First of all folks, I don't want this to sound like electioneering and I have just spent the last 10 minutes trying to change my "YES" avatar to a Hibs one without fail (never know how to change the avatar on here).
I seen recently that Scottish football received 1M for the season compared to £55M for England and Wales from the BBC per year and I never realised that until the SNP decided to make it an issue (we have 9% of the population and only receive 1.5% of UK BBC funding).
I send most of my working life with a good lad from County Durham and was discussing this with him last week. He said it was right that Scotland only received a pittance because Scottish football is Tom Kite.
I think the opposite - Scottish football is Tom Kite because we only receive a pittance.
Why the heck do we put up with this???
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11-04-2015 09:45 PM #1
Why does Scottish football only receive 1M from BBC?
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11-04-2015 09:50 PM #2
Because it invests heavily in keeping pedo's who work within the BBC out of jail.
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11-04-2015 09:53 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The sooner the better. Level playing field and as far as I'm concerned there is just too much football on the telly.
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11-04-2015 09:58 PM #4
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11-04-2015 10:08 PM #6
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I assume that while match of the day is on across the whole of the UK, Sportscene is only on in Scotland. I'd also assume that any highlights of Scottish games that are available online are hardly ever watched south of the border.
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11-04-2015 10:11 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There just isn't the demand for scottish football South of the border unless it's an old firm game. I'm willing to bet the Derby doesnt pull many punters in England.
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11-04-2015 10:26 PM #9
As the OP said, Scottish football is Tom Kite partly due to a lack of TV money. That welt Doncaster really made a mess of things for our game here by failing to get top level league sponsorship too. And he was completely unfazed by his failure.
I used to quite respect the BBC, they had good quality news usually well written, and quite good sports journos too. I now never watch any of their content, other than online news. We get the English Premier forced down our throats, whether we want it or not, and pish like Open All Mics for the rest of the home nations.
Whatever happened to their prime directive of 'Public Service Broadcasting'? It seems that if it doesn't coin in money, they don't give a monkeys for it. Or us.
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11-04-2015 10:41 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Agree. scottish football is utter pish compared to the English leagues.
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11-04-2015 10:57 PM #11
Because the SFA are god awful when it comes to adding value to our game. Nothing to do with the BBC at all despite what some conspiracy theorists would like you to know, our game is just run by idiots who have stripped all value from the product with decades of mismanagement.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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12-04-2015 01:00 AM #13
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Mainstream channels will generally value what they broadcast on the number of people who watch a particular show.
If there was a huge demand for gardening shows, then the people involved in gardening shows could expect their value to increase because of the demand for their services.
Sadly outside of Scotland, there are not a huge number of people threatening to cancel their subscriptions because Scottisg Fitba is not shown....poor sad buggers like us notwithstanding.
Just as in the Uk I don' think many crave live telecasts from the Danish league.
Scottish fitba is viewed, as the OP stated, as being Tom Kite
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12-04-2015 01:10 AM #14
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12-04-2015 01:34 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-04-2015 02:05 AM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If we are ever going to sell the product again we need to turn tv and radio down. Basically if you are not there you don't see it. Print media is dead so you neither need to give reporters access to the product to help them sell papers. Who gives a stuff if the BBC and the Daily Record put out reports. They can often be inaccurate so, get to the match and see it yourself or complain about the days you used to be able to watch it all from a couch..... All those fans that can't get to games due to geography. There would still be sites like these as well as Hibs TV. They're going to record it anyway for training purposes so any broadcasting rights belong solely to the club. Watching football 3 continents away is a privilege not a right.....
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12-04-2015 02:13 AM #17
Bidding and payment for rights will be done within BBC Scotland which is responsible for its own budget. Sportscene doesn't get shown outside of Scotland. The sad reality is that outside of two Glasgow sides, even within Scotland, people just do not watch football in the sort of numbers that would attract more broadcasting money.
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12-04-2015 05:53 AM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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12-04-2015 06:53 AM #19
The other way of looking at it is see the great deal the publicly funded BBC managed to get securing Scottish Football rights. Allowing more money to be spent in regional access channels like ALBA.
BTW Livi v Hibs live on Alba on the 22nd.
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12-04-2015 07:00 AM #20
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The BBC bid the highest amount so won the rights. No one is interested in Scottish football ffs there people on here that aren't interested in paying to watch Hibs. How much do the BBC pay for football in Wales and Northern Ireland ? I bet it's less than in scotland
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12-04-2015 07:12 AM #21
To me the biggest mistake was going with Setanta, who offered more than Sky, but a risk assesment had not been done. If I rememember correctly Sky had bid what we previously had. Soon as Setanta went tits up, Sky could pay what they wanted, and the BBC were the same.
There is also no brand or demand for Scottish football outside Scotland, living down South it is very passive as to our game, apart from Celtic and Rangers.
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And of course part of the reason our league is 'pish' compared to England is the massive, amd still growing, disparity in TV revenue.
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12-04-2015 08:42 AM #25
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Is it not SKY or BT Sports we should really be moaning about? It's them that show the live games and I guess pay the vast majority of TV money. BBC have only been showing highlights and recently a few games on ALBA for years.
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12-04-2015 08:49 AM #27
What annoys me most is the lowest leagues in England get better coverage than the top league in Scotland. A large problem is presentation. If there's only 1or 2 camea angles, if the play isn't analysed in detail, and if the presenters struggle to put 2 words together, it makes the game look rubbish. If the game looks rubbish, fewer people will watch.
And the reverse is also true. There are enough games that are as exciting as any in the world, we're just selling ourselves short.
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If it's Hibs then I'm usually at the game. If there's a TV game I really want to watch I'll go to the pub. Thats twice a month max so it still works out cheaper than paying for Sky Sports.
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