if anything comes of this...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1590176,00.html
NTL and ITV join forces in move to break Sky's grip on Premiership
Dan Milmo, media business correspondent
Wednesday October 12, 2005
The Guardian
ITV and NTL have joined up to bid for the next round of Premier
League TV rights in an attempt to break BSkyB's exclusive grip on
top-flight football. The country's largest commercial terrestrial
broadcaster and the most powerful cable operator are willing to
offer at least £170m a year for half the games made available in the
next auction, for the 2007 to 2010 seasons.
The groups outlined their alliance in a letter seen by the Guardian,
which was yesterday sent to the chairmen of the league's 20
constituent clubs. The informal agreement is predicated on the
European Commission forcing through its demand - fiercely resisted
by the league - that no single broadcaster can win more than 50% of
the matches up for auction. The dispute between the EC and the
league is at a critical juncture, with both sides due to hold
meetings in Brussels next week.
Charles Allen, chief executive of ITV, and his NTL counterpart,
Simon Duffy, said in the joint letter that a games quota would not
destroy the value of a TV franchise that has poured billions of
pounds of BSkyB money into Premiership football. The groups said
they would ensure the minimum amount they paid for a 50% share of
the games would represent 50% of their current market value,
ensuring that a floor is set on the value of the rights. Under those
terms, ITV and NTL would pay £170m a year. BSkyB, the current rights
owner, pays about £340m a year as part of a £1.024bn three-year
exclusive contract to show 138 games a season. "As a means of
minimising the risk for the Premier League in changing the auction
structure, ITV and NTL would consider offering the FA Premier League
an upfront guarantee of at least 50% of the current rights fee in
return for 50% of the live matches," said the chief executives.
It is understood ITV and NTL would show the games on the free-to-air
and pay-TV platforms. The majority of games would appear on a new
subscription channel run by NTL, with the rest appearing on one of
ITV's four digital channels. NTL announced a $6bn (£3.3bn) takeover
of rival Telewest last week in a deal that will create a cable group
with 3.3 million pay-TV subscribers against BSkyB's 7.8 million.
ITV and NTL reiterated their argument that BSkyB does not pay
an "exclusivity premium" for the rights, because the majority of its
investment is covered by pub and club subscriptions. As a result,
more than 5 million Sky Sports subscribers make a disproportionate
contribution to BSkyB's profit margins by paying up to £42.50 a
month for access to Premiership matches, the letter added. James
Murdoch, chief executive of BSkyB, dismissed the claim last month in
a heated public exchange with Mr Allen.
The letter concludes by asking the chairmen to lobby the Premier
League to consider the 50% quota more seriously. The league intends
to auction the rights for the 2007 to 2010 seasons next spring.
"We think this is a fantastic opportunity for the Premier League and
its clubs and we are very keen to engage further with the FA Premier
League to take this forward," said the letter.
Ball watching
BSkyB has won every auction of live Premier League coverage,
outbidding rivals in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2003.
In the 2003 sale, the European commission attempted to ensure that
live coverage went to more than one broadcaster by demanding that
four packages of rights were sold instead of three. Despite the
intervention, BSkyB won all four packages in a £1bn deal.
The commission and the league agreed that the next auction would see
the live rights awarded to more than one broadcaster. However, the
league is resisting the commission's new demand that no more than
50% of the matches can be awarded to a single bidder.
If memory serves me right, I think the Football League clubs were one of the list of creditors and did not receive the remainder of the £315m ITV Digital contract. I think the clubs were owed about £90m.
I believe before ITV Digital folder, ITV put to the clubs to pay £50m for the remainder of the contract but the clubs refused.
I always think the Football League made a balls up. I think when the second Premiership contract was up for grabs from 1997 the Premier League offer the Football League a deal where if they joined forces, the football league would receive 25% of future Premiership TV moneys. 25% of 1bn is a lot more of what the Football League gets now!
the championship is shit
No - Sky have all the big sports tightly sewn up.