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There's a story in the Mail* tomorrow about the EFL's next TV deal which goes on the block shortly.
*As it's the Mail, they'll have picked out the most extreme scenarios and extrapolated them out into the most outlandish possibilities under their editorial policy of every story should make the reader afraid, angry, or preferably both, but still...
The good news is that new players in the market such as Viaplay and DAZN, as well as BT becoming part of the wealthy Warner Bros Discovery group, means there is competition for the EFL rights this time, which will drive up the price, as opposed to last time where Shaun Harvey took it upon himself to just hand the whole thing over to Sky for five years. They reckon the fee will go past £200m this time, doubling our TV revenues.
However, some of the things we're going to trade for that...
All the fixtures across the three divisions have been divided into 20 packages. In short, every single EFL game will be available to buy.
They will attempt to override ban on televising 3pm Saturday games, however the Premier League is likely to object to this. The EFL can force an override because the ban only applies when 50%+ of the Football League games are taking place at 3pm on a Saturday, so if the EFL moves 60% of its fixtures to, say, Sunday, the ban would then not apply anyway. Every weekend would basically look like the FA Cup Third Round, with the whole programme cut up in groups of half a dozen fixtures into a dozen kick off times across Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon.
They could well sell these 20 packages across multiple broadcasters, so you may need a Sky, BT, Viaplay, DAZN subscription to watch QPR games.
In short, you think we get a lot of fixtures pissed about with now, just wait...
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 10:25 - Mar 30 by Northernr
Couple of mates and I were chatting about this yesterday - has there ever been an actual study or survey done, at any level, of exactly how many people would stay home if there was a TV game at 3pm?
When I was younger we'd go to Scunny or Grimsby on the Saturdays I couldn't get to QPR and it was really noticeable the number of people there in Man UTd or Liverpool gear, and big reactions to their scores when the half time scores were read out.
Back then I thought if you had Man Utd on TV at 3pm there'd be no fcker there at all. But TV football at that point was basically Saturday lunchtime, one or two on Sunday and Monday night. Now it's just blanket, and you can stream the 3pm games anyway, so I'm less sure.
I'd be interested to know if you surveyed the whole crowd at somewhere like Accrington - would you still be here today if Man Utd were on TV - what the answer would actually be.
Not exactly scientific and i realise a lot of effort goes into promoting non-league day that wouldn't happen every other weekend but;
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 13:41 - Mar 30 with 2779 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 13:41 - Mar 30 by terryb
Surely that increase is due to regular live football spectators attending rather than the television audience?
It is just a difference of which club they went to watch.
I was thinking that it shows that when "big" league clubs aren't playing a lot of people head to their local non-league/lower league teams. Non-league day is a non-scientific way of looking at fan behaviour during a 3pm blackout.
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:12 - Mar 30 with 2663 views
I guess whichever way we look at it, I'd like to think we can all agree that the current deal negotiated by Shaun Harvey (I think) was too little for too long, and the whole Football League hasn't benefitted that much from it.
A new broadcaster, with a sole focus on the EFL and all of the rich potential that it offers, may not be a bad thing.
Football in this country has bent over backwards for Sky Sports for too long.
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:17 - Mar 30 with 2652 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:12 - Mar 30 by 89_50
I guess whichever way we look at it, I'd like to think we can all agree that the current deal negotiated by Shaun Harvey (I think) was too little for too long, and the whole Football League hasn't benefitted that much from it.
A new broadcaster, with a sole focus on the EFL and all of the rich potential that it offers, may not be a bad thing.
Football in this country has bent over backwards for Sky Sports for too long.
You think Harvey's deal was typically fcking cackhanded - Neil Doncaster has signed the SPL up to their Sky deal until 2029!!! It's worth £150m over four years - or £3.125m per club per season. Viaplay, Dazn, Apple, Amazon, Discovery... not for us mate, every Celtic and Rangers fixture at 1130am in the morning on Sky Sports Distant for us ta.
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:32 - Mar 30 with 2592 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 13:03 - Feb 27 by LazyFan
QPR+ will be reduced to what they call "Dark Markets".
Countries like Tonga, where there is, of course millions of well known QPR fans!
As an example list here was the list for the Blackburn game:
This will mean the death of QPR+ as after a while they will realise there is no point.
