New TV Deal ??

[Biggles]

The NLP is supposed to have a story about a new TV deal close to being agreed starting this September.

The Channel is Premier Sports who show sports that have a good following but are not on mainstream TV.

[BartonRaz]

I noticed that channel the other day. It seems to show a lot of American and Irish stuff.

[Mad Dog]

Interesting. If this does happen, I'd be interested to learn what day of the week they will show the games on.

[DiamondsR4ever]

What Channel no. is it ?>

[Mad Dog]

Sky 433 according to their website.

I'm interested in if it will be available on Virgin.

[coolcuts]

£6.99 a month. And going to show 30 games. Not worth it is it? I mean its not like premiership were every game is good. And will be interesting to see how fair they would be to clubs or to just have the top 5 teams versus whoever

[Three of Diamonds]

£6.99 a month. And going to show 30 games. Not worth it is it? I mean its not like premiership were every game is good. And will be interesting to see how fair they would be to clubs or to just have the top 5 teams versus whoever

£6.99 for roughly 3 games in a month is "not worth it" ? I agree about the last bit, everyone should be shown at least once, and not concentrate on the "big teams" cos they'll get more of the money!

[Formic]

It's worth listening to the Non-League Show Podcast regarding this. It looks like an announcement might be made in the day couple of days.

The information regarding the deal seems to be coming from a Journalist at the moment - who suggests the games will be on a Thursday night, and little / no revenue will come to the clubs. At the same time there will be no publicity for the clubs, as it will be on a channel nobody watches (it normally shows Gaelic Football as its main sport).

The journalist also suggested there was a possible BBC deal (which may have been last season rather than this) for a highlights package, but that wasn't satisfactory to the Conference board. You'll need to listen to the journalist to decide if he sounds like he really knows what is going on - the BBC journalist and pundits on the Non-League show hadn't heard of this alleged possible deal.

Either way, a Thursday night approach will have the same implications on disrupting fans schedules - even those whose games aren't shown, but their Saturday game gets moved to a Sunday as ours did several times with the Setanta deal.

[Three of Diamonds]

http://www.broadcasting.vitalfootball.c ... ?a=7505416

Looks like a 3 year deal has been sorted out.

[Superhans]

http://www.broadcasting.vitalfootball.c ... ?a=7505416

Looks like a 3 year deal has been sorted out.

so they have sold it to a chanel thats only avilable for sky customers. :x