Sky Sports
Interesting to read a run down of how many times each club has featured on Sky Sports this season to date. I subscribed for a couple years way back about 20 years ago but quickly realised what a total waste of money it was.
1 - Celtic 16
2 - Rangers 13
3 - Aberdeen 6
4 - Hearts 4
5 - Ross County 4
6 - St Mirren 4
7 - Kilmarnock 3
8 - Livingston 3
9 - Motherwell 3
10 - St Johnstone 3
11 - Hibs 2
12 - Dundee 1
Just an outlet to broadcast Old Firm away games.
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04-03-2024 06:58 PM #1
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04-03-2024 07:01 PM #2
Yepp. That’s literally all it is.
How many non old firm games have featured this season?"...when Hibs won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
Sir Alex Ferguson
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05-03-2024 06:23 AM #4
1st match - 25th December 1875,
I presume by quite a few years the oldest top flight football derby on the planet.
It's 2024! and by legal means if you don't get a ticket for Easter road or Tynecastle.
your only option is listen to it on the radio, ( wi some jambo fud) lol
Nice one sky, f'n bell ends.Last edited by seanshow; 05-03-2024 at 06:25 AM.
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05-03-2024 08:14 AM #6
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04-03-2024 07:33 PM #8
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I wonder how many viewers they got for the Livi/M'well game the night of the derby
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04-03-2024 10:49 PM #9
A wise yin once said: “The revolution will not be televised”
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05-03-2024 06:06 AM #11
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They are a cancer on our gane
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05-03-2024 05:39 PM #13
The Edinburgh Derby has a huge appeal, and maybe not always for the right reasons as we saw the other night, but no one can deny it’s a powder keg fixture, with big away crowds in attendance and an occasion that’s tense, nervy and usually with plenty controversy. I don’t watch much football on TV but this is the type of fixture that would draw me in.
Any TV deal that decides such matches to be not worthy of coverage is obviously a hugely flawed one. If there is a genuine will to promote our game in Scotland and show that there’s more to Scottish football than the Old Firm, yet repeatedly ignore a box office fixture, then those in office are shirking their responsibilities towards the greater good of the game.
It’s more or less an admission that they’re not really interested in anyone apart from the Old Firm.
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05-03-2024 06:55 AM #14
Not sticking up for Sky here but the clubs didn’t help the situation with the package they agreed with Sky, which limits the number of games per ground each season.
Sky will naturally want the biggest audience so they focus on Rangers and Celtic away each week, for the top teams that is 4 games at home, which i think is the limit (or close to the limit).
The clubs did that to protect their matchday income, I’m not sure by how much the attendance decrease if the game is on TV but i guess they must to enough of a degree that clubs don’t want the cameras there all the time.
It feels like we’re massively missing a trick though - each club’s season has its own story that their fans will want to follow, and to have camera black outs for games like the Derby is such a massive own goal for the league and the clubs - and the broadcaster, themselves who end up having to show a game which has extraordinarily low appeal to those outside of the two clubs’ own supporters.
The clubs should be pushing for better when the deal is next up and should be looking for a broadcasting partner than can at the very least stream every game across the league so people have the choice.
For many folk, away games are a struggle but things like IPTV have been a Godsend as it means they can watch the games, but they have to break the law to do it, they pay money that ends to who knows where, with no tax paid on it etc and they have to hope the stream works well enough or the sound matches the picture and so on.
Whereas we could have an agreement where a reasonable subscription gets you the games you want to see in broadcast quality, a reliable picture, where the club benefits from the income. Those that go to games will still go to games, it’s a distant second best watching the game at home to going to the game, and plenty folk will still use Firesticks to watch illegally, but also plenty folk prefer not to break the law to watch football, don’t begrudge a reasonably priced offering- especially if the club benefits.
It’s a miles better option than Old Firm TV which is basically what we’ve got now.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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05-03-2024 07:09 AM #16
Sky are a disgrace in the way that they treat our game: next to no marketing, careless mistakes (i.e. have the Dundee Utd badge on screen when talking about Dundee etc). It's as if the SPFL are a chore for them.
However, from my purely selfish perspective as a match going supporter; I prefer that we've not been on TV very often this season so the kick off times haven't been pissed about with.PERSEVERE
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05-03-2024 07:29 AM #17
Seems there is 700K Sky sports subscribers in Scotland, that is a lot of money sky gets for a crap service.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFoo...e_is_shocking/
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Sky must know toughly the numbers watching illegally. As long as it means viewers for advertising I’m imagining that’s the key thing."We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
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05-03-2024 07:03 AM #20
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Could they not scrap the 4 games per ground per season rule and just say that at least 20 or 25% of games shown must be non OF?
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I do think it's incredibly short sighted from both the broadcasters and the league negotiating the deal, though. You want the game to grow, it benefits everyone and there are some great games in the league - different standard from the Premiership in England, granted, but you only need to look at results this weekend to see some great stories, and all they showed was Hearts v Celtic.
The way to grow the game is to showcase it properly, we're miles off that at the moment and that's on the clubs as much as it's on the broadcasters.
Putting the games on TV won't stop the folk who go to games going to them, in fact over time I reckon it would grow attendances because people get to see what they're missing. The Premiership in England certainly doesn't seem to be lacking bums on seats.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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05-03-2024 08:17 AM #23
Matty nailed it. We need a broadcast PARTNER. Someone prepared and willing to invest the time and content to our clubs.
I'm not sure if that's solely Doncaster responsibility but there needs to be far greater scope when we seek our next deal
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If there is, I'd imagine we'll go with them next time around. If not, we'll take what Sky offers and nothing will change.
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Yesterday 06:45 PM #25
Just to update the figures, and we are now joint bottom with Dundee in the general interest outwith the Old Firm for Sky table.
Must be the most imbalanced TV deal in Europe by some distance.
I wouldn’t be wasting any money to include any TV Studio facilities that would only be used a couple of times a season in future development plans. I’d remove the thing that’s there at present and put the space to better use and just let them broadcast pitchside.
Celtic 19
Rangers 16
Aberdeen 6
Ross County 5
St.Mirren 5
Hearts 4
Livingston 4
Kilmarnock 3
Motherwell 3
St.Johnstone 3
Dundee 2
Hibs 2
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I cancelled my Old Firm TV subscription last year and won’t be adding it back in anytime soon
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05-03-2024 01:09 PM #30
I sent in a complaint to Sky about this suggest that everyone on here does as well. I threatened to cancel my Sky Sports if they do not rectify this issue.
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