New TV deal - Eleven Sports to bid?

[3pm]

This all sounds a bit more promising for the next deal regardless of who wins the bid.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6288497/Eleven-Sports-set-challenge-rights-live-Scottish-football.html

[bingo70]

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This all sounds a bit more promising for the next deal regardless of who wins the bid.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6288497/Eleven-Sports-set-challenge-rights-live-Scottish-football.html

Doncaster will soon talk them out of it 😉

[The_Exile]

Newcomers Eleven Sports are poised to go head-to-head with BT Sport and Sky for the rights to show live Scottish football.The SPFL are inviting broadcasters to bid for the biggest television deal in Scottish football history this month.BT Sport and Sky Sports currently pay around £21million a year to share 60 SPFL league games and both now want to go it alone.

However, Premiership chairmen hope competition from Eleven Sports will see clubs double their money through a £40m-a-year deal when the current agreement ends in 2020.Founded by Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizziani, Eleven has risen to prominence this year by winning exclusive rights to show Serie A, La Liga and the US PGA Championship in the United Kingdom and Ireland.And a source close to the broadcaster told Sportsmail they would not rule out a bid for the rights to the SPFL, branding it an 'interesting property'.Amazon and Facebook have also held preliminary discussions with league chief executive Neil Doncaster.And Premiership clubs hope to tie-up a new contract by April next year when the broadcast giants divert their attentions to a new Champions League broadcasting deal.The previous record broadcasting deal for Scottish football remains a £31m-a-year contract signed with Setanta a decade ago.BT Sport and Sky Sports have already wined and dined SPFL club chairmen in London in a quest to show their commitment to the game north of the border.

And Eleven Sports, which operates as a streaming platform, are keen to confirm their status as growing players in the British market despite ruffling feathers within the Football Association and SFA by breaching a long-standing agreement to keep live football off the nation's screens between 2.45pm and 5.15pm on a Saturday.The broadcaster has agreed to stop broadcasting La Liga games 'for the time being,' but vowed to challenge the ruling in court.In a statement Eleven said: 'The blackout is one of the biggest generators of piracy in the UK. These games are very easily accessed on illegal sites online and it is naive to think that fans do not watch them because they are not shown on legitimate platforms, except betting sites. It is irresponsible to leave the market in the hands of criminals.'

[Diclonius]

Anyone but Sky Sports please. Prefer if BT Sport got exclusive rights.

[Bishop Hibee]

While I'm happy if Eleven Sports drives up the bidding, I hope they don't win the contract. Their existing coverage isn't available on any TV platform at present. I think BTSport will pull out all the stops to get exclusive coverage. They'd better as if they lost the rights I'd be cancelling the sport I get via Virgin Media.

[Billy Whizz]

Another competitor can drive up our TV deal, but the fans will have to pay another subscription

[Bishop Hibee]

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Another competitor can drive up our TV deal, but the fans will have to pay another subscription

Eleven Sports currently show some games free-to-air via Facebook but you have to pay a subscription to get the full package.

[cabbageandribs1875]

BT Sport and Sky Sports have already wined and dined SPFL club chairmen in London in a quest to show their commitment to the game north of the border.



yup, they're that commited they couldn't get off of their fat erkys to wine and dine in the country where the games actually take place


take the eleven sports deal :)

[heid the baw]

Eleven sports is a Setanta deal 2 in the making.

[Godsahibby]

Watched some of the Spanish games this season and the PGA Golf earlier in the year was pretty impressed. Would be delighted if it moved away from Sly. BT Sports or Eleven would be good.

[Brummie_Hibs]

£39M between 2 teams, £1M distributed to the rest.

[Eyrie]

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Another competitor can drive up our TV deal, but the fans will have to pay another subscription

That was my take on the headline as well.

I watch a range of sports, which already means having to pay for Sky, BT and NFL Gamepass. The thought of adding a fourth subscription has so far put me off Premier Sports, so a fifth with Eleven is a non-starter.

[R'Albin]

We should be looking for more than 40 million IMO. Our deal was crap years ago and given how the market has inflated and our game has improved - I reckon we are worth more.

[A Hi-Bee]

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We should be looking for more than 40 million IMO. Our deal was crap years ago and given how the market has inflated and our game has improved - I reckon we are worth more.

Just keep donkey doncaster away from and put our Rod onto them.

[Jack Hackett]

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We should be looking for more than 40 million IMO. Our deal was crap years ago and given how the market has inflated and our game has improved - I reckon we are worth more.

The problem lies with the ignorance of the english effwits leaving comments on that article. You can practically guarantee that not one of them has actually watched one of our games

[theonlywayisup]

Wonder they will share out the money? The English Premier League is as follows for 2017/18 season.

The 2017/18 Premier League earnings have been announced and, despite claiming the title, newly crowned champions Manchester City haven’t come out on top.The country’s top 20 teams split a pot of £2.42 BILLION this season, with the biggest clubs earning just under £150m each while the bottom feeders settled for a measly £94m.

THE FIGURES ARE BROKEN DOWN AS FOLLOWS:

Each club is ranked by the total payment they received – a number that is made up of merit money, facility fees, domestic TV, overseas TV and central commercialisation.