Available in North Korea!
I can't wait to learn what Pyongyang Hoop's favourite cheese is
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 15:16 - Mar 30 with 2500 views
How does everyone feel about binning off the 3pm blackouts? Is it an out of date bit of legislation that no longer serves its purpose or is it still important for lower league teams in order to get bums on seats at grounds?
I think the blackout should be scrapped and all games at 3pm
Would be much easier for fans who go to away games to get the cheapest trains etc
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 18:18 - Mar 30 with 2308 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 17:49 - Mar 30 by Rangersw12
I think the blackout should be scrapped and all games at 3pm
Would be much easier for fans who go to away games to get the cheapest trains etc
I'm coming round to the idea that if they don't drop the 'blackout' (which isn't even a blackout anyway because of the streaming now) then it's going to kill the thing you're trying to protect. If you put every single EFL game on the table for a broadcaster to buy and broadcast, but then tell them they can't show the thing they've paid for on Saturday at 3pm, how many games is that broadcaster going to leave on a Saturday at 3pm? "We've paid to be able to show 552 Championship games, either live or on a Soccer Saturday-style clip show, but don't worry we're going to leave 200 of those in a slot where we can't do either of those things."
If you were them you'd just shift the whole programme to Sunday, just for a start.
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 19:11 - Mar 30 with 2248 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 18:18 - Mar 30 by Northernr
I'm coming round to the idea that if they don't drop the 'blackout' (which isn't even a blackout anyway because of the streaming now) then it's going to kill the thing you're trying to protect. If you put every single EFL game on the table for a broadcaster to buy and broadcast, but then tell them they can't show the thing they've paid for on Saturday at 3pm, how many games is that broadcaster going to leave on a Saturday at 3pm? "We've paid to be able to show 552 Championship games, either live or on a Soccer Saturday-style clip show, but don't worry we're going to leave 200 of those in a slot where we can't do either of those things."
If you were them you'd just shift the whole programme to Sunday, just for a start.
Wonder if they switched the kick off times to 3 01 pm would it circumnavigate the rules as sometimes Law can be that pedantic
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 23:53 - Mar 30 with 2095 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 07:38 - Mar 31 by Rangersw12
I think the attendances would be even less ifthey tried to move the games to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday etc
As Clive has said you can watch every game now anyway so it's about time the fans who go know majority of games will be at 3 pm
There is no doubt it will affect attendances but the option is pretty much there now for midweek games in the EFL and although there has been a drop I'm not sure it's been a massive one
It will likely to be more away fans who give it a miss rather than home ones on a Saturday
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 11:27 - Mar 31 with 1824 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 09:43 - Mar 31 by daveB
There is no doubt it will affect attendances but the option is pretty much there now for midweek games in the EFL and although there has been a drop I'm not sure it's been a massive one
It will likely to be more away fans who give it a miss rather than home ones on a Saturday
Especially when there's train strikes and the team has given up.
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:50 - Mar 31 with 1707 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:32 - Mar 30 by R_from_afar
Available in North Korea!
I can't wait to learn what Pyongyang Hoop's favourite cheese is
Available if you’re prepared to risk execution. They kill people for watching tv shows from the South so I can’t imagine their reaction to watching anything from the West would be any less hysterical. Much as I love the Rangers I wouldn’t be prepared to risk a firing squad for watching QPR+!
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 15:10 - Mar 31 with 1658 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 14:50 - Mar 31 by johnhoop
Available if you’re prepared to risk execution. They kill people for watching tv shows from the South so I can’t imagine their reaction to watching anything from the West would be any less hysterical. Much as I love the Rangers I wouldn’t be prepared to risk a firing squad for watching QPR+!
Some of our recent games , I think I would prefer to face the firing squad
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 16:09 - Apr 3 with 1391 views
Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 16:09 - Apr 3 by Northernr
EFL announces they’ve evaluated all the offers and have now entered a month-long exclusive negotiations with the preferred bidder…
Sky Sports.
If they wanted to make money they should do the NFL gamepass model I mentioned above. Or do they think that Sky would pay them more than 72 teams (and a cup) worth of fans?
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Next EFL TV deal - some good news, some alarming news on 18:06 - Apr 3 with 1228 views
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