Merit money is very simple as it is based solely on each club’s finishing position in the league.

Bottom of the table West Brom received £1,931,268 in merit money, while every other club received an extra £1,931,268 for every position higher they finished.

Second bottom Stoke received £3,862,536 (2 x £1,931,268), third bottom Swansea received £5,793,804 (3 x £1,931,268) and so on.

Facility fees are based on how many of each club's games were selected and aired on live TV.

To even things out, every side gets a guaranteed £12,312,666, even if fewer than ten of their games were chosen for live TV. The rest get an extra £1,129,879 for each game over ten.

For example, Huddersfield had under ten matches on live TV and so collected the £12,312,666, however Manchester United ended up with £32,650,495 as they had an extra 18 matches shown live.

Domestic TV, overseas TV and central commercialisation numbers are all equal for each club. All 20 sides receive £34,812,558 for domestic TV income, £40,771,108 for overseas TV income and £4,838,892 for central commercialisation (such as sponsors).

[Michael]

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Eleven sports is a Setanta deal 2 in the making.

Probably, but even just having them in the mix should help the price we get.

[The Spaceman]

Hope this starts a bidding war, Sky lose miserably and BT Sports come out on top. BT have been brilliant for raising the profile of our game. They make a real effort to analyse and learn the game up here, as well as giving the credit our game deserves. We are a mere filler for Sky and for that they can completely **** off.

[cleanyman]

I love BT

Long may their coverage continue

[04Sauzee]

Not a fan of Sky and much prefer the BT coverage. I would think though that if Sky were to win the bidding they would have to give the Scottish game more coverage and and more credit than they currently do.

[Montford]

SKY just buy Scottish football to keep it in the shadows and mitigate any competition to the EPL... when was the last time they showed a 2pm or 4pm game?

[DavieRoy]

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Hope this starts a bidding war, Sky lose miserably and BT Sports come out on top. BT have been brilliant for raising the profile of our game. They make a real effort to analyse and learn the game up here, as well as giving the credit our game deserves. We are a mere filler for Sky and for that they can completely **** off.

I have not seen one bit of Scottish football on BT this week and nothing is scheduled. Sky and BBC have had material on. Even on social media, BT have had nothing. Nothing about Jim McIntyre at Dundee or Hearts injury situation. I saw interviews with McIntyre and Levein on BBC and Sky. Just an example of perception that BT give the game bigger profile is a myth to me. Their coverage on a matchday is good but they do nothing at any other time. If they don’t have a live game, they don’t cover anything. They would have to massively increase their coverage daily to get to Sky and BBC output.

Scottish football may get saturated on Sky but it doesn’t mean they don’t do anything and BBC have plenty on radio.

If BT or ElevenSports get it, they will have to pay more as the advertising revenue will drop as they don’t have the exposure that BBC or Sky do.

[CMurdoch]

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We should be looking for more than 40 million IMO. Our deal was crap years ago and given how the market has inflated and our game has improved - I reckon we are worth more.

A few months ago I checked the deals that the leagues of countries of similar size to ours were getting and formed the opinion that we should be going for £40 million a season from the next deal. We are probably worth more but doubling the present deal would be a great start and see us catching up on the likes of the Scandinavian countries. Don't know how much of the extra money we would see at Hibs but it would be a massive help in helping us to compete in Europe again against the likes of Molde whose Norwegian league get £35 million a season TV rights.

The TV deal that got me was the £385 million a year Turkish football gets!!!
20 times what we get. No wonder they kick our asses in Europe.

[Dashing Bob S]

I have every confidence in the muppets who run Scottish football, despite the favorable circumstances, to able to fashion an uninspiring deal from this, and if they perform as we know they can, a totally disastrous one.

[DavieRoy]

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I have every confidence in the muppets who run Scottish football, despite the favorable circumstances, to able to fashion an uninspiring deal from this, and if they perform as we know they can, a totally disastrous one.

They did 10 years ago when conditions were good. Setanta offered £35 million per season and Sky offered £32.5 million, they went with Setanta, didn’t do their due diligence and look where we are.

[CMurdoch]

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They did 10 years ago when conditions were good. Setanta offered £35 million per season and Sky offered £32.5 million, they went with Setanta, didn’t do their due diligence and look where we are.

That was a £130 million **** up!
Breathtaking

[wallpaperman]

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The TV deal that got me was the £385 million a year Turkish football gets!!!
20 times what we get. No wonder they kick our asses in Europe.

Sounds a lot but it's not really disproportionate to the size of the country. Turkey's population is bigger than the UK i think, well over 70 million, that's
a lot of consumers for advertisers.

We should be aiming for the Norway type deal, that would be completely reasonable.

[Northernhibee]

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We should be looking for more than 40 million IMO. Our deal was crap years ago and given how the market has inflated and our game has improved - I reckon we are worth more.

We’re only worth what people are willing to pay, no way we’d get £40m.

[Tinribs]

Personally I hope Amazon get the rights, it would give me something to watch on the prime video that I never use.

[CropleyWasGod]

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Personally I hope Amazon get the rights, it would give me something to watch on the prime video that I never use.

Personally, I hope that the Amazon drones rebel and shoot the **** out of their distribution centres.

But that's the effect of watching too much Black Mirror

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